“Kevrant Green? Really, that Earl Green? The Guardian of the Holy Relic?”
Britney’s eyes flashed wide open.
The moment she heard the name Kevrant Green, she forgot everything about what Rishi had been saying about their father.
“Yes, that’s right. He came a while ago and is currently in the drawing room with the duke.”
“What did he come for?”
“I eavesdropped a little, and he entered the drawing room saying something about the grace of the Duke… His voice was low so I couldn’t hear clearly…”
“The Duke’s grace? Me? He must be talking about me?”
“Of course. Who else could it be?”
Britney’s face turned beet red.
Kevrant was currently the most popular man in society.
The family of the Guardian of the Holy Relic was under the protection of the Holy Kingdom, and even the emperor couldn’t easily approach them. Despite his title of earl, he held power equivalent to a duke.
But the family was a secondary issue. What was important was Kevrant’s appearance.
He was literally beautiful. With broad shoulders, a slender waist, a tall stature, and long legs, he had been praised as a statue created by God at his best.
His messy black hair, as if unattended, and the bluegray eyes beneath his thick eyebrows, were so impressive that you would feel breathless just by touching them.
The red lips below his perfectly shaped nose were moist and tempting, and numerous women had fantasized about his lips touching their skin.
The aristocratic young ladies wanted to become Kevrant’s wife, and the matrons drooled over the thought of having Kevrant as a lover.
However, Kevrant, the earl of the Holy Kingdom, was upright and contrary to his decadent appearance, there was never a scandal involving women.
“In fact, at the last party, Earl Green asked me to dance with him.”
It was true that they danced, but it wasn’t Kevrant who asked for the dance.
Britney had cautiously approached him and asked him to dance, and Kevrant accepted only because it wasn’t polite to refuse a lady’s dance.
However, in Britney’s memory, the event was beautified, and it turned into Kevrant desperately asking her to dance.
“We had a lot of conversation while dancing….”
“Maybe that’s it, miss. Perhaps he fell for you then.”
The maid quickly said what Britney wanted to hear.
“I guess that’s what happened?”
“Of course. You’re so beautiful, miss. Plus, you’re a wonderful dancer. Which man wouldn’t fall for you?”
“What should I do if he proposes to me?”
“How do you feel, miss? Do you like Earl Green?”
“I’m not sure.”
She was actually crazy about him.
“We only had a conversation for the first time then… But since he came all the way here, I should meet him nicely and have more talks.”
“This isn’t the time for that. You should go and change your dress right away.”
“That’s right, that’s right. I should do that.”
Britney, as if forgetting about Rishi’s existence altogether, left the room with the maid and the housemaids who had been serving Rishi.
Rishi picked up the fallen corset and stared at it quietly before flinging it to the side.
She didn’t even glance at the dress that she should have worn to show Alford, and picked up the clothes that had been draped over the chair.
An old dress a bit better than what the housemaids wore.
After putting on the dress, Rishi stood in front of the mirror.
The hair that had been styled and secured to match the dress outfit did not match with the dress.
Rishi removed one pin after another that had secured her hair.
Her silver hair, which looked pink with a red glow, slid down her neck.
Rishi roughly brushed her disheveled hair with her fingers and then smiled broadly.
She looked better than ever.
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Duke Groban Witlow looked at Kevrant with a perplexed expression.
“That girl?”
“That girl, you say. When you talk about Britney, you say our daughter, but it seems Iris is not our daughter.”
The slow words that seemed to know the situation of the Witlow family made Groban swallow his saliva.
When Kevrant said,
“I came because I want to form a relationship with the Witlow family.”
He thought he was talking about a military or economic alliance.
“Your grace’s youngest daughter is so beautiful….”
When Kevrant let the words flow like that, he naturally thought he was talking about Britney.
It was because Britney, who had attended a party a while ago, had been making a fuss about how Earl Green had asked her to dance.
Even though he was from the declining Witlow family, bearing the title of a Duke, Kevrant of the Green family, the guardian of the Holy Relic, was a man many found quite desirable.
But since it was heard that he had no interest in anything other than the Holy Relic, any thoughts of attempting it had been given up on.
When such a Kevrant came of his own accord, babbling about the princess, it was thought of as an opportunity.
“I wish to spend my lifetime with Miss Iris.”
Until Kevrant said those words.
Never in dreams was it thought that the one Kevrant was after would be Iris.
Iris, under the pretext of being ‘a daughter to raise carefully’, was not sent to parties.
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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