Unrequited Love is Over, Fend for Yourselves (5 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 48
The inn where even Ludvi had decided to stay was guarded hermetically by escort knights.
Although it was an inn catering to nobles, even its owner was tense at the thought that royalty was staying there, worrying something might happen.
Hoping that no intruder would appear…
Meanwhile, Reinhart, who had decided to spend the night in the inn’s most luxurious room, lay sprawled across the table. In front of him lay an overturned cup of half-drunk floral tea, dripping steadily onto the floor beneath the table.
The room where Reinhart had lost consciousness was utterly silent.
That silence was broken by someone’s footsteps. The one who walked in as if he owned the room was Ludvi.
He approached the table and looked down at his collapsed elder brother.
“You truly have refined taste—drinking poison without even realizing it will take your life.”
Ludvi sneered at the floral tea. He already knew the Crown Prince enjoyed drinking it.
It was information he’d consistently received from a steward planted inside the Crown Prince’s palace. He also knew the Prince tried to keep this preference hidden from others.
Thus, it had become the perfect means for Ludvi to exploit.
“If I weren’t here, I’d just slip the poison in and kill you outright… Ah, but maybe you’ve built up resistance, so that wouldn’t work.”
Royalty trained from childhood to develop tolerance against poisons.
Thus, both Reinhart and Ludvi had been gradually consuming small doses of poison. That was precisely why Ludvi had originally planned to kill Reinhart through a staged fall from horseback rather than poison.
Today, making Reinhart lose consciousness wasn’t meant to kill him, but merely to buy some time.
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The Male lead Always Seduces Her with His Beauty (Matriarchy)
Xin Jiao Zhou is the leader of the world’s premier sect. She has just experienced betrayal from all sides, was poisoned in an assassination attempt, and faced death squad attacks while the poison was taking effect. After finally clearing out the scum from her sect, she was drugged again while trying to detoxify.
After waking up from a night of unconsciousness, she gained a “beautiful and kind-hearted” husband.
Xin Jiao Zhou: “???”
He fell ill.
She came to see him, bringing breakfast.
As she put down the breakfast and was about to leave, his hand slipped while holding the spoon. “Clank!”
She turned around upon hearing the noise.
He looked up at her, his eyebrows drooping: “My hand… has no strength.”
“Shall I… feed you?” she asked tentatively.
He opened his mouth cheerfully: “Ah—”
Thinking she was drowning, he jumped in without hesitation to save her, but nearly drowned himself. In the end, it was she who swam over to rescue him, giving him air underwater.
After emerging from the water, his ear tips turned red. He lightly brushed his cheek, tucking his sideburns behind his ear, revealing delicate, pink-tinged ear tips. He lowered his gaze, too embarrassed to look at her.
Xin Jiao Zhou: He’s truly beautiful, kind-hearted, and adorable.
A certain someone when disciplining subordinates behind the scenes: “If they don’t obey, just kill them.”
What’s that? She might already have someone she cares about in her heart? A certain someone: Find out who it is, kill them, and then there won’t be anyone.
What? She met a man by the riverside? What? That man even hurt her? A certain someone: Whichever hand hurt her, chop off his entire arm.
Love at first sight without realizing it, gradually falling in love, slowly getting closer…
Family and national grudges, schemes and desires, good and evil, crime and punishment, she and he face the future together, seeking justice with passion!
A naturally dark female lead who could accidentally destroy the world but is actually an honest person VS a weak, pitiful, and helpless but skilled fighter, beautiful white-cut black male lead
My heart is not of stone, how steadfast is your love? — Tao Yuanming “Imitating the Ancients (No. 3)”
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Cold female lead & dramatic black lotus with hidden yandere traits male lead
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