In the darkness of dawn, a man dressed in plain clothes approached, bowing to Dae-gun.
She recognized him as well. His name was Seoyeom, if she recalled correctly.
He was the man who always accompanied Dae-gun whenever he came home.
Although they had never exchanged words, Seoyeom’s attitude towards her was always respectful, as if dealing with a superior.
“Go and bring some hot water.”
“Yes, Your Grace.”
As the man left and sat on the veranda, he casually spoke without looking at her.
“Do you have something to say to me?”
“Ah… no. I will go inside now.”
“Prepare some clothes for washing and change.”
“…Yes.”
His voice was as cold as the gaze he cast upon her.
He entered the room and laid out the prepared clothes on the table.
After a while, he came in, changed into new clothes, and sat down.
The silence in the room was suffocating. Finally breaking the silence, he slowly turned his head to look at her.
When she turned her head to avoid showing her swollen face, his hand grabbed her chin before she could.
Was it a misconception? His eyes, staring through her face, subtly wavered.
After a moment of contemplation, he frowned and withdrew his hand.
“Why don’t you ask anything?”
“…”
“Are you an indifferent person with no curiosity? Or perhaps, from the beginning, did you not expect anything, like the rumors of you being a pathetic person?”
It seemed like he was asking about why she wasn’t questioning the fact that it was Mina, not her, in the bed during the night of the wedding.
What should she ask?
Why did he choose simplicity on the wedding night? How could he embrace a maid, not her, who wasn’t just any other woman but a maid in the house?
What could she say?
Becoming Dae-gun’s wife did not give her the right to question him. She never expected his heart to willingly turn towards her.
It was fortunate for Eunseol that she became the bride of Dae-gun.
The wedding with Dae-gun was the only way to escape Sunyoung’s abuse and Eunju’s disdain.
She never thought that Dae-gun’s heart would willingly turn towards her from the beginning.
Knowing that his heart was unattainable, she didn’t even dare to desire it.
Subconsciously, Eunseol clenched her fist without realizing it.
Nevertheless, it hurt.
His cold gaze made her heart sink, and every time she saw his retreating back, it felt like the world was collapsing.
At some point, his gaze towards her became even more indifferent and dry.
Even the slight excitement she felt when she first met him was not allowed for her.
Without any reason, she was secretly wounded by his cold gaze and tone, but her feelings towards him only grew more pitiful.
It wasn’t a rational emotion.
If she hadn’t held onto a heart that couldn’t be touched from the beginning, she wouldn’t have suffered such wounds.
It was foolish and pathetic to hold onto a heart that couldn’t be reached.
What could she say? Asking about what he did during the night wouldn’t make any sense.
If she could escape from this hell-like house, she vowed not to care even if Dae-gun chose a concubine, and she promised not to resent him even if he never searched for her throughout her life.
So, now, at this moment, she knows the answer she should give.
“I’m okay.”
“What, what do you mean you’re okay?”
“…I mean.”
“What is okay? Is it okay to see your husband, not the bride on the wedding night, and even if it’s a maid, is it okay?”
He asked in a low voice, suppressing his emotions.
His icy gaze, staring at her intensely, made her lips dry up, and her whole body trembled.
Seeing her trembling, he sighed and got up from his seat.
“My wife is truly generous, isn’t she? Even if there are dozens of maids, she seems unaware of jealousy. Ah… Since she has already embraced another in her heart, there may be no jealousy.”
He spat out incomprehensible words and roughly opened the door, leaving abruptly.
After a while, his deep voice echoed from the detached building.
“Yeom-ah. I’m going to Unyeon Palace. Prepare.”
Unyeon Palace, the mansion of General Jinheon, was so magnificent that it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that it reproduced the entire palace.
When she first got off the carriage, she was astonished by the high walls and large gate, and when she entered the main building, she was amazed once again by the size of the structures.
The scale of the main and detached buildings, including the guesthouse and love quarters, was so huge that it even made her feel uncomfortable.
Eunseol, who became the mistress of Unyeon Palace, stayed in the main building.
Worried that she couldn’t bring a maid from her hometown, she was relieved to have the amiable maids Geumok and Eom Sang-gung, who helped her adapt without much difficulty.
More than anything, what bothered her was that for ten days since entering Unyeon Palace, she hadn’t seen Dae-gun at all.
It didn’t matter that he didn’t look for her; the awkwardness in the eyes of the servants was quite embarrassing.
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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