In the meantime, Cedric, who had sat up and was looking at her slightly, let out a small laugh.
Why was she clutching the front of her nightgown with her hand?
“Anyone would think I was the one on top of your body.”
“……Yes?”
Now that she seemed a bit awake, her eyes cleared.
“……Did I climb onto you and fall asleep?”
Could it be? Is that what happened?
Lamein asked in a small voice.
Cedric, instead of answering, slightly nodded his head and raised one eyebrow.
“I must have been mistaken.”
“……Mistaken?”
What? Lamein widened her eyes as if to ask.
“You needed my body.”
“……Yes?”
With an unmistakable look of misunderstanding.
“You should have told me earlier.”
A clear smile formed at Cedric’s lips.
“Next time, I’ll lend you my body instead of my arm.”
“…….”
“Please let me know whenever you need it.”
Ah……. Lamein closed the small gap in her lips.
Her ears and cheeks began to turn red with embarrassment.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t know I was there…….”
Her chin pointed to Cedric’s chest.
“Climbing on and sleeping.”
“You don’t need to be sorry. Whenever you need it…….”
“It’s not that I needed it. I didn’t even know!”
What are you doing climbing on something that shouldn’t be touched!
As he glanced at her with an unannoyed look, Cedric raised both eyebrows.
“Then I’ll go back to my room.”
The tall man, who had lowered his long legs under the bed, stood up straight.
The movement caused his already open nightgown to open a bit more.
Light poured onto the body of the man standing with his back to the window.
The split chest muscles and below, the solidlooking abs were clearly defined.
‘Should I say I need it sometimes?’
Even if I can’t touch it. Even just to lean on…….
While unknowingly harboring instinctive thoughts, her husband tightly tied the strap of his nightgown.
With slight disappointment, she raised her eyelids.
“I’ll be going out for a while after breakfast.”
“Yes. Please take care.”
“Aren’t you curious where I’m going?”
I was curious when he would leave this room.
“Where are you going?”
“I plan to pick up the ordered knight’s uniform.”
“Knight’s uniform?”
“Yes.”
At Cedric’s response, Lamein smiled faintly.
“Then have a good…….”
Go and come back. Just as she was about to say it.
“Would you like to come with me?”
Cedric asked in a polite voice.
“……Come with you?”
“Yes.”
Lamein hesitated for a moment, then opened her mouth.
“I won’t be of any help if I go. I don’t have any discernment for knight’s uniforms…….”
“As I said, it’s already an ordered knight’s uniform to try on and pick up, so you don’t need to worry about that.”
For some reason, with the look that seemed to want her to come with him, and.
“Will you come with me?”
With another serious voice asking again.
“……Ah. Then shall we go together?”
Lamein made up her mind.
It wouldn’t be bad to see her handsome husband in a new knight’s uniform.
“Then let’s do that. Let’s leave right after breakfast.”
“Yes. Okay.”
Her husband, who had decided on an unexpected schedule, left the room.
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.
.
After finishing breakfast and returning, she began to prepare to go out.
“Do I really not have to go with you?”
Jane asked, tightening the waistband of her dress.
“I’m going out with Cedric anyway. Jane, you rest.”
“Yes. Understood.”
Lamein, who had finished dressing, sat down at the dressing table.
Golden hair falling to her waist, Jane gently brushed it and started to tie it together.
All the while she was fixing her hair, Jane continually stole glances at herself in the mirror.
“Jane. Is there something you want to say?”
She asked, making eye contact with Jane in the mirror.
“No. It’s because you’re beautiful.”
“Why the sudden praise?”
“I always think so.”
Jane, with a shy smile, tenderly caressed her hair.
“It would be nice if the two of you went out more often.”
“Huh?”
“Oh. I don’t mean anything else, just that it seems like you two are going out together after a long time.”
“We went to a party together not long ago.”
“Not like that…”
Jane, trailing off, seemed to glance around with caution.
“It’s okay, Jane. Tell me.”
“Honestly, if I were the Earl, I would take such a beautiful wife on a world tour.”
“……What? A world tour?”
Lamein chuckled.
“That’s right. Just holding hands and going anywhere would make you happy.”
“Where would make you happiest? For example?”
“Um…….”
Jane’s round eyes moved from side to side.
“I’ve heard of a place before. At night, the sky is filled with beautiful lights like a rainbow.”
Lamein thought of the aurora.
“Really?”
“I think it would be happy just sitting there doing nothing underneath it.”
Jane said with a joyful expression.
“You seem like the one who should go rather than me?”
“Me?”
“Yes. Right now, you have the face of someone who wants to go more than anyone else.”
Jane smiled awkwardly.
“Do you have someone in mind, Jane?”
“……Yes?!”
Jane seemed more surprised than ever.
At that sight, Lamein slightly narrowed her round eyes.
“There is!”
“No! There isn’t.”
What’s with that “No”?
You…… you got caught.
“Really?”
“Yes. Who would I have in mind? There’s no one.”
Cute.
Her flustered appearance was so adorable that Lamein wanted to press further, but she decided to hold back.
“If you ever find someone you like, be sure to tell me. Otherwise, I’d be hurt.”
“……Hurt?”
“Yes. I’m the one who wants Jane to be happy more than anyone else. So, even just a little, let me know.”
“Yes. Ma’am.”
With a shy smile, Jane nodded.
“Today, go to a lovely teahouse with the Earl, have tea and cake, look at beautiful dresses, and come back.”
Listening to Jane’s words, it felt like they were going on a date.
“I realized we haven’t really gone out together except for parties.”
……A date.
Attaching meaning to a casual outing felt a little strange.
‘Who would date a man like that anyway?’
Others can’t do it because they don’t have such a handsome husband.
A faint smile played on Lamein’s straight lips.
“Yes. We’ll be back.”
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.
.
Lamein, prepared to go out, headed toward the central door of the mansion where Cedric was waiting.
When she revealed herself, Cedric, who had been standing in front of the carriage, approached.
With one arm behind his back, he held out his free hand.
“Shall we go, my lady?”
Gently lifting the corner of his mouth and looking at his wife, she placed her hand on his broad palm.
Feeling the warmth that gently enveloped her hand, Lamein smiled softly.
‘My score is.’
She wanted to shout a perfect 100 points at her husband’s face with a faint smile.
“Yes. Let’s go.”
What others can’t have.
Their first private outing, a date with a handsome husband, had begun.
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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