In her imagination, she continued to work and save money. Then one day, she boarded a ship heading for the empire.
On a day when a very favorable wind blew, enough for even a large ship to move easily, the tightly filled sails took the force and the ship energetically left the harbor.
And then, beside me at that moment…
Aelfrie’s imagination always stopped there.
Because if she imagined any further, what she wanted became too clear.
Aelfrie touched her flushed cheeks with the back of her hand.
Lately, Aelfrie had realized that she was bolder than she had thought.
She was entertaining ridiculous thoughts about someone who was merely taking better care of her out of pity.
But no matter how much she tried to restrain herself, brazen thoughts stealthily rose in a corner of her heart.
It would be great if Kyle could be my pretend husband.
“Snap out of it.”
He is looking after me just for Ash Commerce.
“Sympathy and affection are different, and I’m old enough to know the difference.”
I shouldn’t misunderstand. Otherwise, even the sympathy he shows me would disappear.
Aelfrie sighed and pulled the documents left by Ino to her. It was a series of numbers that looked randomly written. Of course, she now knew otherwise.
“These are codes.”
What Aelfrie received was a textbook for codebreaking.
Ino had said it was a practice problem prepared by the headquarters to gradually get accustomed to the structure of the codes.
Ino handed them over with a face that seemed to say it nauseated him just by looking, but for Aelfrie, these were delightful puzzles.
“It must be fun. Thank you!”
“Fun, you say? This?”
Ino’s pupils wandered for a while and then he kept his distance from Aelfrie for a few days afterward.
As if she had become some incomprehensible, unknown creature.
Aelfrie picked up the pen. And she started to find the pattern between the numbers.
When Aelfrie was trying to focus, feeling the gradually increasing difficulty, the sound of footsteps came from the corridor.
At that moment, Aelfrie put down her pen and hastily stood up. It was a sound of footsteps that I knew well.
Aelfrie immediately ran to the door and flung it open.
Sure enough.
Right in front of the door stood Kyle, with a surprised expression. He was awkwardly standing there, about to knock, and upon seeing Aelfrie, his eyes twinkled and he smiled.
The moment Aelfrie tried to reciprocate the smile, he opened his mouth.
The moment the door opened, Aelfrie froze in place.
What did Kyle just say?
Although she had heard his words, her brain was having trouble processing them.
Then she suddenly remembered the fantasies she had been indulging in recently.
‘Maybe I’ve really lost it.’
Aelfrie couldn’t think otherwise. After all, unless Kyle had gone mad, there was no reason for him to suddenly say such a thing to her.
Since he wasn’t the one who was mad, the only remaining possibility was that she was the one who had lost it.
“I’m sorry, Kyle. I must have misheard. What did you say?”
“I know this might sound insane, but…”
Kyle spoke with an utterly serious expression.
“Please become my fiancée.”
Swoosh. Aelfrie’s hand, which had been holding the door, fell to her side. The door, pushed by the wind, started to move slowly until…
Bang!
It closed shut with a loud noise.
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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