It was a breathtaking sight she’d never seen before.
Like any other girl, the palace was a dreamlike place to long for.
To work in such a place, commoners couldn’t approach, of course, and they needed a recommendation and a family name.
That’s why, for Mia, who grew up in an orphanage, that place was even more like a real fantasy.
‘……Here? Recommend me? That’s impossible.’
“I’m a thief! If I steal something from the royal family, why would you recommend me?”
Mia, whose heart was pounding at the dreamlike story, tried to regain her composure, but she began to stammer, unable to overcome her trembling excitement.
“Um, essentials should be okay. Anything but that…. For example, the emperor’s crown. Mainly treasures?”
“What… what did you say…?!”
“It doesn’t matter as long as it’s not that. Arguing with the emperor is annoying….”
Was the rumor true that the black monster was afraid of even the emperor?
Mia was bewildered by her words, true or bluff.
Her head told her to refuse, but her instincts told her to trust Lucia’s suspicious offer.
And Mia decided.
In a life already at rock bottom, she decided to take a chance.
……But, dealing with the lonely daily life in the palace that was turned upside down by the black monster’s recommendation was Mia’s job.
[Star Icon]White Mage Corps office.
Two administrative officers were left, checking the documents to be handed over today.
“Jaina, guess who I met when I went to Gus’s main closet yesterday?”
Marie, the White Administrative Corps member, naturally handed half of the documents to her colleague next to her as she spoke.
“I don’t know. Lady Hanna, the hot gossip lately? Count Deon?”
Jaina also naturally took the handedover documents, organizing them as she answered.
“Ohoho, you joke. We see them in social circles. That place is for fitting children’s clothes.”
“Huh? Really?”
When Jaina focused on her inexplicable laugh, Marien whispered quietly as if delivering significant news.
“……Division Chief Lucia!”
“……Oh! No way! Then, for the child at the affiliated kindergarten?”
At her astonishment, Marien nodded her head with an excited face.
“But Jaina, I’m curious about who the child’s father is. The rumor says…….”
As Marien spoke seriously, Jaina, as if she had heard, suddenly raised her hand.
“Ah, that rumor! It’s all the rage among the young ladies these days. She said it with her own lips. She has so many suitors she doesn’t know who her lover is? How remarkable!”
“Oh, that’s cool. Really. Indeed, we married women can’t even imagine leading such a life.”
“That’s right. To discard men to her taste. Ordinarily, she would have been condemned by now, but our Lady Lucia is a legendary sword master.”
The two looked out somewhere through the window, their eyes wide with awe.
The Countess Marien and Jaina.
They were women who grew up in a repressed environment and had children through an arranged marriage.
They were not dissatisfied with their husbands now, but they were incredibly envious of Lucia, who was the current talk of the town, having never been able to experience various romances when they were single.
Distracted by their lurid fantasies, they were brought back to reality by a sudden thought that crossed their minds.
“Ah! That’s right! I saw the child’s eyes the other day, and they were golden!”
“…What? Golden eyes? Good heavens, in that case!”
“That’s right! Commander Leon. Thinking about it, it explains why the commander became more obsessed after the child was born!”
“That’s right! That’s right! Men are always sensitive about their own bloodline!”
Were they bored with work, or were they bored with life?
Perhaps both, they were enjoying themselves, fitting the pieces of a baseless puzzle together when Marien suddenly turned serious.
“But! We can’t confirm it yet. There is one more person with uncommon golden eyes?”
“Oh, really… Could it be!”
As if shocked, their eyes widened, and they matched their mouth shapes as if they knew a big secret.
‘Crown Prince Aileen!’
‘Crown Prince Aileen!’
‘Oh my, my, my~!’
‘Oh my, my, my~~!’
With perfectly matched mouth shapes, they made a silent uproar, then suddenly began to imagine.
“……A forbidden, sacred angel and a decadent younger lover.”
“……It’s paradise.”
Thus, the two, now putting their work behind them, were lost in their immoral flights of fancy.
Gulp.
“Ah!”
“Wow!”
The person who opened the door and came in was rather startled by their screams and stepped back.
“Co, Commander! You’re here? Commander?”
“Phew, it’s hot. Oh, you’re here. Commander.”
“……Why are you so surprised?”
He was the White Mage Commander, Leon Ruwins.
Seeing Leon enter the office, they hurried to conceal their true feelings as if fire had fallen on their feet.
With such suspicious behavior, he slowly walked to his desk with a skeptical look on his face and sat down.
He could see that something was going on, but Leon was not the type to dig obsessively.
He just started on his work that needed to be finished today.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
