“She said to tell you that she never resents Your Majesty. That this also isn’t something that happened because of Your Majesty… She said to tell you that she loves you. If she had known this would happen, she said she would have acted more affectionately. She talked about how beautiful Your Majesty’s smiling face is, and how much she misses that smile.”
These words were repeated dozens of times.
It was also a story she wanted to tell Empress Lenisha if she ever got the chance to meet her.
The last moments of Duke Lotera, who had been hiding alone, to Lenisha.
When War hero Casius’s heavy words ended, he witnessed something he never imagined.
A thud.
Quietly, Lenisha was crying like a statue.
Her pale face was expressionless, but her red lips were thin and trembling.
Her always relaxed pink eyes were filled with moisture and cast downward.
A tear that had passed over her snowwhite cheek fell with a drop on her chin.
Casius held his breath as he watched the scene repeat several times.
Lenisha was an empress.
A person who stood much above Casius, a distant person.
He thought of her as inscrutable as the emperor.
He thought she might remain calm even in the face of Duke Lotera’s death.
He thought she would respond to this story in a typical Lenisha way, saying, “So it was. Thank you, Sir Casius.” Such a dry answer.
This was truly an unimaginable scene.
Lenisha, crying blankly, her gaze fixed on Casius.
“Tell, tell me more.”
Lenisha urged like a child.
“My father, my mother… What else did they say? I want to know their last moments.”
Lenisha pressed against Casius, pleading as if begging.
Casius bit his lips.
Even at this moment, he was thinking disgustingly about something else.
Lenisha’s exposed shoulder confused Casius.
Casius’s chest swelled. It was because he had inhaled a lot of breath.
Casius spoke with a cracked voice.
“…They went peacefully. Knowing they would die, they were calm. They said they wouldn’t mind anything for Your Majesty. They said it was enough if they could protect you.”
Lenisha parted her trembling lips and exhaled a long breath.
Parents she hadn’t seen for eight years.
She couldn’t even protect their deathbed, nor did she properly retrieve their bodies.
Driven by the emperor’s pressure, she could only watch them go miserably from afar.
Lenisha clenched Casius’s arm.
She didn’t even realize what she was holding.
‘Mother…! Father…’
They said they willingly went to save Lenisha. That they didn’t regret anything.
Had Lenisha not carelessly brought the monster named Lexus into the mansion, this wouldn’t have happened.
Everything was caused by Lenisha.
Chasing the crown prince and elevating him to the emperor was an unavoidable choice.
The assassins saw where the crown prince went.
The crown prince’s enemies thought Lotera had chosen him.
Lenisha’s mistake sent Lotera to Lexus.
She regretted that day to death.
“Huh…”
A sob escaped.
Lenisha’s body crumbled forward.
Unable to overcome the guilt that weighed her down, she staggered and poured into Casius’s arms.
Casius looked down at the small woman in his arms with wide eyes.
Lenisha’s shoulders were smaller than he thought. Enough to fit snugly into Casius’s arms.
Lenisha was leaning her head against Casius’s chest.
Her grip was pitiful, like a lifeline.
Casius raised and lowered his hand, not knowing what to do.
“I’m sorry, father…”
It was a voice so small that he wouldn’t have heard it if it hadn’t been close.
“I was wrong. Mother, I was wrong…”
Lenisha murmured. A sob followed the voice, mixed with crying.
It should have been Lenisha who died, not them.
Lenisha was the one who should have died.
The Duke making Lenisha an empress might have been because he recognized the madness of Lexerus.
To save Lenisha as well.
In those days, Lenisha was steeped in arrogance.
Having been born as a princess of the Rotera family, she had never lost anything in her life.
She thought lightly of bringing in a prince.
A girl, arrogant and naive, was intoxicated by the fact that she saved someone’s life.
She felt as if she herself had become an omnipotent god.
That Lenisha lost everything with one choice.
While Lenisha enjoyed good food and soft clothes here, the Duke and Duchess of Rotera had to spend 8 years on the battlefield, on the brink of life.
“Ugh… Mother, Father… Please, I… I did wrong… Come back. Please…!”
Sincerities that couldn’t be spoken before burst out indiscriminately.
She prayed every night to feel that warm embrace just once more.
She wished the mad emperor would come to his senses and rescue her parents from hell.
But they did not return, and just left.
Leaving Lenisha behind.
Casius left Lenisha, crying like a young beast, alone.
‘…You endured well.’
It was a deep emotion that could be conveyed to Casius.
Casius’s hesitant hand was placed on Lenisha’s head.
Somehow, it stung his nose.
It was the same for Casius.
Powerless before Hientri’s invasion, Hasham disguised Casius as a protective royal family and sent him out.
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.
_____
Please help me, I want to bring you the best possible things.
If you find any chapter or novel with poor translation and editing quality, let me know by commenting directly under that novel or chapter. I will retranslate it as soon as possible.
[Touch the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the screen to move to the next chapter if you want.]
