“I had tea time with fifteen noble ladies in the morning.”
At my words, his hand, lifting the hem of my dress to his knee, paused.
“Quite a crowd. So?”
“Among them… those who have already become your consorts, sent me their regards.”
“What?”
Rinel had a visibly shocked face.
Letting go of the hem of my dress in his hand, he slowly leaned his torso that had been inclined towards me, back.
“Can you remember… which houses those ladies were from?”
“Miss Katherine of the Duke of Calleos, Miss Melanie of the Duke of Hetsros, Miss Fesilini of the Viscount of Asto, and Miss Roji of the Count of Adelheid.”
My God, did I really remember all of their houses?
I am fast listing the houses and names of the consorts without even pausing!
While I was admiring my own memory, Rinel’s face gradually crumpled.
“Ah, and I heard that Miss Katherine had a special relationship with Rinel, is that true?”
At my subtly added words, Rinel’s blue eyes darkened rapidly.
He didn’t seem to be embarrassed or troubled.
It looked like he was contemplating something.
What is he thinking about?
I wasn’t too bothered about the fact that Miss Katherine was his fiancee.
What I was curious about was Rinel’s current feelings towards Miss Katherine, which were hard to gauge due to his ambiguous expression.
“You’ve… started things.”
Rinel murmured quietly, his gaze dropping to the marble floor.
I peeked at his profile, his head slightly bowed.
His jaw tightened, and his lips twisted.
A momentary spark of life flickered across his face.
Perhaps noticing that I was secretly watching him, he let go of his stern expression and looked at me.
“I didn’t intend to let you know like this…”
He spoke as if confessing, with an extremely wronged look in his eyes.
“Zelda, do you remember when we got married?”
“It’s been so long that it’s blurry, but I do remember.”
It wasn’t intended to be sarcastic, but my words came out that way without me realizing.
“It’s about time you forgot if it was three days ago.”
Rinel didn’t seem upset, but rather played along with my words.
“Even if you didn’t like me, I’m not the kind of guy who would take a harem just a few days after getting married.”
“Is that true?”
“Yes, I’m not that light.”
His gaze dropped somewhere and then rose again.
No, what I wanted to ask wasn’t that…
“So, it’s also true that you don’t like me?”
“That was just an example.”
He frowned and retorted in a displeased tone.
If all of this was an act, I wanted to applaud his acting skills.
“So, you were planning to take a harem?”
He obediently nodded his head and sighed.
“Whew, there had been proposals about the harem issue since before the national marriage, but I didn’t know they would be so hasty. But it was definitely agreed that we would decide when to welcome the harem after consulting with you first…”
“So, I found out first?”
“Yes.”
…So, even before Rinel mentioned the harem to me, one of the harem members deliberately exposed the fact at tea time today.
“It might be hard to believe, but it’s true. It’s bad news, but I intended to tell you directly and make you understand.”
Rinel continued to speak, quite apologetically but calmly.
“Since I, a child of the harem, ascended to the throne, the substitutes want to confirm their positions, taking my legitimacy as an excuse whenever they get a chance.”
“Ah.”
“So that’s why I brought in the power of the Shatoneil kingdom through the national marriage to check the power of God. Of course, it was also to prepare for the war with the southern continent, to form a stronger alliance between the two countries.”
“It seems like you caught two rabbits at once, Your Majesty.”
When I dryly chimed in, he faintly smiled.
“Heh, maybe three rabbits?”
His hand brushed against my cheek.
“The marriage was done according to my will, but there were conditions that the substitutes proposed to me.”
“Was the condition… that while the empress is from Shatoneil, the harems should be daughters of noble houses from the Raphion Empire?”
“You catch on quickly.”
Rinel, who had been leaning against the back of the sofa, slowly leaned back towards me.
“As you know, our northern continent has been at war with the southern continent because of the wyverns.”
“Yes.”
“Although the war is currently on pause, if the wyverns come back, the war will start again.”
“Yes, I know that very well.”
“Right. The situation forced the ministers to accept the national spirit process with the Kingdom of Shattounil, but they are against a successor with mixed blood from other countries.”
“So… Is the plan to bring noble ladies from the Laphion Empire into the harem and to nominate a prince born from them as your successor?”
Rinel cringed his eye as if just hearing it was unpleasant.
“They probably think I can’t object to it since I myself was born from a concubine.”
His already low voice fell even further.
As it turned out, this was not just about bringing in concubines.
There was a tense tug of war between the imperial power and the divine power in the Laphion Empire.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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