I apologize for riding the brown horse up until now, but Shephy was incomparably faster.
Asha’s eyes widened in joy, and she let out a childlike laugh.
The surrounding trees whizzed by at an unseeable speed, and the cold wind struck her face sharply, but she wasn’t scared at all; instead, she felt a reassuring sensation.
She felt a stability as if she would never fall off this back.
Eventually, they arrived at a cliff covered in clouds and fog, as if a hermit resided there.
Jackal took deep breaths, inhaling the fresh air as he steadied his ragged breathing.
This was a place he would often visit alone when he was lost in thought.
When he looked down at the scenery from here, it felt like he was in another world.
When spring came, colorful flowers bloomed in this white space covered with snow and fog.
Compared to that, the scenery now seemed desolate, but it was still beautiful enough to be called a scenic spot.
It was perfect for a date.
Jackal’s face turned red at the thought of a date, but he confidently took a step forward, thinking she would surely like it.
But seeing him approach the cliff without hesitation, Asha’s face rapidly turned pale.
“ShShephy, stop…!”
Jackal approached the edge of the cliff to get a better view of the lush clouds, but Asha remembered that day, and suddenly felt nauseous, her head spinning.
Asha closed her eyes tightly and clung to Shephy’s neck.
Only then did Jackal stop in his tracks, his eyes widening.
He felt her slender body trembling as she buried her face in his neck.
“Shephy… I, I don’t like it here… Let’s go back… Okay?”
At Asha’s trembling voice, Jackal guessed something, and his blue eyes cooled down.
He had never thought that when she regressed to the past while fleeing from the emperor, she had jumped off a cliff.
Imagining the damned tyrant driving her to the brink of the cliff, he involuntarily gritted his teeth.
Jackal quickly moved away from the cliff to make her feel safe.
It wasn’t until the cliff was completely out of sight that Asha, swaying, got down from the back.
Seeing her face covered in cold sweat, Jackal sent her an apologetic look.
He had brought her out to cheer her up, but it seemed he had given her the worst experience instead.
He was saddened that the memory with Shephy would remain as a bad one.
Was he unintentionally looking downcast? Asha, with her pale face, forced a smile and stroked his mane.
“I’m sorry… It must have been a magnificent view, and you wanted to show it to me, but I have bad memories of cliffs…”
Jackal seemed to understand, closing his eyes with a ‘poof’ and then opening them.
Asha softly stroked his nose and forehead in gratitude.
But just then, a horn’s sound suddenly came from afar, and Jackal sharply turned his head to look somewhere.
Asha also murmured in surprise.
“That sound is the patrol’s horn…”
The fact that she remembered the sound of the patrol’s horn surprised Jackal once again internally.
But now was not the time to be surprised at leisure.
Soon, a brown hawk flew over, fluttering, looking for a place to land, and eventually settled lightly on Jackal’s nose.
It was a message to the captain, but Asha, not knowing that Shephy was Jackal, thought it was a letter for her and untied the note tied to its leg.
Inside was hastily scribbled writing, along with bloodstains.
[Eastern ravine, bandit raid. Requesting support G]
G was the abbreviation for Geb.
Now that I see it, this falcon was the one that Gev usually raised. He often wore the falcon proudly on his shoulder as an accessory.
Asha thought she must notify Jackal immediately, but it seemed that if she went back now, in the deep mountains, the support would be greatly delayed.
She made a determined expression, tied a note to the falcon’s leg, and sent it into the sky.
Then she clapped her hands and shouted to the flying falcon.
“Tell Mr. Jackal or Mr. Sosa!”
After sending the falcon, Asha immediately sprang onto the back of Shepi.
Jackal, who had been seriously contemplating turning back into a human, looked back in surprise at Asha mounted on his back.
Asha stroked his mane and said seriously,
“Shepi, let’s go and help.”
Jackal shook his head right away at the reckless talk, but Asha calmly said,
“It’s okay. Trust me.”
Asha touched the bow on her back with a determined face.
Jackal couldn’t believe that she, who could not even shoot at an animal, could shoot at a human.
So he hesitated, but suddenly the wind rose from Asha’s hand holding the reins, and it gently swept his mane.
“…Let’s go, Shepi.”
The moment it felt like an irresistible command, Jackal was already running like mad.
[This is the time separator]Heading to the place the falcon informed them of, from afar, Gev and a few patrolmen were seen surrounded by a band of mountain bandits.
Gev was slumped on the ground, powerless, with a streak of blood running down his forehead.
His leg looked uncomfortable, as if he’d been hit by an arrow.
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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