Dietrich was called to check on Seliya’s condition, but as soon as he faced him, the doctor’s face turned pale with fear.

Dietrich’s gaze slid from the doctor’s pale face to Seliya. There was not a trace of sympathy in his face as he looked at the drooping Seliya with a lifeless expression.

It was a face devoid of not only sympathy but also anger, resentment, an utterly impassive face.

It was an emotionless face, but that made it all the more frightening.

There was no one in the royal palace who didn’t know how cruel Dietrich was.

From the beginning, it wasn’t that he had the emperor’s unconditional trust. The emperor had completely forgotten about bringing him to the palace on a whim, and was busy with women.

In the palace full of all kinds of conspiracies, a beautifully born boy without any particular background was easy prey for many.

Even the servants responsible for various chores in the palace were mostly the children of lower nobility, so when a boy they had never heard of, who had almost been sold into slavery, suddenly started staying in their quarters, they made no effort to hide their displeasure.

But since the emperor had brought him, they tried to act appropriately at first. But the emperor did not look for Dietrich even after three months had passed.

When the servants realized that Dietrich had been abandoned, they began to openly ignore him. The onesided torment, assigning him menial tasks, gradually intensified day by day.

Whether it was pouring cold water on him pretending it was a mistake, or verbally insulting him, Dietrich’s expression never changed.

The male servants did not like Dietrich, who was still immature but acted as composed as an old man who had seen the world.

One day, a male servant who had been tormenting Dietrich the most locked him in a storage room and called four soldiers to disgrace him.

Dietrich did not suffer a scratch that day.

On the other hand, the people who had tried to harm Dietrich were all found brutally dead. All five bodies were found without a single sign of struggle, stabbed with knives all over.

The male servant who had tried to harm Dietrich was found holding a rusty knife.

The incident was brushed aside as them having a violent argument and killing each other.

Deaths were common in the royal palace. People died for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or if they fell out of favor.

In such a palace, it was only natural to hush up the death of a few insignificant servants, especially when it seemed like they killed each other.

People died all at the same time trying to harm Dietrich. It was too strange to be a coincidence.

Since then, many people have tried to mess with Dietrich, but they all met tragic ends.

After the greedy male servant who tried to secretly sell Dietrich to a highranking noble was executed for attempting to rape the emperor’s maid, people finally realized that Dietrich was no ordinary person.

The frightened servants drove Dietrich, who had been temporarily staying in the servants’ quarters, to the old, sick horses in the stable at the edge of the palace.

Although the horses were old and sick, they had once shown great skills on the battlefield, so they were kept alive to spend their remaining years in peace.

Since the horses were all violent by nature, it would not have been surprising if they kicked Dietrich to death in his sleep. Indeed, the servant who took care of the horses before Dietrich was killed on the spot after being kicked in a vital spot by a horse.

Knowing this, the servants had sent Dietrich to the stable, hoping that the horses would kill him.

But contrary to their wishes, the horses followed Dietrich very well. He slept in the stable at night and looked after the horses during the day or took on the servants’ menial tasks, spending his days like that.
Dietrich, having been observed skillfully taming a horse, was reported to the Emperor by a royal knight, but the Emperor, tilting his head, laughed and said, “Ah, those red eyes? He was still alive?”

A compassionate royal knight taught Dietrich swordsmanship.

After a time of 10 years, the royal knight Anderson, who had taught swordsmanship to Dietrich at the time, became his subordinate, and Dietrich was promoted to the head of the royal knights and became the Emperor’s closest confidant.

Dietrich was quietly referred to as the Emperor’s mad dog. The Emperor was dead… How will he now appear?

The eyes of Dietrich, in which no emotion was reflected, turned towards the observing councilor.

The councilor, crushed by Dietrich’s aura, trembled and hurriedly lowered his eyes to the floor as if he had seen nothing.

“Speak. How is the body’s condition?”

The councilor swallowed his saliva at the voice that had no emotion, as lifeless as the look in the eyes, and recited the information he had learned.

“……The life expectancy is at most one year. The body’s condition is no longer that of a living thing. The organs are failing, and rotten blood is pooled inside.”

The councilor looked at Seliya with a troubled face and added.

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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