Casius helped the limping Lenisha towards the kitchen.
Knights surrounded the small child hidden away.
From the way they hesitated and stood, it was clear that they couldn’t utter a single word to Tesha.
When Lenisha appeared, the knights naturally made way.
Casius and Lenisha passed through.
As they approached, they heard a stifled cry.
It was the sound of miserable weeping without even a noise.
The child’s hair, sticking out between large sacks of potatoes, was cut short.
Nevertheless, Lenisha saw Isabella from the child’s fragment.
The child who had promised to go on a picnic when the season of falling leaves came, crossing fingers.
Though Isabella must have known the situation that Lenisha or Lotera faced, she always smiled innocently.
The child must have known how comforting that sight was to adults. She was a precocious child.
Lenisha let go of Casius and crouched down.
“Isabella.”
Lenisha called the child in a soft voice.
The shaking child stopped for a moment.
She seemed to recognize the name.
“Isabella.”
Lenisha called the child’s name with more force this time.
“Come out.”
She chose the most tender voice she could muster to coax the child.
“I missed you, Isabella.”
It was when Lenisha spoke with a sigh in her voice.
A face soaked with tears comically popped up between the sacks of potatoes.
The child opened her mouth wide.
Cries mixed with disjointed words burst out.
“Huu, huueeong, I, I too… huuong… lo, look… uaaaaaaang!”
Lenisha beckoned with a faint smile.
“Come here, child.”
“Aunt…!”
The child called Lenisha clearly.
A light blossomed in Lenisha’s heart.
Isabella was one of the reasons Lenisha was still alive.
If they could find the other two known survivors, that would be enough.
“Hurry.”
Lenisha urged the child.
She wanted to hug Isabella and keep mulling over the fact that this wasn’t a lie.
To say that Lenisha’s living was not in vain.
That it was proof of her life.
Someone picked up Isabella, who was floundering between the bags as big as herself and couldn’t get out easily.
Actually, Isabella, who couldn’t see well because she was sobbing, blinked.
Thick teardrops fell.
Casius, who placed Isabella in front of Lenisha, pressed her head firmly and then released his hand.
“Go.”
At the touch on her back, Isabella turned her head to look at Lenisha.
She who still had her arms spread out to her.
Isabella burst into tears and ran into Lenisha’s embrace.
Lenisha hugged the child tightly.
She stroked the child’s much thinner back and examined her all over.
Fortunately, she didn’t seem to be seriously injured.
“Isabella…”
There must have been a long and arduous story.
Isabella should have been Tesha, and her pink eyes should have turned grey.
The reason why the girl lived as a boy.
But now, that wasn’t what mattered.
Lenisha tightened her embrace.
“I will never… never leave you alone again. I promise, auntie.”
“Huuueeeong… Auntie…”
Isabella nodded her head vigorously. Lenisha bit her lip hard.
Her anger towards Lexus deepened.
If not for Lexus, Isabella wouldn’t have ended up like this.
The child would have grown up healthy in a loving family home.
If not for him!
Lenisha gritted her teeth.
She looked forward to the day she would get retribution for all this misery.
The flames in Lenisha’s heart grew in size.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Canaria burst into a joyous laugh.
Lenisha is not coming back!
With a maybe in her heart, she had been anxious all day.
For some reason, Lexsus was cooped up in his room, drinking.
It must be a complicated heart.
What’s so complicated about highranking people?
Isn’t it just that what’s good is good, and what’s bad is bad?
Lexus couldn’t completely let go of Lenisha.
If you’re going to do that, be careful with her. What is a monk doing, miserably throwing her away?
“Idiot.”
Canaria puckered her lips.
Nevertheless, it seemed like a foregone conclusion that Lenisha wouldn’t return.
That pleased Canaria.
She didn’t have to see that unfortunate face in the palace anymore.
“Go and get the dress made of gold thread, Barbara.”
“Yes!”
Even late at night, Barbara didn’t hesitate to dress Canaria in a dress embroidered with gold thread.
Wearing the Empress’s tiara, secretly made on her head, Canaria twirled around the room.
“You look beautiful, Your Majesty.”
Barbara matched Canaria’s pace.
Canaria imitated Lenisha, gracefully greeting with a gesture.
She had been practicing by closely observing Lenisha.
For today, when such a day came!
“Thank you, Barbara.”
Chin up, haughtily said Canaria, taking a turn around the room.
“What’s on the schedule for tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow is… Your Majesty’s coronation, isn’t it!”
“Ah… It would be really nice if it were true. But it will be soon?”
Canaria clasped her lower belly.
“I need to have a child before nonsense comes out of the noble conference.”
“There will be good news, Lady Canaria.”
Barbara comforted Canaria.
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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