Ah……. please, speak softly, if at all. People glanced and eavesdropped on their conversation due to his exaggerated gestures and conspicuous appearance.
Aiden spoke softly, low enough so that only Jax could hear.
“Don’t call me Your Highness. If you blabber anything that reveals my identity, it will end here and now. There’s no reason to take you prisoner anymore.”
“Oh, oh, oh. I see. I understand what you are worried about. What should I call you then?”
“……Call me Dan.”
“Alright, Dan. You can call me Jax.”
Aiden didn’t even nod, thinking there would be no occasion to call him.
“Dan, I’m really worried. The truer your feelings are, the deeper your pain will be.”
Jax spoke as if giving unique and serious advice to the world.
“I know her well. I grew up with her since childhood. That’s why I’m sure where her heart is. Oh, Dan. Unfortunate for you, but I can’t help but say it. Her heart is with me.”
Aiden frowned and gulped down the beer brought by the waiter.
“It’s hard for me to bear her deep and heavy heart too. I can’t tell you the details, but her going to the north was for me. Not being able to return must be because she feels sorry for me. The reason I’m going to find her myself is to tell her it’s alright, and to bring back that tender child. If I don’t say it myself, she won’t believe it.”
Aiden did not respond.
“I know having you along is helpful, but what happens if the three of us meet? She will choose me. Wouldn’t that be too cruel to you?”
But gradually, Jax’s words weighed heavily on his heart.
Whether sincere or intentional, the flashy rhetoric of poison from Jax began to kill Aiden’s heart.
It seemed like he was right.
There may be differences in degree, but it’s the fundamental truth.
Brody never seemed to want him. No, he had never even felt that she wanted something from him.
She probably didn’t dislike him. Otherwise, she wouldn’t have shared her warmth around his neck like that, or accepted his lips with a heated sigh, or slept sprawled out like a relaxed squirrel next to him.
But that didn’t mean she wanted him. She was just being herself, as always. It was always Aiden, himself, who wanted her. Wasn’t his own desperate desire for her making him delude himself into thinking that she wanted him too?
Perhaps the whole truth was that he, the Duke of the North, had intimidated her, his war prisoner.
Yes, he couldn’t think of a reason why she would like him.
하지만 그는 남부로 계속해서 말을 달렸다.
거절의 말을 듣는다고 하더라도, 그녀를 다시 한번 보지 않을 이유가 되지는 못한다고 느꼈던 것이다.
지난날의 착각에 대한 용서라도 빌고 오자. 그대를 힘들게 하고 싶었던 건 아니라고 마음을 전하자. 하다못해 마지막 인사라도…….
해야 할 수많은 일들이 떠올랐지만, 결국, 이유는 하나였다.
그는 그저, 그녀가 보고 싶었다.
[This is a time divider.]The moon was high in the deep night.
Horo Horo, the sound of the night bird’s chirping, and Brody, a female, woke up from her sleep.
From a cozy space made of plants built in a large tree, you could see the pouring stars when lying down and looking at the sky.
‘Why did I wake up?’
Brody, a female, who was blankly staring at the sky, suddenly felt a sense of loss and turned her gaze.
She turned to her side, curled up her body tightly.
‘Has my life ever worked out so well? I can have as much money as I need if I want, and I like this space very much. I also have the ability to protect my body.’
But in fact, her desire was merely to satisfy the second stage, the need for safety.
Since becoming a character in a novel, she had been running with only one goal: ‘I must survive.’
There were some difficulties, but that goal was easily achieved.
Once a goal is achieved, it disappears.
When the goal disappeared, Brody’s mind began to constantly bring other things to her.
‘Will the Duke of the Ice Wall’s army be safe?’
The novel was already twisted.
How influential can the original story be?
Surely this world wouldn’t kill the Duke of the Ice Wall for the sake of the original work, would it? Even though I didn’t kill him?
‘What can be done by thinking about it? Fortunately, he didn’t cut his throat the moment he met him next, saying he had run away at will after abandoning him for freedom. No, he wouldn’t do that, anyway.’
If he had not been the Duke of the Northern Ice Wall, if so… would I have made a different choice?
Again and again, his smile, which he secretly showed only to her when they were alone, came to mind.
His true appearance, stripped of status and duty, was astonishingly gentle. Plus his good looks, his physical prowess, his atmosphere. There was not a corner that did not excite Brody, a female.
Only one thing, if he hadn’t been the Duke of the North…
Brody, a female, couldn’t know how much she had struggled to control her feelings.
Thus, with various thoughts, Brody stayed awake all night.
Brody, who had spent the night with her eyes open, decided to go out to the village as morning came.
‘Let’s go buy dessert! Um, buy a few more clothes. Civilization! I need civilization!’
Around now, there must be talk of how the war went, right? Um, ask while going out. Since I’m going out, yes yes.
She moved her feet, rationalizing her feelings as irrelevant to Ian.
In fact, she was most curious whether he was alive and safe.
Fortunately, Brody, a female, who went to the village market, was able to hear about the result of the war without having to ask.
It was a hot topic among people.
‘A ceasefire?! Ah……. we didn’t win. But looking at the North gaining independence, the Duke must be alive…….’
Brody, a female, felt her heart lighten a little and headed to the dessert shop.
And in the dessert shop, she found a very welcome menu.
‘Oh my! Iced coffee!’
She ordered the largest cup of iced coffee with a joyful heart.
“Puhaha!”
Sip. Sucking up the good feeling with a straw made from a sugar cane stem, she felt a refreshing sensation reach into her chest.
Although it was not iced Americano since there was no espresso extraction method, but brewed coffee with floating ice cubes, how divine on this sweltering hot day!
It could not be anything but grace.
‘I wish I could buy a lot and hoard it, but it’s no use since the ice will melt anyway. Haa……. No refrigerator…….’
Brody, a female, felt regretful, slumped down at the table displayed in the shop, and enjoyed that fleeting moment.
That’s when it happened.
Something warm approached her back and wrapped around her shoulders and waist.
Startled, Brody tried to defend herself, and the glass tipped over.
“Ah!”
Watching the precious coffee and ice drip down, Brody reflexively scowled.
But there was a bigger problem.
Brody was about to turn her head, vowing to severely punish the insolent one.
“Brody…….”
But Brody could not move at all at the sudden voice in her ear.
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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