There wasn’t a definite way to break the Marquess’s surveillance magic. However, I couldn’t just sit back and do nothing. All magic would inevitably end when the amount of infused magic was depleted, and surveillance magic would be no exception. Although Marquess’s magic would be substantial, it wasn’t infinite. I quickly closed all the curtains of the windows. In an instant, the room became pitch dark, leaving only a faint light to barely discern objects.
This was a one-time opportunity. Trying to deceive the Marquess for a second time would likely be impossible.
“Lady! I brought a book! It’s the one on the second shelf, far left corner, in the library’s west corner, right?”
Eliza entered with a book in her hands.
“Yeah, thanks.”
Eliza handed me the book with a proud expression. I opened the book and held it up.
“Eliza, go over there and read it.”
Following my gesture, Eliza took a few steps back. She frowned and tried to read the writing.
“Oh, I can’t see anything. It’s so dark in here. Let me open the curtain and read it again.”
Eliza headed towards the window to open the curtain, but I quickly stopped her.
“No, leave it as it is.”
Then, pretending to be conscious of the Marquess’s surveillance, I roamed around the room, glancing nervously.
“If you can’t see the writing, it’s fine.”
I closed the book and went towards the bed.
“I’ll rest now, Eliza. Can you leave? I need some rest.”
I lay quietly on the bed until Eliza left the room. However, as soon as Eliza’s footsteps faded away, I got up and quietly approached the desk.
“It won’t be visible in this darkness.”
I chuckled maliciously while opening the book.
The pressure on my head became stronger.
By now, the Marquess would be crazy curious about the content of this seemingly ordinary romance novel. I pretended to make a big deal out of it, as if deliberately hiding it from the Marquess by closing the curtains and instructing Eliza to read.
As I flipped through the pages, the pressure intensified, and my head felt like it was about to explode.
“Yeah, this is it.”
I muttered as I pretended to read each line with my finger.
Since all magic would end when the amount of infused magic was depleted, how could I make this magical operation, like watching a low-resolution video, consume the most amount of magic? It would require more magic to read a small-print book in dim lighting through surveillance magic, similar to the extra effort needed to watch a high-resolution video. And even the great Marquess, with her incredible magic, didn’t have an infinite amount of magic.
The pain echoed through my bones, but I kept muttering.
“If only I have this…”
A dreadful ringing added to the agony. Tears streamed down, and the pain was excruciating, yet I continued my act.
“This is the…”
It felt as if someone was striking my head with an axe. However, I composed my indifferent expression, pretending to earnestly read the smallest footnote.
“The Marquess’s secret…!”
Right before passing out, the pain vanished as if it were a lie. The ringing in my ears also ceased abruptly, as if cut off.
It was a success.
“Marquess.”
The servant in charge of surveillance knocked on the Marquess’s study again, holding a mana stone.
“What’s the matter?”
The Marquess put down her pen.
“Has Lord or Lady appeared again?”
“No.”
As the Marquess frowned, the servant quickly added,
“But the surveillance target seems to be reading a suspicious book. They even blocked the light, as if trying to prevent us from seeing.”
The Marquess immediately took the mana stone.
The small screen was entirely dark. Concentrating, I could vaguely make out the appearance of a commoner in the dim light.
“Yeah, this is it.”
The commoner was mumbling while seemingly reading a book. However, the writing on the book was not visible in the faint light.
“If only I have this…”
As if having discovered a tremendous secret, the commoner read the book.
The Marquess enlarged the screen on the mana stone several times. However, the small print melted into the darkness, making it entirely unrecognizable.
“This is the…”
Upon zooming in a bit more, the faint outline of the writing started to become visible.
“The Marquess’s secret…!”
The Marquess focused all her mana on the mana stone.
Only then did the writing become visible. The Marquess swallowed her breath and began reading.
“I am tired now, Robert. Let’s stop this…”
And the screen went black.
I quietly left the room.
Passing through the corridor towards Kellian’s room, when I knocked on the door, there was no response. Suppressing my rudeness, I slightly opened the door, but no one was inside.
“Where could he be?”
As I was thinking about where to go in the hallway, explosions rang out several times from outside.
“The training ground.”
I immediately started running unsteadily.
Although I struggled a bit to escape the mansion, avoiding the eyes of the servants, strangely, as I got closer to the training ground, the surroundings became eerily quiet.
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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