“There are also black shoes that would match this dress, and if you wear them, you will certainly look like a couple with young master Layton today. Young master Layton also wore black shoes with his deep purple suit today.”
“Let’s go with these.”
At the maid’s suggestion, Nelia instantly chose the white shoes.
As expected, the high heels were difficult to get used to. She walked awkwardly down to the first floor, where her parents had finished preparing.
“Our Nelia, you look like a single violet today.”
Lily looked at Nelia with a touched expression.
Nelia had been feeling something lately.
That Lily was taking good care of her.
Her daughter, who had been uncouth and boisterous, became calm, and Lily seemed to be very happy about it.
On the contrary, the more she acted normally, the more she seemed to be worrying. She wondered when Layton would mature.
Nelia heard Lily mutter to herself.
“I wonder when Layton will grow up…”
She must have been comparing him to her recently and thinking about it.
“You ruined everything because of you!”
Just then, she heard the immature Layton coming down.
Lily, who had been looking at Nelia with a warm gaze, took back her gaze and looked up at the stairs with a tired face.
Soon, Layton appeared with a loud noise and an angry face. Maid Diana was following him, flustered.
“I clearly said I didn’t like these shoes!”
“What’s going on, Layton?”
As Layton came down to the first floor, Lily asked.
“I specifically asked her to bring shiny black shoes, but Diana brought matte leather shoes!”
Oh, that person again.
Seeing Layton making a fuss over nothing and bullying the maid, her face instinctively frowned.
“Leighton, it’s late.”
As his father, Sean, spoke sternly, Leighton reluctantly climbed into the carriage.
He sulked for a long while on the way to the party.
Around the time the grand party hall of the royal palace came into view, Leighton closed his mouth, perhaps tired.
It was the same with Nelia, not out of fatigue, but surprise.
As they opened the door and got off, a colorful landscape filled their vision.
The vast garden was full of people. The brilliance was enough to hurt one’s eyes.
Nelia carefully walked inwards, careful not to trip over the grass with her high heels.
The party hall was even more crowded with people.
“Indeed, there are a lot of people……!”
“Every noble in the capital must have attended. Even Duke Hart, who rarely attends parties, is said to be attending today.”
Lily and Sean spoke as they looked at the party hall. Nelia, who had been quietly listening, hardened her expression.
‘…Duke Hart?’
Nelia, who had forgotten about another protagonist from the novel, couldn’t hide her confusion.
Why hadn’t she thought that Duke Hart would attend this party?
If the Emperor is making a significant announcement, of course, the highranking bureaucrat would attend.
Then, Lily pointed to a spot in the party hall.
“Duke Hart is over there.”
Nelia’s head turned stiffly.
Somehow. Since they entered, people have been buzzing around that spot.
Duke Hart’s face peeked through the crowd.
“Wow…….”
Contrary to her tense heart, Nelia inadvertently let out an exclamation.
This was not the appearance of a human.
Even in the book, there were descriptions praising his looks, but the real thing was completely different.
So much so that the dolledup ladies around him looked monochrome in comparison.
‘Is he really a person…….’
His beautiful, wellproportioned features were closer to being beautiful than handsome.
His silver hair, gleaming in the light, and silver eyes gave an otherworldly beauty, reminiscent of an angel from a myth.
‘But unlike his angelic face…….’
His character was not like that.
In the early part of the novel, Duke Hart was described as a charming secondary male lead who fell in love with the female protagonist at first sight.
However, the mood changed halfway through the story.
In fact, Duke Hart was a villain who slowly took out the emperor’s associates to avenge his father.
The Duke shook and uncovered everything needed for revenge, including the opponent’s house, family, and property.
‘Is that all?’
If necessary, he cut off tongues, destroyed legs, blinded eyes, and he didn’t even blink an eye while doing so.
He was truly the brutal villain of the novel.
“Let’s go and greet Duke Hart, darling.”
“Let’s do that. It’s usually hard to see him at parties.”
Upon hearing her parents’ conversation, Nelia quietly backtracked.
“I will look around the party hall once. Mother, Father, go greet the Duke.”
Others might want to get close to him without knowing his identity, but she wanted to refuse. If she could avoid even a greeting, she wanted to avoid it.
Lily tilted her head and asked.
“Will you be okay alone?”
“Of course, I will come back here after looking around once. Please go ahead.”
“Alright, Nelia. Be careful not to bump into people.”
To a worried Lily, Nelia gave an awkward smile, then swiftly disappeared into the crowd.
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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