It was difficult. The maids watching and Yurik seemed to expect a wise answer from me. The problem was that the answer wasn’t what Yune wanted.

I thought about what response to give in a short time.

“Look, Yune. I can’t answer because it’s uncomfortable……”

“Brother, be quiet!”

Yune swallowed Yurik’s words. Flustered, Yurik slightly protruded his lips but couldn’t retort at all. Witnessing this up close, I quickly grasped the Fenton siblings’ food chain structure.

Yune is a little higher up!

“Sister Lise. Speak comfortably now.”

“No. That……you’re cute?”

That was the reason I spat out the answer Yune wanted.

“As expected! Unlike brother’s words, Sister Lise says I’m cute. Brother, come here and sit down. Oh, before that, it would be good to spread the cushion!”

Yune spread a cushion on the spot I found and comfortably sat there. As I hesitated beside her, Yune forcefully grabbed my wrist and even made me sit down.

Suddenly taking a seat beside Yune, Yurik’s expression hardened.

“…….”

‘The glance is pretty harsh.’

He still seemed uncomfortable with my presence. Not sitting down and quietly sighing, he moved his feet.

“I’ll go buy juice.”

“Why? You can ask the maid for juice.”

“I want to go.”

“Then Yune will have orange juice! Sister?”

Yune looked at me.

“I don’t need it…….”

“Huh? You don’t have to refuse! Brother said he would buy!”

That made me want to refuse even more.

I glanced at Yurik, and he scowled as if urging me to answer quickly.

“I’ll have the same.”

“……Sigh.”

Yurik let out a big sigh and went to buy juice. As soon as his figure disappeared, Yune wore a blank expression.

“Brother is always like that. Whenever I’m friendly with someone, he always seems displeased. Does he wish Yune had no friends?”

Yurik’s behavior was not inexplicable. The only peers Yune could befriend around here were the local nobles, but Yurik did not view them favorably.

It was since Yune came home once, heavily teased by the local nobles. Thinking about the original story, Yurik also had attended school around this time but soon dropped out.

There was a level difference, but it was also because he hated the vain and conceited peers.

「They all disguise themselves, but they don’t expose their black insides. There were only such nobles in this town.」

The Marsen family was naturally included.

“Sister? What are you thinking?”

“Oh, nothing. Just that you and your brother seem close…….”

“You have many siblings too, right? I heard from mom, in your family, there are a total of six siblings?”

Yune was eager, perhaps envious, and pestered me to talk about my siblings.

“Do you like having many siblings? How is it?”

“It’s more noisy than good.”

It would have felt like walking in heaven if all the siblings were as gentle and affectionate as Yurik. Unfortunately, reality was different.

Most of my siblings teased and bullied me. Yet, since they didn’t outright hate me, I couldn’t hate them either.

If there was a sibling who showed mutual affection, it was Rodney, who is currently living in a boarding school.

“Isn’t it nice to be noisy?”

“It’s not necessarily good. They all tease me.”

“Really? Yune has never been teased by brother! Although brother has gotten angry at me……sometimes.”

Yurik seemed to get angry at times too.

“But I like my brother. But he said he wants to go to a boarding school later.”

“You can go to a boarding school from fourteen, right? There’s still plenty of time left?”
“But I don’t want to be apart from you now, or in the years to come.”

Unfortunately, according to the novel, Yurik attends a prestigious private boarding school as soon as he turns fourteen.

There, making new friends with similar thoughts and acquiring wisdom, Yurik treasured that time in the future.

“If you really go to boarding school, who will I play with? Hmm… Sis won’t be going to school?”

“Yes.”

Isabel would never let him go.

“Ah, I heard that you have to be good at studying to go to boarding school. Sis is not good at studying?”

“…….”

“Then Sis, play with me!”

“Huh?”

“I’ll show you my treasures!”

The maids approached, carrying large bags. They were filled with various toys and dolls. Yune bragged to me that they were all precious.

“This is a snakeshaped toy!”

The toys’ forms and shapes were all unusual. They were eerie and even somewhat creepy.

For example, a decapitated puppet toy in Yune’s hand, or dice with cursed words. They seemed far from ordinary.

Is there nothing normal?

Soon, I found a rabbit doll with a big red ribbon on its head. The snowwhite and roundeyed cuteness kept catching my eye.

“……Ah, that doll? Cute!”

“It suits you well.”

“No! That’s the doll Brother cherishes most!”

“……Huh?”

“He takes it everywhere he goes. He even sleeps, holding that doll.”

“Who, who?”

“Brother!”

I thought I had heard wrong, but Yune repeated it precisely. I picked up the rabbit doll and looked at its appearance. Was there something hidden inside its body?

“Huh? Brother!”

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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