“Miyao? (Why are you so surprised? Did Roji’s mom come to visit?)”
Aoi approached Roji, who had fallen to the floor, and, biting the hem of her dress that had risen over her legs, gently lowered it back down.
“She doesn’t have a mom. She died when I was 290 years old.”
Moiya quickly went under the bed and whispered to Aoi.
Roji, staring blankly at the terrace door, mumbled.
“That, that man seems crazy… h-he really seems to love me…”
The person who knocked on the terrace door was none other than Prince Norton.
She started crawling awkwardly.
Her legs were not released, so she couldn’t get up immediately.
Roji, who barely made it to the terrace door with her two knees, grabbed the terrace doorknob and pulled herself up.
After swallowing saliva once and taking a deep breath, she pulled the terrace door handle.
As soon as the terrace door opened, Prince Norton strode into the bedroom.
“Why, why are you like this? I just opened the door; who said you could come in?”
“Sorry, it’s urgent.”
“Hey, Prince Norton. I understand your feelings, but if you come out like this, it really puts me in a difficult position!”
“Sorry, but I’m in a more difficult situation. Please understand.”
“Just leaving the door open and entering through the terrace, how can you understand someone who does that? Well, Prince, your feelings aren’t normal in the first place.”
Now Prince Norton’s ears weren’t properly catching her words.
“What’s that?”
Only now did Roji notice that Prince Norton was holding something.
It didn’t seem to be a bouquet of flowers?
“Oh, this is…”
When Prince Norton awkwardly opened his mouth, Roji quickly waved her hands.
“Don’t accept it, don’t accept.”
“Huh?”
“Today, although Her Majesty didn’t get angry, it doesn’t mean she overlooked our problems, right? So, we can’t accept something like a gift.”
“Sorry, but it’s not a gift…”
Prince Norton responded with a perplexed voice.
“If it’s not a gift, then what is it?”
Roji, finally realizing that Prince Norton was holding a black handkerchief, stared at it piercingly.
“Mama, I’ll say it straightforwardly. Please listen to my request, and then I’ll leave you alone forever…”
“No, well! We can’t have a relationship that we’ll witness for the rest of our lives. I’m a concubine, and you’re a prince! Can’t you understand why we can’t be together?”
Prince Norton didn’t have the leisure to correct Roji’s misunderstanding.
“It’s a child.”
“…What?”
“This is not a gift; it’s my child.”
Looking down at the black handkerchief he was holding in his arms, Prince Norton spoke.
‘Did the prince lose his mind momentarily due to the trial’s wounds?’
Roji doubted the prince’s mental state.
She had witnessed a similar scene in her childhood at the Adelheid Viscount’s mansion.
A maid named Dalini, who was pregnant, gave birth, but the unborn child died by getting tangled in the umbilical cord during delivery.
“After that, the maid, whose mind went temporarily insane due to shock, suddenly recalled the time when she carried a pillow around for a while, claiming it was her child. Now, Prince Norton’s appearance seemed very similar to that maid who had lost her mind for a while. Roji frowned, looking up at Prince Norton’s face. ‘No matter how difficult it is, you shouldn’t lose your mind, Your Highness… How many fingers do you see?'” She held three fingers in front of Prince Norton’s eyes.
“I will explain separately to Queen Zelda. She will understand my situation.”
Prince Norton continued, mentioning Zelda.
“Mama, when the hunting competition starts, I’ll take her back, so until then…”
Roji was pondering how much of Prince Norton’s nonsense she should tolerate.
“Woowoo…”
A strange sound came from the black handkerchief.
What was that sound just now?
At first, she thought it might be the sounds made by Moiya or Aoi, but the murmuring was very close.
Prince Norton wouldn’t be making such sounds, right?
Roji stared at the black handkerchief.
With the sound she had just heard, the black handkerchief twitched again.
She looked at Prince Norton with astonished eyes.
Her gaze conveyed the question of what was inside.
With a tense expression, Prince Norton carefully unwrapped the black handkerchief.
“Ohh! Really, a b-baby!”
Roji covered her mouth with both hands.
It was an unbelievable situation even after seeing it.
“W-who’s the child?”
“My child.”
“…What?!”
“If I tell you the story, it might take a while.”
“Even if it’s long, you have to tell it, right?”
Roji said, looking at Rams with wide-open eyes and a grinning face.
Even in this awkward situation, Roji involuntarily smiled at Rams’s plump cheeks and her smiling face.
“The child’s safety is currently in danger. Due to the circumstances, I can’t keep her right now… There’s nowhere to trust… Please, just take care of her for a while. Please, despite my shame, I’m begging you! She’s a poor little thing.”
To say it was pitiful, the cute face of the child was a blessing in itself.
Roji’s hesitation didn’t last long.
She looked at Prince Norton and embraced the child.
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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