Feeling sorry for the man relaxing in her arms, Brody reached out her slender hand and brushed away the traces of wrinkles on his forehead, the eyes stained with pain, the face deeply marked with responsibility.
“It’s because he’s handsome, because he’s handsome.”
With a drowsy mind, she thought.
How often would she face a man to her taste in her lifetime?
Not only in her previous life but throughout this life, the situation may never happen again.
No, she even started to feel blurred about whether this was her previous life, in a novel, or a dream.
Was it because of the last novel she read that she had such a dream?
When she wakes up, it might be a hospital bed or even the afterlife.
Even if it’s not a dream, he’s someone she’ll never be entangled with again.
She had sacrificed her life for her family all her life, struggling. So this moment, no, from this moment on…
“Can’t I live as I please?”
His gaze was so affectionate, his body temperature so warm, that Brody pulled his hand that held her cheek.
It was a night that was long yet short for the first time in her life.
[This is a time separator.]Around dawn’s first light, Brody got up.
The man lying next to her was in a deep sleep.
No matter how she looked at it, it wasn’t a dream.
“I’ve done it. I really have.”
It was a night she made choices she wouldn’t normally make, but it didn’t feel strange.
“That’s natural…”
Brody looked at the man once again. He was not doing anything special, just lying down and breathing, but she couldn’t take her eyes off his beautiful figure.
“Indeed…, taste is.”
Feeling slightly awkward about admiring his appearance even in this situation, Brody, who was scratching her neck, picked up her clothes hesitantly.
The man didn’t think of getting up even at Brody’s rustle.
“Yeah, if you eat that much meshu, it’s natural to be like this.”
Brody felt relieved.
“The Duke of Ice Wall is a madman, and he’s cruel. Not one rumor seems to be true.”
She barely got up with her aching body.
It was a tremendous night.
Her body hurt everywhere, but it strangely felt satisfying.
It didn’t seem like a bad day for the start of a new life.
“It’s a pleasant morning.”
The tent’s fabric began to glow as it caught the morning sunlight.
‘If I don’t wake up from the dream, I’ll have to live in reality.’
She sat at the end of the bed, looking down at the man who was comfortably asleep.
Would there be another night with such a man in the future?
No, there probably wouldn’t even be a chance to encounter him again.
She would bury the memory for the rest of her life, but she had no regrets.
Thinking his face looked innocent without a frown, she gently brushed his forehead.
Yet, the man did not wake up.
“Farewell, handsome Extra High Duke.”
Thus, Brody was able to escape safely using her ‘ability’.
[This is a time delimiter.]How much time had passed?
The inside of the tent was completely bright.
As the light seeping through the gaps in the fabric shone on the man’s eyelids, his eyes slowly opened after a few tremors.
It was an unusual morning.
‘It’s so bright… and clean.’
Feeling a strange sense of incongruity, the man blinked and stared at the ceiling. He saw the familiar ceiling of the tent.
“High Duke, have you awakened?”
Startled by the sound from outside, the man quickly sat up.
He began to quickly recognize reality.
Judging by the bright light entering the tent, it was later in the morning than usual.
Had he overslept? The flustered man discovered something even more absurd.
He was naked, and there was no one around.
He hurriedly picked up his clothes and put them on. To be so disheveled during a war. He felt guilty about his irresponsible behavior.
‘Was yesterday’s event a dream?’
A dream? What? What dream?
His memory was fuzzy, but his mind was clearer than ever.
The man realized the reason.
‘There’s no headache.’
The terrible headache that had tortured him for 24 hours was gone.
It was the first time he had experienced this since the consciousness called ‘self’ had emerged.
The fact that the absence of a headache was so light surprised the man greatly.
‘What’s going on here?’
While he was puzzled, the voice of his aide came from outside, asking, ‘May I come in.’
The man composed himself, donned his light armor, and answered.
“Come in.”
The aide who entered the tent looked tense.
The High Duke, who always rose earlier and was more active than anyone, showed a different behavior than usual.
“I’m sorry for sleeping in. I must have slept deeply for a while.”
“Ah, it’s not that you woke up late enough to apologize. But…….”
The aide, who had been looking around the tent, darkened his expression.
He asked,
“Where did the woman go?”
[This is a time delimiter.]Brody was a ‘plant mage.’
As long as there was ‘nutrition’ to mediate, she could grow plants anywhere and anytime.
Both the poison and the mesh were grown in her palm.
‘So no matter how much they search my body, they won’t catch me. Because it didn’t exist at the time of the search.’
Always being with plants, she was proficient in botany, herbalism, food preparation, and various other information and had the ability to utilize them.
‘You’re smart, Brody. What a waste of such ability?’
She grew thick tree roots from the floor of the tent to create a short passage to the outside.
After going outside the tent, she disguised herself as a tree with plants and carefully moved when no one was around.
It was different from a clumsy disguise of attaching plants to her body.
Unless someone forcibly tore into the plants, no one would find Brody inside.
Originally, she would have been assassinated unknowingly. Now, the High Duke, deep in sleep due to the mesh, would not wake up to such quiet commotion.
Having successfully escaped outside, Brody was able to run deep into the forest quickly with the help of the plants.
‘Ah, I’m worn out.’
There was pain here and there due to last night’s heated passion, but what did that matter when her life was at stake?
Brody ran until she felt she had run far and deep enough.
Even while running, it was much easier with the help of the plants.
‘This should do it.’
After entering the forest where there were no signs of people, Brody finally stopped.
Feeling relieved that she had succeeded in escaping, fatigue overwhelmed her.
Leaning against a large tree trunk, she swung her legs.
‘What on earth is going on here.’
After experiencing death, suddenly falling into a strange space with faint traces of civilization, spending a night with a man of her taste, escaping using a strange ability, and running all day, she had come into such a deep and rugged forest.
‘I don’t even like hiking.’
Brody grumbled as she grew sweet potatoes. She considered starting a fire but was worried that it might become dangerous due to the smoke.
‘It would be best to endure today.’
She chewed on the raw sweet potatoes and became lost in thought.
‘It’s an amazing ability. With this ability, there’s really no reason to starve to death, is there? There’s no skill to make fabric, but if I learn, clothes solved! Even in the wilderness, I can build a place to rest with plants, so housing solved! With a body that’s always supplied with various food including yellow crops, food solved! Just like that, the necessities of life are solved! And not just that. If done well, I can even make a fortune, right?’
Brody, who was absorbed in grand dreams and making various plans in her head, was overtaken by sleep.
She didn’t know when her eyes had closed, but a moment later, she woke from her sleep, feeling an extreme cold. Her heart almost froze at the sight before her eyes.
Suddenly, the Ice Wall Grand Duke was staring at her intently with eyes blue as ice.
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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