As Aelfrie refused to accept it with a cynical smile, Jenna held out the envelope as if to say to check for yourself, showing Aelfrie the part where the recipient’s name was written.

“Aelfrie… Lue… Aradis. See, it’s your name, Miss!”

Reading the letters as Aelfrie had taught her, Jenna shrugged her shoulders as if to say that she was not mistaken.

Only then did Aelfrie take the invitation from Jenna. Indeed, the name on the invitation was hers.

“Who sent this?”

Aelfrie looked for the sender, her face growing stern.

“Why would this person send it to me?”

“Why? Who is it?”

Noticing Aelfrie’s unusual expression, Jenna glanced at the sender’s part and realized why she had not noticed the sender’s name when she brought the invitation.

The recipient’s name was written in the continental common language, but the sender’s name was written in ancient language.

Even though she was ignorant of the etiquette of the nobles, Jenna realized immediately.

The sender of this invitation was deliberately ignoring Aelfrie.

Aelfrie couldn’t help but notice either. Rather, both should have been written in ancient language, but the fact that they were written in different languages showed the intent. Moreover, the sender was…

‘Countess Lenox’s daughter, Lienna Abigail Lenox.’

She was the very woman competing with Elize for the Grand Duke.

Aelfrie could not pretend not to know her name.

Maya would often bring up her name in annoyance, and Elize too had mentioned her name several times in irritation.

For such a person to send me an invitation.

And that too an invitation that clearly showed contempt.

Aelfrie opened the envelope and took out the invitation. It was written in ancient language, inviting her to a tea party.

“Miss, this is ancient language, right? It’s not a drawing?”

Jenna, who had been peering at the side, frowned at the ancient language inside the invitation.

It was understandable. The ancient language written inside the invitation was, to put it nicely, a very archaic script, or to put it badly, something that had abandoned readability for beauty, something that couldn’t even be called a letter.

‘I’m glad I like ancient language.’

When she was young, the cheap home teacher hired by the Aradis couple for very basic education loved ancient language.

That person was very pleased with Aelfrie’s interest in ancient language and taught her everything she knew.

Aelfrie desperately learned ancient language to read the old books in the house library.

That was because the books that Lord Aradis had bought for show were all such books.

Thanks to that, she was able to easily read what was written in an old script that even the academy professors struggled to read.

“What is written? Is it really an invitation?”
“An invitation indeed…….”

There was nothing special about it. The typical message stated that a modest tea party was planned in the Count’s garden to welcome the approaching summer and that attendance was requested to grace the occasion.

The slight difference was the mention of sending a carriage from my family.

Aelfrie took off her apron. This invitation required consultation.

“I’ll be upstairs for a moment.”

(This is a time separator.)

Aelfrie stood in front of Elize’s room, took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.

“Come in.”

A sluggish response from Elize returned, possibly thinking it was her maid. Aelfrie entered the room.

Unlike the wornout room on the fourth floor where I was staying, Elize’s room was adorned with silk wallpaper and a clean carpet.

Moreover, it was filled with a refreshing floral scent, freshly cut and placed in the morning, instead of a damp wood smell.

“What is it, you?”

As Aelfrie entered, Elize, who had been sitting in a rocking chair on the balcony, turned her head and looked with an incredulous expression.

It was no surprise, for Aelfrie had never entered her room like this before.

Aelfrie, instead of replying, handed over the invitation she had received.

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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