There were two reasons she thought her luck wasn’t so bad. First, Simonen could be the key to Peter’s secrets.
Second, Simonen was the type of person she could easily handle.
‘I was planning to seek him out anyway, but he came to me.’
If it had been Noah, not Simonen, watching over Lowell, she wouldn’t have secured the secrets so quickly.
‘Once a rigid person breaks their mold, it becomes easy.’
Especially since Simonen harbored hostility towards ‘Annette.’ There’s no easier emotion to manipulate.
Just a slight twist to break down his defenses, and everything becomes straightforward.
Simonen didn’t realize that during the days he guarded Lowell, her busy movement around the palace was not mere strolling. She was weaving a spider’s web.
She plotted where the maids gathered during their breaks, which passageways she could pass through unnoticed, and how to make herself a topic of their conversations.
Lowell had calculated all this, and her web caught a fine prey.
A very fine prey named Simonen Lindell.
‘So this is the preservation garden.’
Lowell stood in front of a building that looked like an ordinary annex. Its design made it impossible to discern the interior from the outside, even appearing insignificant. It clearly bore the mark of being made to hide from others’ eyes.
‘And this is the lock.’
Lowell touched a statue placed beside the building. It seemed like a normal structure, but touching it revealed preservation magic. A regular statue wouldn’t need such magic unless it was frequently attacked.
‘Simonen said he’d open it with sword energy.’
So, it certainly wasn’t an ordinary lock. It couldn’t be a mere keyhole, and it had to withstand sword energy while not appearing too obvious.
‘Well, trying it out will tell.’
With that thought, Lowell prepared to test the lock.
Lowell raised her left hand. A bracelet with thin diamond-shaped gems dangled on her wrist. She plucked the largest and brightest blue gem from the bracelet.
With a snap, the metal broke, and the bracelet instantly transformed into a short sword, resting securely in her hand. The distinct feature of the sword was the diamond-shaped gems decorating the hilt, with one spot conspicuously empty.
Lowell inserted the gem she had just removed into the vacant spot. It fit perfectly, as if it had always been there.
The dagger’s name was Todd. It was given to Lowell by Jurgen to teach her how to survive in Operetta.
And despite her black hair indicating a complete lack of talent in manipulating magic, this dagger enabled even Lowell to release magic.
‘I don’t fully understand the principle behind it.’
As far as she understood, Todd forcibly extracted the wielder’s innate magic power. That’s why most people who used Todd ended up with depleted magic and succumbed to illness.
The superstition that using Todd leads to a short life originated from this.
However, Lowell seemed to have a surprisingly good compatibility with it, as she hadn’t encountered major problems using Todd. In fact, she felt rather invigorated after using it.
With a light swipe, Todd grazed the statue, and a heavy sound of stone moving came, not from the statue but from the door behind it.
A door that seemed seamless opened, and Lowell could finally enter the ‘preservation garden’ Simonen had spoken of. As she entered, the door closed behind her with a thud.
Finding a way out first would have been logical, but standing before the garden, Lowell found herself unable to think.
“……This place.”
The preservation garden resembled the greenhouse of the Hessen mansion, as if it had been transplanted there.
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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