It wasn’t difficult for her, a modern person, to say such words, but it was different in this world.
But having spent a limited everyday life in this world, even if she had Brody’s memories, she didn’t feel such details.
“Your Highness sleeps with one woman a day and switches them…… um, hmm, you keep bringing in different women every day. But you don’t sleep with me. So you must want tea.”
Brody seemed to feel that the expression ‘switches them’ was too much, so she asked softly.
And hearing those words, Aidan became thoughtful.
“Do I switch women every day?”
Ah, even though she changed the words, was it already conveyed as ‘switches’?
‘Brody, be careful with your words, be careful.’
This is a society with a class system. That person is a duke. I am a war prisoner.
It would be too easy for that person, who kills people every day, to take my neck.
Brody was flustered, but he didn’t seem angry at the word.
“I never did that. I never, ever did such a thing.”
“……Yes?”
Seeing Aidan, who was more than flustered, utterly astonished, Brody asked cautiously.
“Um……. That’s right. Not every day……. a bit of an exaggeration…….”
“No……that’s not it. I mean, hmm, you were my first.”
“……?”
Aidan’s face turned a fiery red. Not just the cheeks but also both ears, and even the neck.
Seeing Aidan shyly confessing that she was his first, Brody’s face also blushed terribly.
“Wo……women have come in and gone. They just came in and left…… damn, that River bastard. Even though I said no. No, so did the rumor spread like that?”
Whether the last words were a question or a mutter, anyway, Brody felt an explanation was necessary.
“Yes……. one woman a day, um, you roll around and then kill her in the morning. I don’t know what the rumor is among the Duke’s people, but at least the prisoners were terrified like that. Since the women didn’t come back, even more……. ”
“What?”
Aidan’s pupils quivered.
Brody was convinced by Aidan’s reaction.
It was a bit shocking, but considering his usual behavior, it seemed more plausible that the rumor was a lie.
[This is a time separator.]Part of the rumor was false, but part of it was true.
The female prisoners were sent out from the Duke’s quarters without a hair harmed, but outside, soldiers, highranking officers took those women.
Anyway, the prisoners they took never returned to the prisoner barracks, so among the female prisoners, the rumor was that they had been killed.
What happened inside the Duke’s quarters was unknown, but most of the soldiers probably knew more or less what happened to the female prisoners afterward.
And Chief of Staff River managed to keep such rumors from reaching the Duke’s ears.
So Aidan did not know that fact.
“You must be punished severely.”
In front of the angry Aidan, Chief of Staff River calmly asked.
Though he had committed the atrocity of deliberately hiding things from the Duke, he showed no signs of remorse or fear.
“Is it not forbidden by military law!”
“The atmosphere in the barracks is ominous. It would be fortunate if it is appeased with prisoners.”
“River!”
Aidan suddenly drew his sword and thrust it at River’s neck.
River’s neck was barely safe by a matter of inches.
However, River, without blinking an eye, spoke.
“If you will kill, then kill me. Going down to the royal capital for us is no different from going to die, is it?”
“No, going to die! If we could just die, we wouldn’t have had to suffer the disgrace of rebellion! You know better than anyone that we are going to live!”
“Many soldiers have already died. Those who remain do not look forward to tomorrow.”
“So we must throw in more weak ones? If we win the war by killing those women, do you think those who survive by trampling others can create a good world? They’ll only create a world that is hell for women and children.”
River’s eyes squirmed.
He knew. The Duke’s words were just.
But River also knew that they did not only lead righteous people to battle. The ominous atmosphere that seemed ready to explode at any moment needed this filthy balance.
He thought there was no other way.
Ready to do anything for the North, he fiercely bit his lip and spat out his words.
“If you don’t like it, kill me.”
“What?”
The expression on River’s face as he tossed the words was frozen emotionless, without any trace of hesitation.
“There’s not enough food to feed the prisoners. Don’t you know why this war started?”
Aidan put more strength into the hand holding the sword.
The devastation of the North caused by the royal plunder kept coming up one after another in his mind, tearing at his soul.
“Apart from five noble ladies who have value as prisoners, the others are of no help to the North. There is only one way.”
“Can’t we use them as labor?”
“What labor force, when they can’t farm? What the North needs is food, not hands.”
“If they’re not needed, just let them go.”
“Yes, let’s do that. Some may succeed in escaping, but most will fall into the hands of mad soldiers as soon as they’re released. It would be quite a sight in the North. Or surely you don’t mean to kindly escort them all the way to the Central and then release them?”
At River’s words, Duke Bingbuk roughly sheathed his sword and belted out a scream.
He had decided to die to survive, but again too many sacrifices followed to not die.
River looked at Aidan with a gloomy expression.
He knew that the burden on his shoulders was as heavy as it was cruel, but River had to be the person to insist that he carry it, not the one to lighten it.
“Enforce strict punishment.”
Aidan said through gritted teeth.
“Yes, then I will kill the prisoners too.”
At those words, Aidan could not reply.
He couldn’t starve his soldiers to feed them.
If being captured here meant enduring cruel treatment and death, it might be better to just die.
Aidan put his hand to his forehead, looking pained.
His eyes were hidden by his large hand.
How? Is there no way? Even if I reduce what I eat.
No, he was already eating as little as possible.
Even though there was no way, Duke Bingbuk could not open his mouth.
“Wait!”
A woman’s voice cut through the thickening dark atmosphere of the command post.
Chief of Staff River looked at the owner of the voice, Brody, with cold eyes.
This ‘fact’ would have reached Aidan through Brody.
So it was unlikely that Brody, who had deceived the Duke, would be in the Chief of Staff’s good graces.
“It’s not your problem to interfere in.”
“There’s a way!”
At the bold answer, the Chief of Staff looked at Brody in disbelief.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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