The fallen king, who drowned in luxury and pleasure and cared nothing for national affairs, murdered his own brothers to protect his throne.
Sicar executed the fallen king for the crime of plunging the people into chaos and bringing the kingdom to ruin.
After executing the fallen king, Sicar placed Gideon on the throne.
Gideon, who had observed the fallen king’s end, was worried that his own throne might be usurped. As soon as he became king, he imprisoned Veronia, his own sister and the mother of the novel’s protagonist, Kian, in an attempt to eliminate Kian.
Veronia had been a princess of this kingdom, but she was already a character who had been expelled from the palace before the fallen king committed his atrocities, having fallen in love with a fire spirit.
Gideon, secretly imprisoning Veronia, tried to find out where Kian was, but she never revealed her son’s whereabouts.
Gideon kept Veronia alive somewhere to use as leverage against Kian in the future, but where that was did not appear in the novel.
The protagonist Kian, who had no way of knowing this, grew up thinking that his mother had abandoned him.
King Gideon asked Sicar to find and eliminate Kian, and Sicar did eliminate Kian, but he was not the real Kian.
Eventually, the mature Kian ended up eliminating the cursed Sicar.
So, in this novel, Sicar was a villain who ended up losing his life to the protagonist.
However, now that he has read my memory, he has come to know that he is destined to die in this novel.
“Answer me. Is this really inside a novel?”
If I say it’s not, I feel like he’ll kill me for lying, and if I say it is, I feel like he’ll kill me for admitting it.
I just felt my mind go blank, not knowing what to say.
“So you won’t answer?”
Even amidst all this, his expression was impassive, so I couldn’t tell if he was angry or what.
“After all, no matter what I say, you’ll believe my memory, not my words!”
“Your words make it hard to believe this situation, but the world in your memory is a place I’ve never seen before, so I can’t not believe it either. Especially since you know everything about me and you know very well that I trust memory more than words.”
He didn’t let go of my arm as he read my memory. I reached out one hand and begged him, held captive by his hand.
“Please, save me.”
It seemed like he would kill me once he had read all my memory, so I had no choice but to beg for my life like this.
“Please save me. I didn’t want to reveal that this place is a novel. That’s why I tried to run away. Really.”
Sicar did not listen to my words at all. He just glanced at me once.
“I can’t concentrate because you’re so noisy. I need to read your memory, so be quiet!”
When reading people’s memories, he could choose like opening a file in a computer folder.
By now, he must have read all the novel in my memory, but he kept holding on.
What memory is he trying to see, holding on like this?
“You’re a kindergarten teacher. A very kind and friendly teacher to children. You grew up discriminated against by your parents in favor of your younger sibling, and you compensated by being good to children. Before you came here, you were even cheated by your sibling.”
How dare he touch on my painful family history! Having my memory read made me feel utterly exposed.
‘Can’t you stop looking now?’
Sicar sneered and let go of my arm.
“I’ve roughly figured out about you. According to your memory, this place is a novel, and I’m the villain.”
A villain who had the world at his fingertips and then lost it all in an instant.
“And a villain who meets a brutal death at the hands of a young boy, at that.”
The chills ran down my spine as Sicar stared at me with a terrifying look.
As expected, he drew the sword he always kept at his waist and threatened me.
No, this wasn’t a threat, it looked like he was actually trying to kill me.
“Then, I just need to kill the protagonist who is trying to kill me. And you too.”
“Pl, please save me! I really won’t tell anyone. Actually, I was planning to live quietly here in the first place! I planned to live quietly like a dead mouse, regardless of you!”
“Guess. Will I save you or kill you? You know me well, so you should be able to tell that much.”
‘He’s going to kill me. It doesn’t benefit him, and I know this is a novel… What, what should I do?’
“How can I stop that madman from killing me? I can’t just die like this!”
At that moment, the fact that Sicar was under an inescapable curse came to mind.
“A curse! The curse needs to be removed. If you kill the protagonist Kian, you’ll never be able to lift the curse!”
Sicar had been afflicted with a curse that occasionally turned parts of his body as stiff as ice, cast by the Agashion that a spirit master had summoned with all his might before his death long ago.
Agashion was a spirit that could curse humans, which the spirit master could use only by sacrificing his life, and the curse manifested as powerful as the spirit master’s ability.
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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