The rustling of the grass in the wind was like soft music, and the cold scent of the water filled the air. It was a peaceful moment.
It had been like this before. Her senses were so focused on the fallen Fernando that she couldn’t notice anything else, but her senses remembered.
“That was when I fell for Fernando…”
Resting her head on her knees, Etienne gazed at Fernando’s face. His forehead, fully exposed as his hair was pushed back, was smooth, his thick eyebrows framing long eyelashes.
His high, sleek nose and fuller lips for a man made his face more than just handsome.
When she first rescued him and looked into his face, Etienne thought she had saved an angel from the lake.
Her heart fell for him helplessly, love at first sight. Reliving that moment now felt strange.
“That’s right.”
Sixteen-year-old Etienne had given her heart to Fernando. Recalling those innocent times, she smiled lightly, then looked back at Fernando.
Originally, she would have run to call for help, as Fernando hadn’t awakened. But this time she didn’t, knowing he would wake up soon.
She later learned that a drowned person needs air blown into their lungs to breathe again.
But Etienne didn’t know that and had left Fernando, yet he woke up fine shortly after.
In other words, there was no need to run breathlessly again in her soaking wet dress. Etienne, looking at Fernando’s handsome forehead, suddenly reached out and smacked it.
“You should have told me that your family has the power of water. Do you know how surprised I was back then?”
Thinking about the ordeal she had gone through, Etienne felt that the slap she just gave him was not enough. To make matters worse, Fernando had mistakenly thought someone other than Etienne had saved him.
“It was me who saved you from the lake, not Hana.”
Etienne reached out again and pinched Fernando’s nose, subtly taking revenge for the hurt feelings she had harbored in the past.
When Etienne had called for help and returned to Fernando, he was not alone. A girl of her age, Hana, was by his side.
Etienne should have said it was her who saved him, but seeing them so close, she couldn’t bring herself to speak.
“Why did I do that?” she thought. Back then, she didn’t want to interfere between them.
“Well, it’s nobody’s fault.”
How could Fernando, who had lost consciousness, know who had saved him? He must have assumed Hana saved him because she was there.
“But I still feel resentful.”
Etienne slapped Fernando’s forehead again.
Initially, she had started hitting him lightly out of hurt feelings for not recognizing her as his rescuer. But as she remembered more instances of his indifference towards her, she began to slap harder.
Fernando’s face, having regained its color, turned red on the forehead. Etienne, thinking she might have gone too far, hesitated to continue when Fernando’s eyelashes fluttered.
“Oh?”
His eyelids slowly lifted, revealing the gem-like eyes that Etienne often wondered if a deity had embedded.
She had longed to see those sparkling eyes look at her, but now she found the situation awkward. She knew he would wake up, but it happened sooner than she expected.
In the silence where no one spoke, Fernando’s gaze shifted sideways. Seeing his eyes move towards her awkwardly raised hand, Etienne changed the direction and waved her hand from side to side.
“Hi?”
She wasn’t sure if greeting him was the right thing to do in this situation.
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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