Rembrandt beamed broadly.
“Finally, I have the honor to meet you, Lady! I’ve been waiting for such a long time!”
He was absolutely thrilled by the situation.
Reina froze, her face turning pale.
That man was Rembrandt.
Not an attendant, but Rembrandt.
I’m dead. I’m now dead…
“Rembrandt, no way.”
“He has already seen me.”
“Did he recognize me?”
“My name is Christina.”
“Do I need to give him money?”
“It may be a bit hard…”
“Could you please leave me to him?”
Mixed sentences echoed in her mind.
Reina couldn’t muster the usual, “I’m Christina”, and trembled in fear.
“?”
Arthur, detecting Reina’s abnormality, held her arm.
“My lady?”
“Yes?”
Ah…
“Ah.”
Reina couldn’t say anything.
Seeing Reina shaking in distress, Arthur’s expression changed.
He looked at Rembrandt as if trying to find the reason.
And then, as if supporting her, held Reina closer.
“My lady.”
Seeing Reina this terrified, Rembrandt was taken aback, his face becoming stern.
Reina, now pale, took a shaky step back.
As Reina seemed about to fall, Rembrandt quickly moved towards her, caught her other arm, and bent down.
“Lady.”
“….”
Their eyes were at the same level.
Rembrandt lowered his voice and quickly said,
“Don’t be scared. It’s okay.”
Reina looked at him, shaking.
Rembrandt softly reassured her again,
“It’s okay.”
Tension filled Arthur’s hand, which was holding Reina’s arm.
“….”
An oddly tense silence fell.
“Um…, Sir Arthur.”
Rembrandt looked at Arthur.
“May I have a moment to talk with the lady?”
“….”
His attitude was extremely polite, apologetic, and considerate, as if he fully knew his request might be taken as a rude act.
“I will have a conversation over there, within sight. I think the lady might have misunderstood something and got scared.”
“….”
He looked truly careful.
If her husband, Arthur, rejected his request, he would have no choice but to retreat, as if apologizing respectfully.
“I will make sure not to harm the honor of Sir Arthur and the lady.”
“….”
Arthur looked down at Rembrandt, at Reina, and at his own hand tightly gripping her arm.
Unlike Arthur who was holding Reina’s arm tightly as if restraining her, Rembrandt hadn’t touched Reina more than necessary, just to support her.
“….”
He was merely sincere and earnest.
“….”
After a while, Arthur reluctantly let go of Reina’s arm.
“Thank you, Sir Arthur.”
“….”
Rembrandt, no longer showing the previous joy, escorted Reina with a thoughtful demeanor.
Reina held his hand, trembling, and they moved away towards a small fountain within their sight.
Rembrandt walked slowly, looking after Reina who was still shaking, and carefully watching her steps.
“….”
The prince carefully addressed Arthur from the side.
“…Arthur? What’s wrong?”
“Ah. Yes.”
Arthur answered curtly, his face stern.
He didn’t seem to care who was asking the question or what the question was.
Arthur just sat still like a piece of ice.
After a while, he calmly took out a cigar and put it in his mouth.
“….”
The prince quietly watched Arthur.
Then he quietly lit Arthur’s cigar.
Arthur inhaled from the lit cigar as if nothing had happened.
“….”
I thought Taylor was the only real deal….
….I thought it wasn’t the case with that side.
“….Huh.”
He exhaled the smoke in the opposite direction of the prince.
And once again he put the cigar in his mouth and his hand in his pocket.
“….”
When he tried to bluff before.
He remembered Reina’s reaction.
The clearly loud heartbeat when she heard Taylor’s name.
The slight disturbance when she heard Rembrandt’s name.
That’s why he didn’t care, thinking it wasn’t him.
“….”
What Tristan reported came to mind.
The man who was investigating Reina.
The attendant of Sir Rembrandt, a royal guest who had stayed here only for 2 weeks.
He may have a dangerous bias towards men.
You might need to be careful.
He had charmed someone he had barely met.
“….”
Various possibilities swirled in his head.
Was the one investigating ‘Reina’ ‘Rembrandt’ or ‘Rembrandt’s attendant’?
Or could it be both?
“….”
Arthur eyed the gold rim of his teacup with a troubled expression.
“Arthur.”
The Crown Prince called him with a careful demeanor as if assessing him.
Arthur responded coldly with sarcasm.
“To my quiet wife.”
Arthur finished his sentence nervously puffing on his cigar.
“Why do these stray men keep flocking to her?”
Arthur spread out the fan.
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[I’m sorry. I didn’t expect you to be so surprised.] [Are you okay?] [……] [Do you perhaps… need help?] [This is the time separator]“Do you perhaps… need help?”
At his words.
Tears welled up in the dazed eyes of Reina.
Thump.
A bewildered Rembrandt took a half step towards her, not knowing what to do.
“Lady.”
“I’m sorry……”
Reina bowed her head and apologized, not even knowing what she was apologizing for.
From the falling tears, thump, thump, one could feel the considerable hardship she had endured.
Ah…
Rembrandt felt extremely sorry for himself for having found the situation amusing.
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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