My lips moved on their own, but it was also what I had been thinking to myself when I heard his question earlier.

“Yes.”

Emperor Rinel watched me, following his question, his mouth twitching repeatedly.

“Do you, do you consider me your wife?”

Stop it. Please.

Just stop it here.

But already, my reason and instinct had begun to play separately.

“Of course, I consider you my wife.”

Though he showed an awkward look, he answered diligently.

There’s one last question left…

Both of us knew what that question was, but the tension was palpable.

I consciously kept my lips closed, trying not to speak.

“Do you need some time to think about this question?”

Just because I was moving my lips around, he seemed frustrated and asked first.

He seemed to be enjoying this moment.

“I don’t have a question.”

Biting down hard on my molars, I barely managed to voice it.

“There should be one more question, right?”

Seeing his somewhat disappointed expression, I felt my heart crumbling like a sandcastle.

The eyes of Emperor Rinel, like the blue sea, shook my heart back and forth.

The corner of his mouth was lightly raised, like the tip of a sailboat.

Seeing him smile at me, my lips moved on their own again.

“Do you, do you consider me a woman?”

Ah, in the end, I couldn’t defeat the strength of the fire god and asked that last question.

I did it.

I was so embarrassed that I wanted to throw myself off the terrace.

Emperor Rinel’s pupils deepened.

I wanted to avoid his gaze, but I was also curious about his answer.

Right, I can hear his answer and then jump off the terrace, it’s not too late.

Surprisingly, his silence was much shorter than the time I was silent after receiving the same question.

“I think of you as a woman. I’m thinking about it.”

At the clear and firm voice of Emperor Rinel without hesitation, my heart fell somewhere deep inside my body.

But the words that followed found my heart again.

“Whether that could lead to love… to be honest, I’m not sure yet.”

“Yes…”

I tried not to look disappointed.

There was no need to feel hurt.

In fact, it was a natural statement.

“Are you disappointed?”

“No! Your Majesty, you don’t know me well yet, so I think it’s natural.”

“What if I get to know you a lot? Then, what happens?”

“You should be careful……”

I whispered, covering my mouth with one hand.

“What?”

“So you don’t fall too much for me.”

“…Wow. You’re very confident. Are you serious?”

“Really? I was just kidding.”

“?”

“You’re truly naive. I didn’t expect you to take it so seriously… ha!”

I burst into laughter at his serious expression.

“You’re crazy.”

“Huh?”

Emperor Rinel closed my open mouth with his index and thumb.

In the state where he turned my lips into a duck’s bill, he spoke with force in his eyes.

“But I have no intention of being careful with you.”

What does he mean?

“It was warm. That moment we shared on our first night… so I’ve been thinking about that moment recently…”

“!”

He stopped talking and let go of my lips he had made into a duck’s bill.

Then he rubbed his own neat features with both hands as if washing his face.

“You may have been mistaken.”

As I patted his back and spoke softly, he raised his head.

“Mistaken?”

“Well, the priests were waiting outside the bedroom, and there was no fanfare… so I think you were mistaken.”

I laughed awkwardly, trying to change the embarrassed atmosphere.

“Could it be? Yes, it could have been.”

Emperor Rinel surprisingly accepted my words easily and nodded.

“So, my wife.”

“Yes, my…husband.”

“Let’s get to know each other again.”

He spoke ominously.

“Now.”

“?”

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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