“What…… are you talking about?”
Mirabel asked, staring coldly at Monica with her icy eyes.
“I saw it at that time. The expression on Miss Liz’s face when Count Berth put a necklace on Miss Lilia.”
“…….”
“A face that was dying of envy.”
Monica smirked with a sly smile as if she was slightly proud.
“So, I thought maybe you wanted it too.”
“You’ve guessed wrong. It has nothing to do with Miss.”
Mirabel barely managed to calm her excitement as she spoke. Otherwise, something would have already flown off.
“I see. I must have misunderstood.”
“You misunderstood a lot. How could you make such a speculation?”
The two of them had spoken in such hushed voices that the frustration was clearly visible on the faces of the junior attendants standing behind them.
Monica whispered in an even softer voice.
“But honestly, Miss Liz does have that side to her, doesn’t she? If she gets fixated on something, she will use any means to make it hers.”
And in an even quieter voice…
“She did the same with Kain.”
Thunk.
Mirabel heard the sound of her sanity snapping.
She could endure anything else, but she couldn’t bear the insult of associating Miss with Kain.
Mirabel grabbed Monica’s hair in an instant.
As adept at her job as she was, her hand twirled the hair with equal finesse.
“How dare you insult whom?”
“Kyaaak!”
Monica was thrown around lifelessly. She reached out to try something, but she couldn’t even grab a strand of Mirabel’s hair.
The junior attendants, except for one quickthinking child who ran off somewhere, simply stood there and stared blankly.
They remained that way for a while, providing a spectacle for the weary juniors.
“What is going on here?”
A calm voice, far from the chaos, reached them.
Mirabel slowly loosened her grip. The one who stopped them was Lilia.
She couldn’t be holding a servant’s hair in front of her master.
“Miss…….”
Freed from Mirabel’s grip, Monica rushed to Lilia.
Hoohoohoo. Considering how Monica’s crying sounded like laughter, I really must have lost my sanity.
A faint smile mixed with selfmockery escaped Mirabel’s lips.
Lilia looked at the disheveled Monica in shock for a moment. Then she turned to Mirabel and asked sharply.
“What exactly happened here?”
Her voice carried a dignity befitting a lady.
As Mirabel hesitated, unable to answer with her eyes narrowed, Monica spoke through her sobs.
“Mirabel stole Miss’s necklace. And she lied about not stealing it after I only asked her once, heehee…….”
My necklace?
Lilia’s questioning eyes turned to the necklace in Monica’s hand.
It took quite some time to recognize it.
It was indeed her necklace.
The necklace she had received from Count Berth, worn right there and then, torn off as soon as she returned to her room, and stuffed deep into the jewelry box.
The tearing marks remained clearly on the broken clasp as Lilia slowly approached Mirabel, taking it all in.
“Is this true?”
Mirabel’s shoulders flinched slightly at the cold and chilling tone.
No.
Her mouth wouldn’t open to speak.
“I will ask you once more. Is this really true?”
Lilia stopped a short distance away and asked the same question.
Mirabel knew the situation was already quite unfavorable to her.
It seemed best not to say that she picked it up from the floor.
Nobody would believe that, and it sounded like a lame excuse even to herself.
Involving Liz was absolutely out of the question.
There was only one option.
“I’m sorry.”
“…….”
“I did steal it.”
Zap.
When she came to, Mirabel’s face had sharply turned to one side.
She thought Lilia was frail, but her slap was quite sharp. It undoubtedly carried emotion. Mirabel thought, touching her stinging cheek.
Thinking about it that way, I could hold back my tears.
In the end, my thoughts were correct.
“Don’t get close to Miss Lilia. She seems different in front and behind.”
“Why did I hit you, you know?”
Lilia continued without waiting for a response.
“It’s not because you stole the necklace. It’s not because you didn’t repent for your mistake and harmed my servant.”
“…….”
“It’s because your wrong attitude insulted my sister.”
Lilia said, her eyes filled with regret.
“How much my sister trusted and relied on you, how upset would she be if she knew about this? Right?”
“…….”
“I’ll cover today’s incident. I won’t even tell my mother or sister. Especially not my sister. I don’t want to see my noble sister get hurt because of this.”
At that moment, Lilia looked incredibly compassionate and generous in the eyes of the servants.
The thought that she had slapped her cheek too hard earlier had already disappeared.
Lilia gently pulled away Mirabel’s hand that covered her swollen cheek, enclosing it with both of her hands.
Then, with an unearthly kind smile, she ended the admonition.
“I hope there won’t be such an incident again, Mirabel. A servant is the face of the master.”
While Mirabel bit her inner cheek until it bled, the watching servants were moved to tears.
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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