There was no way he could not be seen if he moved normally.
Glancing around, I discovered the back of the gardener, walking away as if fleeing.
“……Huh.”
I was baffled.
He must have crouched and run away as soon as he saw me because he was afraid of the wicked Ellen, but wasn’t that a bit too much?
“How despicable.”
“Shall I catch him?”
Although I was talking to myself, I heard a response from a strange man behind me.
‘Eek?’
Startled, I turned around to find a handsome knight with a height of about 185 centimeters, his long red curly hair tied back.
“Who, who are you?”
Oops. My heart pounding, I inadvertently asked.
If he shows any suspicion, I must angrily leave this place.
Ellen will just gloss over it anyway, being as capricious as she is.
However, he sighed softly and bowed respectfully.
“I am Irugob Mild, who has been guarding you since you were ten.”
His calm green eyes met mine.
“You’ve promised not to make such jokes anymore, haven’t you?”
It seems Ellen has made such jokes before. Relieved but embarrassed, I waved my hand dismissively.
“How boring.”
The knight’s reaction was a single blink of an eye, so it must have been an acceptable answer.
I must now leave this place quickly. But the knight was following me closely.
“Why are you following?”
“That’s because I am your loyal shadow.”
Shadow?
Only then did I remember that Ellen had a shadow knight in the novel.
At the same time, I remembered his fate.
When Ellen, who had incurred King Marlboro’s wrath, was taken to the execution ground, he resisted in vain and was killed by Philip’s sword.
His name was mentioned at first but was then always referred to as Ellen’s shadow.
‘An extra’s life…… His name was Mild, wasn’t it?’
I felt like cheering for an ally. However, now I had to act like Ellen, so I spoke coldly and haughtily.
“I want to be alone.”
He took a step back, looking quite familiar with this behavior.
I leisurely wandered the rose garden again, thinking about Ellen’s life.
‘Ellen tormented her son’s wife, then was executed, right?’
The decisive trigger was Ellen sending a dress gift to celebrate Laila’s pregnancy.
To anyone’s eye, the affectionate congratulatory message made Laila believe that her motherinlaw had changed.
Her husband, Marlboro, had become the king, and she herself had become the queen.
On the other hand, Ellen had been divorced by Philip and even lost her homeland to a war with a neighboring country.
Thus, Ellen had no power at that time.
As such, Laila understood Ellen’s gift as a plea to forget the past and to be kind.
That was all fine.
Until it was revealed that the dye Ellen used for the dress was the cursed blood of a poisonous snake.
Because of that, Laila falls seriously ill from mental shock and even loses the child in her womb.
It goes without saying that King Marlboro was extremely furious.
“The consequence was wearing an iron mermaid dress that had been heated redhot.”
At the time, the wicked woman’s end was laughed at, but thinking back, it was a serious crisis.
[This is the time separator]Upon opening my eyes, it was the same ceiling I saw yesterday.
I took a deep breath and got up from the soft bed.
“Ugh, my back.”
A groan escaped naturally.
It was only natural that lying in even the best bed for a week straight would make your back feel sore.
Anyway.
The two things I had done the most while I had been determined to wait and see for a few days were:
First, I kept sleeping.
When I woke up after sleeping, I found myself possessed, and I wondered if the same method would bring me back.
But that didn’t happen.
The other thing was tormenting the maids.
I would take out my anger on the maids who woke me, picking fights and digging for necessary information.
About things like my origins or property that hadn’t appeared in the novel.
I didn’t want to force it, but it was the fastest way to get an answer, so I couldn’t help it.
But every time I did that, the maids shed tears of emotion.
Was I better than before?
“Phew……”
I couldn’t help but sigh as I leaned against the door, and I could hear the maids whispering outside again.
“Did you know that she said to me today, ‘Hmph! Good job.’?”
“Oh my! She told me, ‘I don’t like to see you, hurry and eat lunch.'”
“It seems like our mistress is getting warmer these days.”
“Maybe married life was hard for her?”
“Right. After stamping the divorce, hasn’t she become happier?”
“Shh! You can’t say that!”
The overstepping chatter quieted down soon with the control of one maid.
In short, the main point was that while outwardly cold, the mistress was becoming warmer and the physical assault wasn’t happening like before.
I lay on the carpet as it was.
It was really hard to be a villain.
The villainess of , Countess Morris.
Her maiden name was ‘Ellen Bourbon Linore’ and she came from a ducal family in the Bourbon Kingdom.
The her I knew lived a life filled with envy, jealousy, and obsession, and met a terrible death in the end.
“Am I going to be executed too?”
It was indeed a serious future.
I didn’t want to die, and divorce was a simple thing, but execution was about three years away.
“What if I change the future by doing something different from the novel? Since I was punished for tormenting the protagonists, maybe if I do the opposite, I can live?”
It seemed like that. They won’t suddenly sentence me to death for no reason.
Plus, Marlboro and Laila were on good terms.
“Why would they bother if I keep quiet?”
I felt like the villainess’s death flag was easily resolved.
And I fully understood what Philip meant by ‘children.’ It referred to his son Marlboro and daughterinlaw Laila.
The sixteenyearolds, who had felt mutual sympathy through their suffering and sorrow from Ellen, had soon fallen in love.
“Hmm…… They will be back from their honeymoon this afternoon. I should try to gain their favor.”
Of course, they would feel uncomfortable with me now, especially Laila.
The young countess had now become her motherinlaw.
“But if I become a more comfortable Siwerd?”
They were still young and kind children, so their hearts would melt. Then they would forgive me.
“Okay, I’m going with the sunlight policy.”
I’ll be nice to them no matter what. Until when?
At least until I’m no longer hated by them.
With that decision, I now checked the divorce confirmation documents that Philip had sent through housekeeper Domingo.
The document had a blank space to choose either ‘divorce confirmation’ or ‘divorce cancellation.’
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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