You Can't Catch the Wind - Chapter 5

Naturally, those with such power became the first royal family.

Thereafter, those with power continued the royal lineage, and being an inheritor of the Golden Rule became proof of noble blood.

But as time passed, the power weakened. Moreover, as technology began to surpass the power of the Golden Rule, the methods of using the Golden Rule’s power were quickly forgotten.

Of course, the prestige of the Golden Rule also lost its strength compared to the past.

Nevertheless, there were still people who were obsessed with the fact that they possessed this power.

They were the nobles of Denertum. And Ael’s father was one who was particularly obsessed with the Golden Rule among them.

Until the previous generation, the Aradis Viscount family was born with a faint Golden Rule. But in Ael’s grandfather’s generation, that power completely disappeared. From then on, the family rapidly declined.

Of course, the reason for the decline was that both the grandfather and father were incompetent people who fell into gambling.

Naturally, Ael’s father, unwilling to admit his own incompetence, thought that the family’s downfall was due to the absence of a Golden Rule inheritor.

This thought soon turned into an obsession. He believed that if the Golden Rule flowed in the bloodline of the viscount family again, the family would also prosper once more.

There was only one way to return the power of the Golden Rule to the family. It was to marry someone with strong Golden Rule power and have offspring.

But the Golden Rule had long lost its power throughout the continent. Recently, even most of the royal family members were born without the Golden Rule.

The few remaining strong Golden Rule possessors were from families that the Aradis Viscount couldn’t even dream of approaching.

The Aradis Viscount didn’t give up.

After continually searching, he finally found the person he wanted. A woman with the Golden Rule from a noble family even poorer than his own.

Usually, such a person would be secretly offered money by a high noble family and taken as a wife for their second or third son.

But the woman had a fatal weakness. Her body was so weak that it was difficult for her to bear children.

The Aradis Viscount sold his remaining territory, handed the money to the woman’s father, and married her.

A year later, Ael was born.

Although it wasn’t a boy, the Aradis Viscount was happy to have a child and requested the Academy to check how much Golden Rule the child possessed.

“What are you saying? That’s impossible! Her mother has strong power, so why would her child…!”

The Academy person left as if there was nothing more to see. The Viscount was greatly disappointed.

‘How much money did I spend, only to get a failure!’

Moreover, hadn’t he boasted loudly at gatherings with other nobles even before the child was born?

Because of that, even before birth, the child had already been registered in the noble register with the name Aelfrida, the name of the most powerful inheritor in mythology.

But to not be an inheritor of the Golden Rule.

That wasn’t the end of it. Shortly after giving birth to the child, his wife passed away.

The Viscount was furiously angry.

“Ungrateful woman. If she had any shame, shouldn’t she have given birth to at least one more child with the Golden Rule!”

He wanted to throw away the child too, but he couldn’t.

If a child registered in the noble register dies before becoming an adult, the parents would be punished. Moreover, the Golden Rule might manifest just before turning three years old.

The Aradis Viscount entrusted the child to a hastily found wet nurse and waited for three years. But his hopeful expectations turned into disappointment each time.

In the end, Ael failed to manifest the power of the Golden Rule by the age of three.

And that year, the Aradis Viscount went to visit a rural estate of a lower noble he gambled with and brought back a woman he fell in love with at first sight, making her the Viscountess. She became Ael’s stepmother.

Ael grew up struggling under a father who was ashamed of her, and a stepmother who saw her as the enemy who had squandered her husband’s fortune.

The only reason Ael could grow up receiving minimal treatment was because her name was on the noble register.

After all, a noble woman could be married off to receive a large sum of money.

‘I guess they didn’t expect it to be this hard to sell me off.’

Ael, recalling her reputation in high society, shook her head and absentmindedly stroked the spine of a book labeled ‘Golden Rule’.

“Would you please move aside?”

At that moment, a library staff member spoke from behind in an irritated voice. It seemed Ael was in the way of organizing the books.

“I’m sorry.”

Ael bowed her head deeply and stepped aside. She was worried that the other person might recognize her.

Because the Aradis Viscount had boasted so much, people in high society knew for what purpose Ael was born.

If it became known that she was interested in a book about the Golden Rule, she would only be ridiculed for still not giving up on futile expectations.

Fortunately, the staff member didn’t pay any more attention to Ael, took out the book they wanted, and left. Ael turned her gaze away from the Golden Rule book and looked at other books, then pulled out one and fell into contemplation.

It was a very thin and small book.

But as she turned the cover, as if to say don’t be deceived by appearances, it was filled with very dense text and complex formulas.

Ael checked the author of the book. As expected. The name of the same author from the book she had struggled to understand last time was clearly imprinted.

After pondering a bit more, Ael hugged it with a determined face.

She didn’t know when she would be able to visit the library again. If so, it was better to choose a book that could be read for as long as possible.

That way, there would be less time to feel bored until the next visit.

‘It’s fortunate that the book loan period is long.’

Even though it was difficult for her to come out with an ID like this, there would surely be an opportunity to bring it back during the loan period of several months.

Besides, she didn’t need a separate ID to return it.

After that, Ael went around the shelves and picked out a few more books. When the chosen books reached ten, she quickly turned around. It was really time to go back now.

Ael headed to the checkout counter. Suddenly, she remembered the book she had first seen. The thick book about the Golden Rule.

‘Should I borrow it?’

Hesitating, Ael shook her head. She felt pathetic. It wasn’t her father but herself who couldn’t let go of the lingering attachment to the Golden Rule, even at 27 years old, let alone 3.

Ael hurriedly returned home and entered through the back door, trying not to make any noise. Heading towards the kitchen connected to the back door, Jena, who had come back to the kitchen despite being told to rest, greeted Ael.

“My lady!”

“Shh. Are my parents awake by any chance?”

“No. They’re still sleeping.”

At Jena’s answer, Ael finally let out a sigh of relief.

“Did you go to the library?”

“Yes. I’ll put my books down and come right back.”

Ael went upstairs, groaning as she carried her bag.

Usually, the owner’s family of a mansion would have their rooms on the second or third floor. However, Ael’s room was on the fourth floor, which was typically designated as the servants’ area.

In the past, Ael’s room was also on the third floor.

But then Elize, who shared the third floor with her, sent Ael upstairs because she said she lacked space for her clothes, and turned Ael’s room into her dressing room.

Entering her room, Ael immediately pushed the bag containing the books under her bed and changed her clothes. Then, carrying her father’s ID, she headed to the study.

Just as she safely placed it back in its original spot and came out into the hallway, footsteps were heard from around the corner. Before Ael had time to go down, the owner of the footsteps appeared.

“What is this?”

The person who appeared frowned as soon as they saw Ael. As if they had seen a bug.

“E-Elize…”

The person who appeared was Elize, Ael’s sister who was 3 years younger than her.

“Rida, it was you?”

Far from calling her sister, Elize called Ael with an irritated face, as if addressing a maid. Not Ael, but Rida.

Ael’s name registered in the noble register was Aelfrida. The strongest inheritor of the Golden Rule in mythology. The name her father had registered without much thought.

But it was too cumbersome and embarrassing to call her by that full name, so she was usually called Ael. However, Elize alone called her not Ael, but Rida.

Since her name was Aelfrida, neither Ael nor Rida was particularly problematic as a nickname.

But Ael remembered. Long ago, the name of the precious breed of dog that the Viscount had bought for a large sum of money was Rida.

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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