Mia didn’t believe her. Just a while ago, when she entered the living room and tried to talk to her, she just sighed without even noticing.
“No, there is a problem.”
Every year, after attending the Emperor’s birthday banquet, Adel became more talkative than usual. She would even mess up the kitchen by making cookies and bread.
It was her way of trying to hide her hurt by deliberately acting cheerful.
‘But what’s this reaction?’
Did she have a big concern?
As she squinted her eyes and scrutinized, Adel held Mia’s hand.
“Really, there was no problem. So don’t worry, Mia. His Majesty enjoyed the cookies I made, and even Seira was quiet. This banquet was really fun.”
“But why are you sighing so deeply?”
“Me?”
“It must be one of the two. Either you have a big worry, or you’ve fallen in love. But you falling in love……”
“Mia, let’s have tea! I happen to have some delicious black tea!”
Adel, who quickly got up from her seat, suddenly had rosy cheeks.
Mia’s eyes widened.
“Adel! Are you really in love?”
“Are you crazy? I, in love……”
As Adel shook her head as if it was ridiculous, Mia carefully asked.
“Not… him, right?”
“Him?”
“Count Christine Weiss.”
“……!”
Adel almost tripped on the hem of her skirt.
Mia sighed as if she knew this would happen.
“Oh my God, you too?”
“What do you mean, ‘you too’?”
“The rumors were that Count Weiss appeared at this banquet. And they said he set the banquet hall on fire with his otherworldly beauty. I can’t believe you fell for him too……”
“No, it’s not like that!”
Adel unknowingly raised her voice.
“I’m glad it’s not.”
“Of course!”
But Mia didn’t believe her. Adel rarely looked flustered.
Anyway, she was really curious. Count Weiss, the empire’s hero and a wealthy man, was a curiosity for many. She thought the rumor that he was a handsome man was just a rumor created by the maids.
But if he can captivate even Adel, who usually finds men disgusting……
Is he really a cheat character?
‘No wonder even the emperor is coveting him.’
Mia sincerely advised her worried friend.
“I’m just saying, just in case. If you have any feelings for Count Weiss, give up. He is soon to be the emperor’s soninlaw.”
“Soninlaw?”
Adel’s expression hardened.
“The rumor is that he will be promoted to duke soon, and he’s to be engaged to the princess. By the time they marry, he will be a duke.”
Mia’s husband was in charge of the Royal Family’s documents. He was a lowranking official, but thanks to him, she was well informed about the royal family’s affairs. Seeing Mia speak so much, it seemed almost certain.
“So, he’s getting married to Princess April?”
“Yes, the crown prince is still young, so His Majesty needs a reliable soninlaw. To deal with the Elders.”
In the Calim Empire, there was an ‘Aristocratic Elders Assembly’ consisting of five prestigious families. The empress usually came from the families of this Assembly.
But the current empress was not from a good family, and the emperor did not have a good relationship with the Assembly.
Moreover, the heir, the Crown Prince, was still a child.
For such an emperor, a reliable soninlaw who can be a solid right hand was needed. A young and capable nobleman who is not from the Elders’ families, but who can stand against them!
‘You really are amazing, Chris.’
Adel was proud of Christine.
It was an amazing feat for the son of a miner to become a count, let alone the emperor’s soninlaw.
But why did her heart feel so empty?
“Adel… are you alright?”
Mia looked at Adel’s expression and asked.
It was as if she had heard the wedding news of the man she loved.
“Of course. What’s there to be not alright about?”
Adel lifted her sleeve with a beaming smile.
“I can’t do this. I’m hungry. Let’s make something to eat. Do you prefer bread or pie? Let’s make plenty and share with others too!”
She was heading cheerfully to the kitchen.
“A guest, a guest!”
Tanya, who was returning from shopping, rushed in frantically.
Tanya was the maid who had followed Adel when she was expelled from the Oswald household. She was Adel’s only maid, but now she was no less than a family member.
“A guest?”
Adel, taking Tanya’s basket, asked anxiously.
The only guests who would come to find her were either those sent from the Oswald family, or people who came to slander her as a villainess who had poisoned her husband.
There was no chance for a pleasant guest to arrive.
“I don’t know who. I saw a big carriage following and just ran here. What do we do now?”
“Don’t worry. If it’s a strange guy, I’ll chase him out even if I have to hit him.”
Mia bravely clenched the poker in front of the fireplace.
“Then I’ll throw this and hit his head!”
Tanya also picked up a potato the size of a fist from her basket.
Seeing them, Adel quietly laughed and said calmly.
“You all don’t have to do that. If we feed him poisoned tea, that will be the end of it.”
Huh.
Mia and Tanya were flabbergasted. Even though she was falsely accused as a poison specialist, they wondered how she could make such a joke.
Neigh!
At that time, the sound of a horse’s cry came from the small mansion garden.
Mia ran to the window and quickly pulled the curtain.
A large, luxurious carriage was parked in front of the garden, covered with a thick layer of snow.
“Who is it? It’s the first time I’ve seen that family’s crest…”
Murmuring, Mia soon gasped with a stunned face.
“Adel, it’s certain that he’s here to slander you!”
“Who is it?”
Mia quickly added, looking at the pale Adel.
“If that man proposes with a bouquet of flowers, you’ll surely die of a heart attack.”
“What?”
The door of the carriage opened, and people holding huge bouquets of flowers came out one by one.
But the reason why Mia was stunned was because the man standing among the flowers was more beautiful than the flowers themselves.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“It’s cold, have some tea first.”
Adel extended the warm tea that Tanya had prepared.
Now only she and Christine were in the house.
Mia, sensing the atmosphere, had taken Tanya to her house.
But Christine didn’t even look at the tea. He didn’t sit down as if he was about to leave at any moment.
And he asked bluntly.
“Why did you just disappear that day?”
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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