“Is there anyone else who has to face a person they’ve killed?”
No one ever told Rosette what to do in such a situation. Not even the books she read secretly from Duke Dallas had such information.
After momentarily hesitating, Rosette instinctively murmured.
“…sorry.”
“Huh?”
“I’m sorry.”
Duke Adrian looked puzzled.
“For what?”
“Just, for everything.”
Rosette resumed her crying that she had briefly stopped.
“I’m just sorry for everything.”
The man before her had no memory of it, but the fact that Rosette had once killed him remained unchanged.
“Don’t cry, child.”
“Never go back to that man.”
Even in his dying moments, Adrian Duke was worried about Rosette being used by Duke Dallas.
Rosette had killed such a kind person.
Although Joshua’s tears were the final trigger, Rosette had been plagued by guilt ever since she killed Duke Adrian.
“I’m sorry, I’m really sorry.”
Duke Adrian looked at Rosette, who was prostrate and crying before him, with a look of pity.
He could understand her feelings. Children of Rosette’s age, especially commoners, would tremble in fear at the sight of a noble and hurriedly apologize.
But Rosette seemed different. Though she appeared to be only about six or seven years old, she seemed as if she carried the weight of an entire adult life’s worth of sorrow.
Duke Adrian, feeling an inexplicable sympathy for her, helped her to her feet.
“Stop crying now. You’ll exhaust yourself, no, you might collapse.”
Rosette resisted standing up and shook her head.
“The wind is cold. Let’s go home now. Where is your home?”
At that moment, Jane, who had regained her senses, was shocked to see him.
“Gasp, a nobleman!”
Jane, guessing the situation from the sight of Rosette crying, prostrated herself beside her.
“Please, I don’t know what my sister did, but please forgive her. Please punish me instead.”
Duke Adrian looked puzzled for a moment and then murmured to his attendant with a smile.
“Such a deep bond between sisters. It’s good to see.”
“Master, they seem to be children staying at a nearby orphanage.”
“An orphanage?”
“Yes. The one affiliated with the temple you were planning to visit.”
“That’s good.”
Duke Adrian effortlessly picked up Rosette. Despite being seven years old, she seemed light as a feather to him.
The attendant helped Jane to her feet.
“Let’s stop crying and go back now.”
Rosette quickly nodded to get away from him. Thanks to that, she returned to the orphanage with Jane and Duke Adrian, trembling all the way.
“What in the world happened to you?”
The big sister of the orphanage exclaimed in shock at the sight of Jane. Jane’s body was covered in dried blood.
Only then did Jane let out a puzzled “Huh?”
“Strange?”
She felt around her body.
“I definitely got hit by stones, but it doesn’t hurt!”
“Stones? What stones?”
“People were calling me a thief, saying I stole cookies, and throwing stones at me…”
“What? Those people really!”
The big sister’s eyes narrowed in anger. She rolled up her sleeves, ready to run to the village at any moment. Jane quickly grabbed her waist.
“Sister, I’m fine! It doesn’t hurt!”
“You bled so much, how could it not hurt? I have to call a doctor right away!”
“It’s true!”
Jane lifted her bangs to show her clean forehead. As the big sister’s eyes widened, Jane then showed her arms and knees.
“How is this possible…”
“I don’t know! I lost consciousness for a moment and when I woke up, I was like this! Sister! Did the goddess protect me?”
Unlike the innocently murmuring Jane, the big sister of the orphanage, who had seen much of the world, had lost her naivety. She didn’t believe this incident was a blessing from the goddess.
“Duke Adrian came, right?”
Duke Adrian. It seemed like he had brought a magician with him. Since he brought Jane and Rosette, it was likely he felt pity for Jane and had her treated.
“Jane, when you meet Duke Adrian later, make sure to thank him.”
“Huh? Why?”
As soon as the duke’s name was mentioned, Jane instinctively shrank. Nobles were still a source of fear for children.
“Because it seems like the duke treated you.”
“The duke? Why me?”
“He’s a kind person, so he couldn’t just overlook you.”
“But aren’t all nobles bad?”
“Shh, I told you not to say such things…”
“While I partly agree with that, there are good nobles too. Like Duke Adrian, for example.”
Interrupted by a sudden voice, the three of them simultaneously turned towards the source.
A man with brown hair, dressed in clothes as expensive-looking as those of a duke, stood there. The young man, looking to be about thirty, adjusted his glasses as he approached them.
He nodded and then handed something to Jane. It was the paper bag she had been holding dearly in the square.
“Ah! The treats for Rosette!”
Jane snatched the paper bag, looked inside, and her eyebrows drooped in disappointment.
“Oh no. They’re all broken. I bought them for our Rosette.”
“Unnie, it’s okay…”
“Anticipating this, I’ve prepared something.”
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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