Lilia’s room on the second floor was currently empty.
Occasionally, a servant came and went to clean the owner’s room, but there was little to clean, as Lilia’s room was famous for being neatly organized.
Liz briefly looked around to see if anyone was there, and headed towards Lilia’s room. However, Lilia’s room was not her target. Her goal was Kain’s room, which was on the same floor.
Arriving at the small door at the end of the hallway, Liz carefully turned the doorknob and pushed it open. She was slightly startled by a faint creaking sound, but fortunately, no one was around.
Liz was able to safely step into the room.
“Wow, His Highness the Crown Prince lived in a room like this?”
The room was even worse than what she had only read about.
With dingy wallpaper, the only furniture was a bed and a wardrobe. Even her previous life’s goshiwon (a type of small, cheap apartment in Korea) seemed more luxurious.
How could someone of such noble status live in such a shabby room for nearly ten years?
Suddenly, Liz realized that she had never visited his room before. Had she not truly liked him but simply possessed a simple desire to own him? She hadn’t been curious about this situation at all.
Of course, she wasn’t here because she was curious about Kain’s living conditions. Liz had a different purpose.
Liz fumbled through her memory of the original work.
“He took out the hidden medicine from under the third wooden plank of the floor and swallowed it. Soon after, his appearance changed.”
Following the content, Liz carefully lifted the plank located three spaces to the left of the head of the bed using a folding knife.
“Wow, it’s true?”
Indeed, as in the original work, there was a bottle of medicine inside, and dozens of pills were inside the bottle. There was also a scroll that seemed to contain the method of production.
Liz held the bottle and looked at it in wonder.
“If I eat this, will my appearance really change?”
There was quite a bit of medicine inside, so it didn’t seem like one missing pill would be noticed right away. Liz opened the cap and tilted the bottle to take out one pill.
Then she hesitated before swallowing it without thinking.
“How much should I eat? In the original, Kain ate three pills every ten days. So one pill lasts a little over three days, right?”
What Liz needed was a change of only a few hours. A brief, mysterious experience was enough.
Liz quartered the pill she was holding with the folding knife. Then she swallowed one piece and wrapped the remaining three in a napkin and put them in her pocket.
A moment later…
“Aaaargh[Dash]!”
(Here is a time delimiter.)
What’s that?
It seemed like she heard a sound.
“Over there, Kain……”
“……”
“Kain?”
Kain, who had been looking elsewhere, suddenly came to his senses and turned his gaze to the person calling him.
It was Lilia. Lilia approached Kain with a worried face and asked,
“What’s the matter? You don’t look well?”
“No.”
Kain quickly changed his expression and replied.
“Is there anything you want me to do?”
“No, nothing like that. Just sit down and rest a bit.”
Lilia said, smiling prettily.
In fact, she was irritated by the blatant courtship of Bert, the minor duke.
He had tried to win her favor with all sorts of flowers and jewels, and it had annoyed her to pretend to be grateful.
But the effort was not entirely in vain.
Every time she smiled kindly at Bert, the minor duke, and was touched by his gifts, Kain’s expression stiffened slightly.
‘It seems to bother him.’
Lilia was satisfied inwardly. That’s why she treated the minor duke more affectionately. She even subtly held his hand and lightly dusted his shoulder.
But Kain was thinking something entirely different.
Forced into this place, he was in a very uncomfortable state. It was an opportunity to be with Liz after a long time, but he had been driven away like this.
‘Just wait, Liz Berium.’
While firmly grumbling inwardly, he faintly heard Liz’s voice from beyond the thicket.
Liz couldn’t be here, and the earldom was quite far away. It was strange.
It must have been a misunderstanding.
“You can take a break.”
Lilia said something different to Kain, who was trying to stay by her side.
“It’s okay. It’s my job.”
In truth, Kain also wanted to rest, but he felt that if he stayed still, he would continue to hear hallucinations.
Hallucinations?
Suddenly, he chuckled.
They say they don’t know human affairs, but it was just a season ago that the woman, who wasn’t horrible, has become someone who clouds his mind to this extent.
“I might see hallucinations soon.”
He muttered with a touch of selfmockery.
But seeing the flirting between Lilia and Count Bert, he somehow thought it wouldn’t be so bad to see Liz’s hallucination.
At least it wouldn’t be as boring as it is now.
(This is a time delimiter.)
“Ugh… please… save me.”
Liz gritted her teeth and tried hard to swallow her scream.
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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