She wanted to roll on the floor and exclaim ‘I survived!’ but realized that was a wrong thought.
“I… must be dead. This person must be an angel.”
She murmured, staring blankly at the hand that had touched him.
But she felt relieved that the pain of death was not as great as she had imagined, and that she hadn’t died in great pain.
Yet she was sorrowful, and bitterly resentful.
“I had many things I wanted to do before I died…… I must look ugly since I died of starvation. Even in death, I’m in rags.”
Thinking over and over again, the girl finally let tears roll down from her unusually large and beautiful eyes.
“Ah, no.”
The girl’s tears brought Lapellian back to the real world.
The noise came back to his ears once again.
The noise that he felt again after the dizzying silence irritated his nerves even more, but what bothered him more was the small human in front of him, shedding large tears.
“Why are you crying? Are you in much pain?”
Lapellian tried to console the being that had suddenly started to cry by stroking her thin cheek.
“I really must be dead. You must be an angel. Waaah.”
The girl began to cry louder at his gentle touch.
She couldn’t stop her tears, as no one but an angel would be so kind to her.
The girl, who had once again realized her death, burst into tears she had held back all her life. She felt less sorrowful if she could cry her heart out, now that she was dead.
“An, angel?”
“I haven’t even had enough bread to eat. But at least it’s heaven, not… hell. Sniff, but can you please save my puppy?”
The girl, who couldn’t even imagine how bewildered he was, sobbed loudly.
Lapellian was confused about what was happening, but soon realized the other’s thoughts.
Even if you have the courage to save a strange being, you can’t be without fear.
‘She’s so scared, but she wants the puppy to be saved.’
He was a little cheered by the pure goodwill he felt for the first time in a long time.
“You’re not dead.”
“Angel, do you really have to take me too?”
“Little one. Look at me. You’re not dead.”
Lapellian took out a handkerchief and wiped the tears from her constantly crying eyes.
Her tearstreaked and messy cheeks were tidied up a bit.
“Huh?”
“You’re not dead.”
“You don’t have to lie to reassure me. There can’t be such a person in the world.”
He, who usually did not clearly show his emotions, couldn’t help but laugh out loud this time.
His cheerful laughter caused the chauffeur watching from afar and the youngest of the Mosteros family, who had been nestled in his arms, to drop their jaws in surprise.
“I took my name from Raphael, but sadly, I’m not a real angel.”
He said with a cool laugh, shrugging his shoulders and handing her his tousled hair behind his ears. Only then did she fully see the mole under his eye.
Rags and tattered shoes. Messily chopped short hair. Dark circles under the eyes and sunken cheeks.
And the horribly thin arms and legs.
‘Twelve? Maybe thirteen?’
Lapellian felt a bitterness in his mouth as he wiped away the tearsoaked cheeks again.
“Don’t worry too much, she’s a bit hurt but still alive.”
“If that’s the case, then I… I…”
If she hadn’t died, that was a problem in itself.
The eyes of the girl who began to realize that this place wasn’t heaven gradually grew wider, and in the end, she struggled even to breathe.
A wave of fear about what I had just done crashed over the girl.
The thin body, filled with fear, trembled violently.
If the person in question was not an angel, the answer was one.
He must be a very high noble.
“Ah! Ooh. II did wrong. I dared to touch someone as noble as you. Forgive me. I thought you were dead… I did wrong.”
The girl prostrated herself flat and begged frantically with her hands and feet.
At the desperate cry, Lapellian only then realized that the human before him was prostrating.
In fact, he was so focused on the red eyes that led him to a quiet world that he didn’t even realize he had been touched.
‘Did she touch me…?’
It was numbing that he hadn’t realized he was touched.
Lapellian looked down at the being trembling on the floor, wanting to clearly understand what this rare experience was.
‘I feel like I’ve become a bad person.’
It was not pleasing to see the miserable and small body crouching down.
Lapellian quickly helped the child stand.
He then gently embraced the cheek, where tears were being held back by biting the lips, and said,
“What did you do wrong?”
“That’s…”
“I didn’t say anything, did I?”
Although the emotionless tone and gaze he usually showed to others were nowhere to be found, the girl couldn’t easily let go of her engulfing fear.
“I have no apologies to receive from you. Rather, I should thank you. Thank you for saving my sibling. The Mosteros family is greatly indebted to you.”
Lapellian bowed his head.
“Yeyes?”
The girl inadvertently responded, then dropped her jaw in shock.
‘Mosteros family?!’
Hearing his identity, the girl trembled more in fear.
The family at the center of the four great duke families of the empire, the northern lords with enough power to become an independent duchy, was the empire’s highest family.
In Aserion, no one did not know Mosteros.
That a child of such a family would bow to her was something she couldn’t help but be surprised by.
‘Why would such an important person be kind to me like this? Even bowing…’
She had never experienced someone treating her like this in her life, so this unfamiliar experience was only terrifying.
‘Ah! There are many eyes here, so maybe he’s pretending to be kind and will beat me elsewhere. I touched his precious body. He touched mine too.’
It was a rational suspicion built from experience.
The girl was about to cry again at the fear of beating.
Tears that were usually wellheld were unusually hard to hold back today.
Lapellian was also troubled by his crying counterpart.
His sensitive animallike sense read the vivid caution and fear of the other person.
Lapellian instinctively felt that things wouldn’t go smoothly from here on. It pained him to think that he might lose this person forever like this, before he could understand this unfamiliar experience.
“Don’t cry. Crying will only make it harder.”
“Ah, I won’t cry. I won’t. I’m sorry.”
He had only said one thing, but the tension rose further.
Lapellian decided to change the subject for now.
“Crying isn’t wrong. You fell hard, so it’s natural to cry. I’m just worried that you might be in pain. Where does it hurt the most? Here, your cheek? Or your shoulder? Arm?”
Lapellian carefully examined the wounds.
Since most of the touches the girl had received in her life were violent, she unconsciously shrank back and shook her head vehemently, saying she was okay.
“It seems you didn’t hurt your bones since you’re moving well…”
“I’m really okay.”
“I understand your wish. But it should be properly examined and treated. To the hospital…….”
“No, no need.”
The girl flailed her arms in shock.
Desperately insisting on her own way, she wanted to handle this matter where there were many watching eyes.
However, Lapellian looked at her increasingly sickly face and was completely mistaken.
‘She must have had some terrible experience in the hospital. In that case, I can call the family doctor.’
He changed his mind, thinking that there was no need to remind a benefactor of unpleasant memories. Simple treatment can be done at home anyway.
“Don’t like the hospital? What about home? I will call our family’s doctor. I have to meet your parents and explain the situation.”
If there was a proper home and parents, the child wouldn’t be in this condition.
Nevertheless, Lapellian took the steps for a contingency.
Soon, an answer that was not much different from his expectation came out.
“I have no home. No mom and dad either. Never had them.”
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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