Certainly, I will translate the passage according to the given guidelines. Here is the translated passage:
“How was it?”
Terion quickly followed Casius.
He left the banquet hall not long after entering, without even looking back, and walked away briskly.
He wondered what had happened inside.
“Sir Casius!”
“The Emperor is mad.”
Casius said, grinding his teeth.
The veins stood out on his thick neck.
The uniform he wore to comply with the royal etiquette seemed very uncomfortable for Casius.
His swollen chest seemed about to burst the buttons of his shirt.
Casius suddenly stopped and turned his head sharply.
The dim light of the banquet hall was still within sight.
“Has the Emperor being mad been a one or twoday thing? Sir Casius, did you get what was promised, though?”
Terion stood in Casius’s view, as if frustrated.
“If it continues like this, all our previous efforts will truly become wasted efforts. Will the Emperor give you what he promised?”
No matter how much Terion ranted, the only thing that remained in Casius’s mind was one person.
The Empress.
Even in such a situation, a woman who smiled with a dead expression.
And yet, a mysterious woman who brightened her eyes with anger and hatred.
Her delicate and small frame seemed too weak to be controlled by the Emperor, but she harbored a pressure that weighed on Casius.
It was visible to Casius’s eyes, well concealed inside her.
A woman too precious to be mad at by the mad Emperor.
“Sir Casius! What on earth are you thinking about?”
Terion raised his voice in frustration.
“……What was the Empress’s name?”
“Eh? Why are you asking that all of a sudden? If it’s the Empress… isn’t it Lenisha Lotera?”
“Lotera?”
Casius lowered his gaze to Terion.
Casius knew Lotera as well.
In this war, there were two knights who lost their lives unfairly before Casius went into battle.
They shouldn’t have gone out to battle. The ambush was sure, and the number of allies was few.
From the beginning, the Emperor had started an unreasonable war.
The Emperor had pushed the back of the Duke of Lotera to regain the Chorpa Plain, which was once the land of Hilstain.
There was no support from the royal family.
The Duke of Lotera had to organize a new order of knights with his family knights.
It was only possible to deploy because there were several nobles supporting the Lotera ducal family.
The war that unfolded with the Chorpa Plain of the Ferisen Kingdom in the middle had been going on for eight years.
That time was enough to grow a boy into a young man.
Casius too had grown up eating the food prepared by several knights on the battlefield.
Then, by making a merit, he directly met the Duke of Lotera.
“……You made a great contribution in this battle. No, now I should call you Sir. Sir Casius.”
His gently curved eyes were tinged with hardship and the passage of time.
But it was a beautiful gaze that never gave in.
The Duke of Lotera was no different from the noble black leopard that the knights talked about.
Casius admired the Duke of Lotera.
On the day the Duke of Lotera died, Casius rudely burst into his deathbed to stop him.
The knights trying to stop him could not stop Casius, who pushed them away like a bull.
“You’ll die if you go. Even the errand children here know that. Don’t you know from the beginning that the Emperor pushed you into a place to die? Rather, strike the Emperor’s neck with that sword!”
Casius’s golden eyes blurred.
The memory of that day was reviving.
Even things like the smell of sulfur on the battlefield and the foul odor from the blacksmith’s forge.
“There are things in the world that you can do but should not, Sir Casius.”
“What on earth is the reason? Do you still the Emperor……”
“My daughter.”
The Duke of Lotera cut off Casius’s words.
“Is my daughter held captive by the Emperor? Must I beg for my life at the expense of my daughter’s life? You must also have something you want to protect.”
Casius opened his mouth, but he could do nothing but breathe.
The hand of Duke Rotera, patting his shoulder, was soaked with an indescribable sorrow.
“…If you see my daughter, tell her. That I never blame you. That it’s not something that happened because of you… Tell her I love her. If I knew it would turn out like this, I would have treated her more tenderly. You wouldn’t know how pretty my daughter’s smiling face is. And it seems like I will never see that face again. Haha…”
And that was truly Duke Rotera’s last moment.
Casius clearly remembered the lonely last moment of the abandoned hero.
He watched the backs of Duke Rotera and the Duchess until the end.
Casius grew up following Duke Rotera.
From the day he escaped the life of an 18yearold slave gladiator and joined his army.
He was under Duke Rotera’s protection and received his grace.
“Rotera.”
“Yes, that Rotera.”
Terion also knew the weight of the name and became solemn.
Terion sighed.
“Have you seen Empress Lenisha? How did she look?”
The knights who followed Rotera all knew Lenisha.
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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