About a minute passed, and small chandeliers along the walls on both sides of the banquet hall lit up one by one.
Then came the screams of the dignitaries.
“Ahhhh!”
“Oh my, dear me! What happened while the lights were off?”
“Is the duel over like this?”
Dignitaries stood up one by one, looking toward the center of the banquet hall and uttering words.
The situation unfolding before my eyes was unbelievable.
“I won, Your Majesty!”
Elan Consort, wiping her bloodied face with her sleeve, alternately looked at Emperor Adrian, Lionel, and me as she shouted.
Then Elan Consort mouthed something towards me.
Thank, you, Zel.
I could read her lip movements.
It seemed like, in the critical moment, she thought I had helped her.
Throwing a knife at Selena Consort’s arm to buy time, and when Commander Macron extinguished the chandelier lights, Elan Consort seized the opportunity created by that gap.
I glanced down at Selena Consort, who had collapsed on the floor.
She was already lifeless.
Unconsciously, I stood up from the chair.
And I quickly scanned the marble floor in the center of the banquet hall.
It’s not there…
I couldn’t see the knife I had thrown.
It should have been somewhere near Selena Consort, but no matter how I looked around, the knife was nowhere to be found.
Squinting my eyes and continuing to survey the surroundings, I noticed Elan Consort’s hand moving towards the pocket of her trousers.
The handle of a silver knife peeked slightly from the edge of her pocket.
Did she hide the knife in her pocket in case I would get into trouble?
Or, to hide the fact that you helped?
My head ached at this absurd situation that unfolded in an instant.
In a moment, one person lived because of me, and one person died.
Even if it wasn’t me, one of them would have died.
No, even if they got injured, wouldn’t they have survived?
My mind was disturbed by the unexpected turn of events.
My heart started to beat irregularly.
I stood there, looking at the two consorts whose fates had been reversed, with a vacant expression.
“Empress, sit down.”
At that moment, Lionel’s voice, somehow now cold, pulled me back into the chair.
After sitting down cautiously, I glanced at his profile.
Lionel stared straight ahead with an expressionless face.
He silently observed the lifeless Selena Consort being taken outside the banquet hall by Tavelo Imperial guards.
“Your Majesty…”
When I cautiously called him, he interrupted me.
“Later.”
“…Yes?”
“I’ll talk to you later.”
At his firm tone, I simply nodded.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
Unable to add anything more, I turned my head to gaze at the center of the banquet hall.
The Tavelo Imperial guards quickly wiped away the blood and sweat of the collapsed consorts from the marble floor.
In the blink of an eye, the intense traces of the consorts on the marble floor vanished cleanly.
The expressions that had been shocked just a moment ago disappeared from the minds of dignitaries, and they once again raised their wine glasses, clinking them together, eagerly awaiting the next duel.
Curious about Emperor Adrian’s expression, I looked at him.
He just made a face that was neither more nor less than the disappearance of one among many consorts.
Emperor Adrian smiled and stood up from his chair.
“Shall we proceed with the next duel?”
All the dignitaries responded with applause.
When Lionel raised his hand slightly with a composed expression, the applause stopped.
“One of your consorts has died. Not injured, but lost her life. The remaining consorts’ blood should be shed in the Tavelo Imperial Palace. This should be enough to show how courageous the women of Tavelo are to other dignitaries.”
Lionel addressed Emperor Adrian, looking at the dignitaries seated at both tables.
While the Northern Continent dignitaries nodded in agreement with his words, those from the Southern Continent wore somewhat regretful expressions.
However, it was an atmosphere of reluctantly following the decision of the Laphion Empire Emperor.
“Hao-na, let’s see the match to the end.”
Only Emperor Adrian insisted on continuing the duel.
I looked at Emperor Adrian with a disdainful gaze.
Upon that, taking advantage of Lionel’s gaze briefly looking elsewhere, he winked at me secretly.
‘Ha, the knife should have been thrown at the Eun Galchi’s face!’
As I grabbed another knife from the table, Lionel grabbed my hand surreptitiously.
Male lead first thought she played hard to get, only to realize she
really disliked him
Short intro:
What she can’t stand the most is the streets full of effeminate men, especially that so-called top beauty whom she avoids at all costs.
Shen Yaoxing looks at Jiang Mingyue, who keeps approaching her with coy shyness.
Shen Yaoxing: Bro, don’t be like this, I’m really about to throw up!
She fears nothing in heaven or earth, except for him getting close to her.
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At first he thought she was just using the trick of feigning indifference to attract his attention. Later, he learned that she truly despised him.
This dealt a heavy blow to Jiang Mingyue, and he vowed to make her, like everyone else, fall at his feet in worship!
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Synopsis:
Before transmigrating, Shen Yaoxing only wanted to find a reliable man to spend her life with. Who knew that after transmigrating, she would become a reliable woman herself…
A forced misandrist, highly skilled, and reliable female lead
vs.
An initially aloof and arrogant, later morbid, obsessed male lead
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