The two uncles marveled at the received handkerchiefs.
“Clearly, there’s no skill in embroidery. Your mother also had no handiwork. Don’t be too discouraged.”
“Aster, you don’t hold back with your niece, do you?”
As Charlotte tied the knot tightly, Cesar fondled the scabbard with a profound expression.
“When did you prepare this?”
“I had it prepared since a few days before the hunting contest.”
Both remained silent, fondling the handkerchiefs.
There was one more handkerchief left besides the two given. It was Benjamin’s share.
“Do you have game you want?”
“I feel like I’m going to lose it all to His Highness anyway?”
As Charlotte laughed in response, Cesar’s expression became strange.
“They released a rare bluebird in the hunting grounds. Shall I catch it for you?”
“If the opportunity arises. Don’t overdo it in the deep parts of the forest.”
The light conversation ended here. The two uncles were busy inspecting the knights.
The hunting grounds were generally chaotic.
“They released a black wolf in the hunting grounds, have you heard?”
“Its physique is said to be twice as big as a normal wolf?”
“It’s not just the black wolf. They also released a black leopard and a white leopard, so manage your life well. Make sure you don’t get your throat bitten by the prey.”
This hunting ground was filled with rare game.
Black wolves, black leopards, and white leopards, as well as white badgers, red badgers, white tigers, and black tigers were there.
Small rodents like badgers were at the entrance, leopards in the middle, and wolves and tigers were to be in the deep parts of the forest.
Especially with black bears that inhabit the Fontlia forest, it was easy to become bear food if you went to the deep parts with a careless heart.
“It’s harsh.”
Charlotte covered her lips and chuckled. Aster smiled in reply.
“To live and die by ambition is a knight. Are you going back to the barracks like this?”
“There’s one more handkerchief left. Let me take care of it.”
Across from her, Benjamin turned his head. Their eyes met in midair.
“I’ll also go to His Highness.”
Benjamin was dressed in red uniform. A white cape hung on the badge embroidered with the royal emblem.
From head to toe, he was ostentatious, but since it was a formal event, he stood with a can’tbehelped expression.
He spotted Charlotte and her party and immediately approached.
“Don’t you have something for me?”
“What is it?”
“Think hard. You have something for me. If you don’t, there’s no way to hide the deep disappointment in Windsor…”
Charlotte took Benjamin’s wrist and hid in a place where people were scarce. It was relatively quiet behind the barracks.
“Charl.”
Benjamin glanced down at his caught wrist, then overlapped his hand.
“When are you going to hold on?”
“The hunting contest is about to start.”
“So you’re not saying you want to go hand in hand with me.”
Benjamin pulled his wrist free. The hand that gently embraced and pushed away his wrist was smooth.
His gesture was light, and the emotion in his expression was indifferent.
Benjamin fixed his sword on his uniform trousers and hung one arm on it. In such a posture, he slowly sized up Charlotte.
“Where did you leave the crossbow?”
“I left it with Katarina for a moment.”
Benjamin fiddled with the sword at his waist, probing.
“Have you practiced the crossbow?”
“Yes. I’m more or less familiar with how to use it.”
“More or less won’t do.”
His warning was firm.
“When you pull the trigger with the feeling of hitting the head of someone you hate, be bold.”
“…What feeling of hitting what?”
Benjamin subtly touched Charlotte’s cheek.
“What game shall I bring you? I don’t like hunting contests, but it’s okay if you’re there. I’ll bring the game to you.”
“What are you saying…”
“Wait. Charl.”
Benjamin touched Charlotte’s neck with his cheek. Shallow breaths touched and scattered on her neck.
Charlotte stuttered, and Benjamin turned his head to meet her eyes.
Their gazes met at close range.
A strange breath flowed, and Benjamin whispered in her ear.
“Then you will be the queen of the hunting contest. Charl.”
Benjamin softly stroked her red hair and murmured…
“Stop it……. Benjamin, it tickles.”
“It seems you’re very ticklish.”
“What can I do if I’m breathing right into your ear?”
“Charlotte is gentle.”
“I have something to give you. Just a moment.”
Charlotte took out the last remaining handkerchief and laid it on Benjamin’s palm.
“You embroidered this yourself?”
“…….”
“You have such poor skill, Charlotte.”
Benjamin looked at the embroidery on the handkerchief and smiled slightly.
“Did they tell you to pull the trigger as if you were aiming at someone you hate?”
Charlotte looked back at Katarina and said,
“Katarina, bring the crossbow.”
“Charlotte, that’s treason.”
Benjamin lightly touched her wrist.
“Tie it yourself.”
Charlotte tied the handkerchief to Benjamin’s sword hilt.
(This is a time separator.)
The hunting ground was quiet. The knights and nobles had gone hunting.
“Everyone’s gone.”
“They’ll be back soon.”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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