“Ah, am I not allowed to leave this place?”
At Queen Lobbyna’s words, everyone’s eyes widened in surprise.
Among them, the ladies who knew her story looked at her with a gaze of disbelief.
However, Queen Lobbyna tilted her head, her face innocent as if she truly didn’t know the reason.
Yet, despite the ironic atmosphere, Aileen, the daughterinlaw of a prestigious duke, remained composed.
Having observed the queen for a long time, she knew well that the queen was not clever and lacked common sense.
“Is it alright? I hesitate to bring up that incident, but I must speak. When Your Highness was here, and the Emperor went on an imperial tour, you were caught in the slums for gambling and brought to this palace…”
It seemed like a formality, but the intention for everyone to hear was quite clear.
At this, the queen covered her flushed face and interrupted.
“Ah, stop! Stop it!”
Aileen smirked.
Yet,
“I don’t know, I’ve avoided loud gatherings for a while, but rumors have spread like that! What should I do!”
At her incomprehensible words, Aileen’s sharp eyebrow lifted.
Clearly making a flimsy excuse despite knowing her fault.
She truly thought the queen was foolish.
“Your Highness, you can’t just slip away from this. During the Emperor’s unprecedented tour, considering the welfare of the imperial citizens, how could you do such a thing…”
“But that’s a misunderstanding! I wanted to see him during the tour, so we agreed to secretly meet at a bar wearing masks. Only His Majesty ran away. Ah, was this supposed to be a secret?”
The queen’s words made everyone’s mouths drop open.
If true, the immature couple met secretly at a bar where gambling was taking place and when security arrived, the Emperor left the Queen and fled.
This was certainly not a onetime issue but a reflection of their childish love.
Aileen could say no more, looking at the queen’s flushed face.
If the Emperor was involved in this issue, it was a situation that had to be glossed over.
With things as they were, the queen vowed to receive all approvals, and the meeting ended in unanimous agreement for the first time.
[Star Icon]“What, the white wizard Hal Sham!?”
“Me!”
Cesare’s voice loudly echoed in the sparrow classroom.
The usually calm child’s cheeks were flushed, clearly excited.
“Does Cesare always do that? Well, I get it. He’s really handsome. So…”
“Roy is the knight of the emperor!”
“Right, it matches.”
“Hehe.”
Showing his cute front teeth, Roy was pleased by a compliment he had heard for the first time from Ivanna.
“So who am I? Ivanna should be a princess!”
The children thought Ivanna should hold a sword, not utter these words, but no one spoke out.
The one who reacted to this was Charle, who had been playing house.
“Hahaha, funny. When the princess is here, you claim to be a princess?”
“What, you want to join? Fine. You can be a princess from Titurshan.”
“What? The princess of a fallen kingdom? Are you sane? I don’t play such childish games!”
At Charle’s fiery words, the escorting knights nodded as if it were natural.
The Eldarion Empire, as everyone knew, became an empire by defeating the powerful Titurshan.
Therefore, the legitimate enemy of the Eldarion Empire becoming the princess of the fallen Titurshan was absurd.
However,
“Right? Well, you missed this week’s play. The new princess is really pretty.”
At those words, Charle turned his eyes to Ivanna.
“That so? Fine, if that princess is really needed, I’ll do it.”
Charle flipped her hair, thinking playing with the children was tough.
“You can’t, Your Highness…!”
At that sight, the escorting knights began to inwardly scream.
Unable to follow the Emperor’s orders to do nothing but protect, Ivan felt as if fire had fallen onto the soles of his feet, for he had to report to the Emperor who hated Titurians.
Yet amidst all this, Ivan secretly curled one corner of his lips up, pleased by the appearance of Charl.
The role of the Titurian princess was almost always portrayed by a monster, and the Princess, who had never left the palace, seemed unaware of that fact.
“So what’s left, an enemy knight? Why is the most popular one left? Nia, do you want to?”
At Ivan’s words, Nia blinked her eyes.
“……Ivan, is there no Black Knight?”
At Nia’s disheartened comment, the children around her widened their eyes.
And among them, Roy eagerly explained.
“Nia, no one wants to be the Black Knight!”
“……Uh? Why?!”
“Um. He’s strong but vicious and selfish. Even more feared than the enemy. That’s why no one chooses him. Plus, the Black Knight’s army is terrifying. Everyone hates them.”
“Exactly. Just look at Aunt Gilly, she didn’t get along well.”
Regarding what image the Black Knight in the play holds, the children started badmouthing freely.
And seeing this, Nia quickly dropped her small chin, about to burst into tears.
Noticing the situation, Cezar intervened, taken aback.
He was the only one there who knew what the Black Knight meant to Nia.
“Nia! The Black Knight is cool! Be the Black Knight. Besides, you have black hair!”
The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
— Reading Guide —
Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
