Helena had not expected this question, so Lisi took a moment to gather her thoughts.
Helena and Wyvern waited quietly for Lisi’s response.
“Mother, Father, as you see fit.”
“Really, is that alright? If I get comfortable, I could get too comfortable.”
“Absolutely. But Mother, you don’t have to fight for me. I’ll handle the battles.”
“Then what can I do for you?”
“Just….”
Lisi remembered her past life, this fine old couple was caught up in a horrible incident and died.
And how much pain their two sons must have endured after their deaths.
“Please, just stay healthy, as you are now.”
Lisi said, looking straight at Helena and Wyvern.
It could sound like a casual remark to some. But Helena felt a lump in her chest for some reason. It was because the sincerity in Lisi’s light purple eyes was conveyed.
There are people like that.
People you can’t grow fond of, no matter how long you look at and meet them.
And there are also people like that.
People who you’re drawn to and fond of, even after only a few conversations.
To Helena, Lisi was the latter.
Lisi was appealing to her, looking fresh and frail but unexpectedly strong, with a lonely look in her eyes that brightens up when she smiles.
If Wyvern saw ‘the eyes of a warrior’ in Lisi, Helena discovered a ‘small animal that’s hurt but somehow trying to survive.’
It stirred Helena’s maternal instincts.
“Lisi, you said you received a unicorn as a gift?”
Wyvern broke the silence between Helena and Lisi.
“Yes, but how to tame it…”
“Name it, Lisi. Everything becomes real once it’s named.”
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Lisi headed to the stable.
‘Name. What should I name it?’
She tried to come up with a name following Wyvern’s advice, but all Lisi could think of was ‘White.’
‘I shouldn’t have made fun of K’s naming sense.’
As Lisi tried to enter the unicorn’s pen, the stable keeper looked worried.
“Countess. It could be dangerous.”
“It’s okay. I won’t get too close.”
“You must never go beyond the fence. Do you understand?”
Only after receiving several warnings was she allowed to enter the unicorn pen.
Inside the pen, there was a chesthigh fence, and the door to the fence, which had been open in the morning, was firmly closed.
When Lisi entered, White pricked up its ears, and the baby unicorn came close to the fence.
The baby unicorn stared at Lisi with its big, shiny black eyes.
It was so cute that she unconsciously reached out her hand.
Thud!
Luckily, she pulled her hand away before the unicorn could bite her.
‘That was surprising.’
That was a close call.
“Baby. I won’t hurt you.”
“Humph!”
The baby unicorn snorted. It seems to understand what I’m saying, it’s smart.
The baby unicorn turned around and kicked the floor with its hind legs.
The straw and sand on the floor flew up to Lisi’s dress.
“You, you’re really naughty.”
“Hehe!”
The baby unicorn didn’t stop kicking.
Unable to watch any longer, White nudged the baby unicorn’s waist with its nose.
Finally, the baby unicorn that stopped kicking dug into White’s embrace.
Naughty but cute.
“I need to name you, what name do you think would be good?”
She asked, knowing that no answer would come.
“How about Whitedong?”
Upon hearing the voice from behind, Lisi, without realizing it, turned around with a smile.
K had come up behind Lisi without her noticing.
“That name has already been rejected.”
“Who suggested such a creative name?”
“Erwell.”
“Oh, Erwell.”
K chuckled as if he thought of something.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Just thinking of Erwell… no, it’s nothing.”
He was laughing while thinking about Erwell.
Thinking about that made her feel somehow bad.
“Here.”
K poked Lisi’s forehead with his index finger.
“Why are you frowning, Lisi?”
“I just like to frown here.”
“I doubt it.”
K pulled Lisi close with one arm around her waist. He pressed his solid thigh against her and asked subtly.
“You don’t like it when I think of and laugh at other women, do you?”
“Why would I dislike that? What you think and laugh at is up to you.”
She stubbornly tried to push away from K’s chest, but he didn’t let go of Lisi.
“Your lips look oddly pursed, don’t they?”
As Lisi rolled her lips inward, Kevrant chuckled.
“Do you do that on purpose?”
“What?”
With her lips tucked in, her pronunciation became strange.
“This cuteness. Are you doing it deliberately to make me unable to resist?”
“No way.”
“But it seems deliberately cute.”
“Can cuteness be deliberate? I really don’t…”
She tried to push Kevrant’s chest away again, but Kevrant’s lips were faster.
He overlaid his lips on Lisi’s and gently sucked on her lower lip.
As always, her mind went blank when his lips touched hers.
The sweet dizziness filled the emptiness, but Lisi barely clung to her senses and pushed Kevrant’s chest with both hands.
Kevrant, who had released her lips, leaned his forehead against hers and spoke.
“Why are you so resistant today?”
“The child is watching.”
“A child?”
Lisi pointed to a baby unicorn with her squirming fingers.
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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