A knight dressed in a cloak, covering her to the point where her eyes weren’t visible, descended from the carriage.
“I came at the command of Count Roger. Cain! Help with the luggage.”
Diana, who was closely watching the knight who spoke with an emotionless voice, shifted her gaze to the approaching Cain.
“Please get on.”
Handing over the luggage, Diana, along with Rodin, boarded the carriage.
Clank.
As soon as the two got on, the carriage door closed tightly. Through the small window of the carriage, the sight of the knight mounting next to the coachman was visible.
“We’ll depart.”
With a slight turn of the head, the knight whispered, and the carriage started moving.
‘Where have I seen her before?’
Diana squinted her eyes, narrowing her gaze at the back of the knight dressed in a flipped cloak.
It looked familiar, but she couldn’t remember who it was.
‘Perhaps I saw her when I met Lamein, that woman.’
Nonchalantly dismissing the thought, Diana yawned, suppressing a laugh.
“He tells the Countess to come at this hour. Ridiculous, isn’t it?”
Muttering with irritation, Diana, with her forehead creased, caught the amused lips of the sitting Rodin.
“But isn’t it something to look forward to?”
At Rodin’s words, Diana smiled with a smirk, as if asking when she ever made an impression.
Then, briefly, looking at the coachman and the knight, she opened her mouth.
“I wonder how pleased the Countess will be when she meets us. I’m really looking forward to it.”
As if urging them to listen, Diana chuckled, biting her lips to suppress her laughter.
Thinking of Lamein’s face, who knew nothing and would be bewildered, she couldn’t help but laugh.
‘Keep an eye on how Lamein is doing. If that foolish woman shows any signs of mischief, report it immediately.’
Recalling her master’s words, Diana looked out of the carriage window.
The world swallowed by darkness was eerily silent.
A considerable distance had to be covered.
‘I should rest my eyes until we arrive.’
Diana, shifting her gaze away from the window, closed her eyes.
Creak, creak.
After a while, the sound of the carriage wheels, echoing through the dark world, came to a stop.
“…Huh? Have we arrived?”
The moment the carriage stopped, Diana opened her eyes.
With eyes still clouded by sleep, she looked outside through the carriage window and narrowed her eyes slowly.
“Where is this? Rodin, wake up.”
A voice tinged with anxiety flowed out.
“Yes… Yes? What?”
“Where is this?”
The moment Rodin woke up from his sleep, he blinked his eyes quickly and looked outside.
Rodin’s eyes widened as if his eyeballs were about to fall out.
A world where nothing could be seen as if there were no existence of light.
Whoosh.
Somewhere, the eerie sound of flowing wind sent a chilling sensation down the spine.
“W-where… where is this?”
“I already asked you!”
Annoyed, Diana urgently turned her head towards the window of the coach seat.
Only Cain, the coachman, was guarding the seat, and the figure of the knight was not visible.
Clank!!
At that moment, with a roar, the carriage door swung wide open.
“Eek!!”
Diana and Rodin’s bodies jerked at the large shadow covering the inside of the carriage.
A faint light flowing over the wide shoulders filling the carriage door.
Diana and Rodin’s pupils shook to the point of being scary.
Blue eyes, as if piercing through one’s face.
“Lo… Lord Roger.”
Diana, who had figured out who he was, trembled as she spoke. In the darkness, the man’s lips, coldly staring, slowly pushed up with a leisurely pace. In an instant, a chill ran through Diana’s entire body, and she tightly clenched her trembling hand. “To, Lord Roger. I… extend greetings.” Diana barely managed to utter her voice. However, the man standing in front of her showed no signs of movement whatsoever. Swallowing the silence that felt like strangulation, she opened her mouth again. “I know that this is the way to meet Count Roger.” With the intensified tremor, Diana’s voice, now fractured, flowed out. “But here…”
It was the time when lips, appearing extremely dry, moved with great difficulty. Thud. “Ugh!!” “……!” Suddenly, a long object that flew hit Lodeun’s backside. Thump. Flop. “Lo… Lodeun!!” With a single scream, Lodeun collapsed to the carriage floor. Diana, fixing her gaze on him, swallowed her fear, trembling. “Viscount… Why…” A silence so terrifying, Cedric slowly opened his mouth. “Why, you ask? Are you questioning why I didn’t slit his throat?” With a sword sheathed in a scabbard, he twisted one side of his lips. “If you want, I can cut your throat right away.” “No… no, that’s not what I meant…”
“If you want, I can cut your throat right away.”
“Ah… no. It’s not what I meant…”
Heh. Cedric, exhaling a breathy laugh, sheathed the sword he held in the air.
“We, we just heard about the Viscountess being lonely, and we’re just following the Marquis’s orders.”
That was the plea.
“I… I want to meet the lady!!”
In response to the desperate cry, Cedric’s face contorted eerily.
Cedric’s lips, tightly sealed, slowly parted.
“What audacity do you have to meet Lady Ramein?”
“…What? Uh, that… that’s…”
Clang!
“Eek!!”
As the sharp blade revealed itself in the air, a flash gleamed over it.
However, what made Diana even more fearful at this moment was.
“Go ahead and say it.”
Cedric’s blue eyes, filled with intense anger and madness, focused on her.
As the pointed blade, as if ready to cut through flesh upon contact, gradually approached Diana’s throat.
“What filthy intentions do you have towards my wife? Speak quickly with that dirty mouth of yours.”
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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