Crash!
A sound of something loudly breaking echoed throughout the hallway.
“…That’s what I was saying!”
The faintly audible shout that followed was undeniably slurred from alcohol.
“…Please stop…”
And someone’s plea followed right after.
The man frowned and moved a step further away from the direction of the sound.
Although the disturbance happening somewhere else was good for me, in the long run, it would mean enhanced security in the palace, so it wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
“Arrgh!”
“…Stop! Don’t do this…!”
With a scream more tearing than the loud noise before, silence returned.
“They subdued it quickly.”
The man, his eyes shimmering like snake scales, glanced around before he resumed his cautious stride.
Long after he left that place, the man’s lips cracked dry.
“Darn it, the imperial palace is something else.”
He’d never been this tense, even when he casually entered the heart of his kingdom’s palace, the Empress’s palace.
Despite having meticulously prepared for days and nights, his back was drenched in cold sweat from the tension.
“I was lucky.”
The likelihood of him being discovered was greatly reduced thanks to the accident caused by someone he didn’t know.
As he sent a mocking smile and thanks to the guy who caused the accident, the corners of his mouth curled up viciously.
“Foolish guys. Leaving such a shortcut and insisting on detours.”
When the guys gathered to captivate the princess of the empire from various countries, they all told the same story.
‘I can’t see Her Highness the princess’s face…’
‘I was refused an audience…’
‘The walkway wasn’t blocked, right…’
One has to look at the sky to pluck a star. They needed to catch the princess’s eye, but they couldn’t even try as they had no chance of seeing even the end of her hair.
The one who caused the accident was probably drunkenly causing a scene, begging to meet the princess without any plan.
“No, they probably do such things because they lack the ability to move like this. They’re knights in name only.”
The man who moved stealthily in the dark like a weasel shook his head.
There might be knights who can move noiselessly and unnoticeably in the night, but their number wouldn’t be large.
Rather than learning this skill as a knight, the man had honed it for his personal pleasure.
“It’s about time to arrive.”
Having reached the innermost part of the princess’s palace, he craftily looked around. He didn’t know exactly where the princess’s bedroom was, but he was certain it was somewhere nearby.
“They say she moves her room every day due to assassination threats.”
Whether he could enter the princess’s bedroom was completely up to his luck.
But he was quite confident. He had a track record of finding the bedroom of the queen he had been flirting with.
“This seems to be the place.”
The moment the man who was looking at the tightly closed door without hesitation grabbed and turned the doorknob.
“Are you lost?”
A soft voice echoed as if whispering in his ear.
Startled, the man instinctively reached for his hip, but it was unthinkable for a foreign knight to be allowed to carry a weapon in the imperial palace.
The flustered man abruptly stopped.
If he was an imperial knight, he would have been arrested without question, but the fact that he was still standing…
The man grimaced and turned his head in the direction of the voice.
“You are…”
The owner of the voice at the end of his gaze was none other than that knight.
Wasn’t he the darling of the Nordern country that the princess fell for at first sight and brought to her side?
“Why are you here…”
The man closed his mouth midsentence.
This is where the princess’s bedroom is, and he is the princess’s…
“If you’re lost, should I call a servant?”
Leaning against a pillar, his face was deeply shadowed and invisible, and though his voice was calm, it was a sufficient threat to the man listening.
If someone were to come here, he would be fine, but she…
Thump.
The man clenched his teeth as if they would shatter, but it was hard to hold back his anger.
He knew that once an opportunity passed, it rarely came back.
He had lost a golden opportunity because of that insignificant man, but what could he do?
In the end, the man who turned away murmured so softly that he could barely hear himself.
“I must come back……ugh!”
However, he froze before he could even finish his sentence. Because Cryer was suddenly in front of his nose.
Half submerged in the darkness, he looked like a beast lurking, hoping for prey to enter its mouth.
The man opened his mouth, but only a sigh came out.
At the same time as a chill ran down the back of the retreating man instinctively, cold sweat began to flow down.
Surely, there should be lighting in the hallway.
Yet, why were only the crimson eyes sparkling in the stifling darkness where not a single point of light entered?
How much time, each second feeling like a millennium, had passed?
The man’s trembling jaw creaked open.
“What are you……ugh!”
And as soon as he opened his mouth, his feet were lifted off the ground.
“What exactly were you going to do?”
Cryer, who was laughing as he lifted the man, or rather the trash, by the collar with one hand, asked.
“Cough, keuk!”
The man whose face turned red, then crimson, then black as his airway was closed struggled, but Cryer’s hand didn’t budge an inch.
Cryer’s very low voice, like a creeping shadow, reached the man’s ear.
“Thinking you could come back.”
Why She Is Still Unmoved (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: He uses various methods to seek her affection, but she remains unmoved.
Synopsis:
Si Qingyu is a doctor who has saved countless lives and enjoys tranquility.
Luo Shaoxuan is ruthless, deeply scheming, and the top young master in the capital. He admires Si Qingyu.
Luo Shaoxuan: I want to be the only one in your eyes and heart.
Features a cold and calm female lead vs A noble and scheming male lead.
There will be both sweetness and torture towards the male after their marriage.
