“혹, 혹시 일행입니까?”
“…….”
“No! It seems I mistook the person. I apologize.”
The maids quickly gave up and left.
“Come on, let’s go. Come here. Quickly.”
Their abandonment was quicker than expected.
Charlotte realized the reason for their departure soon enough.
The scent of blood is strong. The wound crossing the palm was not yet completely healed.
He turned his body slightly. Charlotte knew him well.
‘Wastrel Benjamin Visennov’
Called a scoundrel for killing even his family and relatives, and later becoming one of the five great emperors, establishing the most powerful imperial power.
In the world, there was also an opinion that Benjamin could not ascend to the throne because his supporting forces were weak.
The world’s opinion was half right and half wrong.
Though his force was indeed weak, he had killed his family and relatives to ascend the throne himself.
“Let go of your dress.”
Benjamin looked down at her and reached out. His hand clasped her thin wrist.
“Did you come here alone without fear?”
He detached Charlotte’s hand with a light gesture. There was no caution even when dealing with Charlotte, whom he was seeing for the first time.
‘Why?’
Benjamin spoke as if he already knew Charlotte.
“Isn’t Windsor a human?”
“……Can you see that?”
Benjamin reached out and took off her shawl.
“It would be more surprising if someone didn’t recognize it with that red hair……”
The red hair flowed and writhed down. Charlotte only realized it after clutching a handful of her hair.
Charlotte had the thick blood of Windsor mixed within her. The red hair that flowed down to her waist was proof of that.
“Your guardian is coming. Don’t wander around and go home.”
Benjamin left her with just those words.
Charlotte dropped her outstretched hand. As she turned her back, a maid sent from Windsor was running from the alley. It was Becky, the maid that Aster had assigned as her companion.
“Miss! You gave me quite a fright! What if you suddenly disappear from sight?”
When Charlotte turned her head again, Benjamin had disappeared.
It felt like she was mesmerized.
Charlotte stood blankly, gazing beyond the alleyway. No one was there. Even his presence had disappeared.
“What are you doing here all alone, Miss?”
“I thought I saw someone, but I must have been mistaken.”
Charlotte looked down at her bouquet.
Holding it tightly, the stems of the chrysanthemums were bent.
“Has he disappeared?”
She just brushed her hair silently.
(This is a time separator.)
“Why did you put out your palm like that? The skin is all tattered. At this rate, you could cut off the wrist. Have you crushed it as you please?”
“Shut your mouth.”
Benjamin cut off the babbling guy. He had clearly torn it very raggedly.
“The Empress stepped on my tail and almost cut it off, my wrist.”
The emperor was bedridden, and the imperial palace had descended into chaos.
Despite lying in bed, the emperor did not let go of his power, and, burying his head under the empress’s dress, it was needless to explain how miserable the situation had become.
“Why is that arm torn again? Before inheriting the throne, it seems that life thread will be critical, is it an unnecessary worry? That arm looks like a wet piece of paper. Have you torn it raggedly to throw it away?”
“How about keeping quiet and just dying?”
Roscera, with his biting words, handed over a bandage to Benjamin, who clicked his tongue.
He was a scribe who collected information inside and outside the imperial palace. Despite being dressed neatly, his words were harsh.
Roscera found a random bandage and handed it over. When they lit a candle to look, the wound was deeper than expected.
Benjamin began to wrap the bandage but then recalled the woman he had just seen.
Her red dress skirt flickered before his eyes. A plain dress without lace, which might have looked more dismal.
A languid sense of dread enveloped him. Sticky mudlike things seemed to pull him down to the ground.
“Did Windsor’s duke have other family members besides two sons?”
“Cozette Windsor, there was another daughter of Duke Leandro. But I understand that the funeral was held a week ago. I assume there are no other family members, aside from cousins or such.”
Benjamin Visennov waved his hand dismissively.
“Since the two of you have no children, it’s fair to say the direct bloodline has almost ended.”
(This is a time separator.)
The morning to bury Mother’s urn had dawned.
Charlotte stood in front of the gravestone and tomb, tossing a chrysanthemum flower down to the grave.
“Farewell, Mother.”
This would be the last goodbye to her mother.
She captured the sight of the urn being buried again in her eyes. Her bloodshot eyes gently closed.
I’ll remember everything. I’ll keep each one in my two eyes. I’ll etch it in my mind, chewing it over.
She placed the chrysanthemum on the urn. Then the servants sprinkled dirt over the urn.
“Farewell.”
The urn was completely buried. Her dry gaze followed the traces of her mother buried under the dirt.
“Are you alright?”
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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