“W-What are you saying?”
Margaret raised her head roughly.
Truly a similar scene. Witnessing her deliberately feigning ignorance, though knowing exactly what I meant, I couldn’t help but sneer involuntarily.
“Your child has never changed even once. From the beginning till now, it’s just been your child.”
“…….”
“Isn’t it interesting? A single lie changed so much.”
Just like you did.
I laughed, but Margaret couldn’t.
I gently brushed Margaret’s cheek with my hand, which now held a thin rope.
“It must have been fun mocking with three tongues. You probably never dreamed that you might get it back the same way.”
“Do you think I’ll believe your words?”
“Believe it or not, it’s your choice, but the child is different.”
Even if she tries to deny it, it’s futile. The wavering eyes reveal uncertainty.
I scornfully pursed my lips.
“Don’t touch the child.”
“What about you? My daughter is dead in your hands?”
“…….”
“If you knew how precious my child is, you should have thought the same about others’ children.”
Even the pulsation transmitted through the palm felt repulsive. I couldn’t accept the fact of breathing itself.
But not yet. The emotions of a single moment couldn’t overturn the long wait.
I forcibly held back the hand that kept wanting to exert force and spoke again.
“Thank you for working hard. Thanks to the information you prepared, dealing with your child will be easier.”
“…Who’s taking whose child into custody?”
“It’s my husband’s child. I’ll be the one raising it.”
“Don’t talk nonsense! Do you think I’ll tolerate such a thing?”
“Silence is golden.”
I only applied a bit of pressure to her hand, and the previously noisy Margaret suddenly fell silent.
Her pale face was tinged with the fear of the imminent death.
Yet, she had a long way to go before facing the terror she still needed to discover.
“Even if you write an unreasonable accusation, even if your life has been unjust, you can’t even utter a word of excuse. Just like those who left before.”
What I needed to remember wasn’t just Meriel.
Because of this woman, I lost a lot. And, I lost everything that could never be recovered.
That fact was the most agonizing.
Even if I tore that body apart until nothing was left, the day wouldn’t come when I could hold my daughter again.
This was all I could do in the end.
“If I could, I’d want to kill you right now.”
“……. ”
“No, that’s not enough. At this moment, I feel like stripping off your flesh one by one and letting you be devoured by wild beasts wouldn’t be satisfying enough.”
It wasn’t genuine. The extent to which I wanted to gruesomely and painfully kill the woman in front of me couldn’t be adequately expressed in words.
“Back then, I couldn’t do it, right? Now[Dash].”
“It’s not that you couldn’t, but that you didn’t.”
“……. ”
“Did you really think you could easily die after killing my daughter?”
“I will torment you until you beg me to kill you. I will trample on every part of your body and soul without forgetting a thing. I will make you regret your lifetime of sins without ever having a moment of hope.”
For this reason, I turned around and came this far.
“Your child will be Crayton’s successor. But only up to that point. Dirty bloodlines can’t be connected to Crayton. We should use it appropriately and discard it when it’s no longer useful.”
“Dirty bloodlines? Careless talk about my pierced mouth[Dash].”
“On the day you abandon the child, I’ll whisper to you. Your ruined life is all because of your parents.”
“What, what?”
“The child will live resenting its parents for a lifetime, just like you did. All the things you found horrifying will be passed down. And you’ll witness that moment.”
Right here.
Tak, deliberately extending its front paw, made a sound with its shoe heels. The small room made the sound of the heels louder as it echoed more than usual.
But that wouldn’t matter. Since I cleared away the lantern I brought, light wouldn’t penetrate this place. In this space swallowed by darkness, the size of the room wasn’t important.
And Margaret already realized that.
I mocked Margaret and then picked up the lantern I had placed on the floor.
Didn’t I swear? I have no intention of bringing Margaret out until I hear the answers I want.
The room wasn’t merely confined to physical space. The room had already taken root in her mind. As long as she knew the fear of darkness, Margaret couldn’t help but shake even in front of a small lantern.
As if to prove that certainty, the back became noisy with just a few steps I took without hesitation.
“D-Don’t go!”
“……. ”
“……Please, don’t do this.”
“Don’t do this?”
“I was all wrong. Of course, my doing this won’t relieve your feelings, but I[Dash].”
“If that’s the case, then speak.”
“……. ”
If she hesitated over there, I wouldn’t.
As I took a few more steps without hesitation, the desperate Margaret opened her mouth.
“T-That was an accident!”
“An accident?”
“I never had thoughts of killing her!”
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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