“Already ignored here, I didn’t want to bring up money and be more pitiful. I didn’t want to become more miserable here.”
“…”
“I’d feel like I was really sold for money. Honestly, that’s true, though.”
Cordelia laughed self-deprecatingly.
A breeze came in through the slightly open window, causing her hair to flutter slightly.
Leonard unconsciously reached out to her, then hesitated. For a moment, it seemed like Cordelia might disappear right before his eyes.
“Right, thank you.”
“Suddenly?”
“Just, for standing up for me at the meal and… it feels really good to have someone else get angry on my behalf. I’ve always had to fight for myself.”
“Hmph.”
Leonard raised his chin and turned his head sharply, then flicked his hand slightly. Cordelia lay back in bed and yawned loudly.
“But why am I so tired? Later, Master, yawn, homework, yawn, inspection.”
She fell asleep mid-sentence. Leonard looked at her sleeping face with a complex expression and then left the room.
“Oh my, how is Cordelia doing? Has she regained consciousness?”
As Leonard exited the room, Baron, who had been hanging around like a dewdrop on a windowpane, asked anxiously. Leonard ignored his question and stated his own business.
“Call Veluce.”
“Huh? That mad dog, ahem, him?”
At the mention of Veluce, Baron reacted instantly, like a bird struck by lightning.
“If he comes to Abrams Castle, won’t it be too noticeable? I may have come here without Maximilian noticing, but if Veluce also…”
“Sooner or later, Maximilian will notice my existence. I can’t keep cowering forever.”
“If you need a limb, wouldn’t it be better to call Sir Mervan instead?”
“When that stiff Gassil appears in this rural place for no reason, Maximilian will immediately find it suspicious. But Veluce, being like a wild dog, he’ll just let it be.”
“But if Veluce comes here…”
Baron, who knew Veluce Ingrian’s personality better than anyone, struggled to continue. With Veluce’s nature of charging ahead regardless of the situation, this small castle would quickly turn upside down.
Despite Baron’s dissuasion, Leonard’s determination was firm. He surveyed the long corridor with a chilly expression.
“This damned castle needs to be sorted out quickly. There’s too much clutter. Those who don’t know their place keep crawling up, which is annoying.”
“……sigh. Understood.”
“And.”
Leonard paused for a moment, causing Baron to hold his breath.
“Find out about Basquez.”
“Basquez? Why? Do you still suspect Cordelia has a connection with Maximilian?”
Baron’s expression instantly turned serious. Leonard was about to say something but then shook his head.
“No, not that. Just… bring me everything. The current head, their assets, all their kin.”
“Yes. Understood.”
As always, Baron obediently bowed and disappeared from sight.
After that day, the castle became eerily quiet.
Not only Helena but also Lily and Arnold were nowhere to be seen by Cordelia.
When she asked Emily about it, she replied with a smug look, “That day, the master fiercely threatened them.”
“Threatened? What kind of threat?”
“If anyone touches the little mistress again, he’ll behead them and hang their heads on the castle gate. The chef who put peanuts in the little mistress’s soup already had his head hanged.”
“Oh…….”
Cordelia felt a surge of gratitude towards Leonard. She thought maybe he cared for her as his student.
“That’s not it. Do it again.”
“Like this?”
“Again.”
“Thi…”
“Again.”
“……”
“Again.”
Her gratitude quickly evaporated.
She practiced magic from morning till night, non-stop.
After spending almost ten hours daily with him, she could guess Leonard’s words just from his gaze or the slightest movement of his lips.
“Do it like…”
“Do it with thought, not just action, right? I get it. Just be quiet.”
“……”
Leonard stared at Cordelia oddly, but she was so focused on the magic that she didn’t notice.
Eventually, after more than two weeks of intense dedication to magic, she successfully created a small magical flame.
“Look! Look at this, Master! Quickly, quickly!”
“Uh-huh. Good.”
“Am I right? I did it, didn’t I?”
“Hmm.”
Unlike Cordelia, who was jumping with joy, Leonard was unimpressed.
“It’s exactly the magic I succeeded at when I was five.”
“But I’m at the level of a five-year-old you, right? That’s not bad for a start, is it?”
“If you’re satisfied being at a five-year-old’s level.”
Ah, if only I could smack that annoying mouth of his.
But she was soon filled with joy over her successful magic.
“Now I understand what you meant. It’s not just the mind but the body that needs to remember.”
“Yes. You have to repeat it thousands, tens of thousands of times until your body remembers it in any situation.”
“Yes. I’ll do that.”
She smiled broadly at Leonard.
Suddenly, he turned his head sharply away, avoiding her gaze, and added gruffly,
“Don’t make a fuss. You’ve only just peeled off the beginner’s label.”
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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