The night was so dark that I couldn’t even see ahead of me if it weren’t for the small lit candle next to the bedside table. I quietly rose from where I had been lying alongside Emperor Carmun.
Perhaps it was luck that brought me here. I even slept with the emperor of the Idelberg Empire, whom I had never met in my life.
But would he ever know that it was the biggest mistake of his life?
After becoming the Emperor’s 27th concubine, I had no intention of sleeping with him. But somehow, the Emperor kept coming to me, and now he even abandoned the Empress to seek only myself.
I checked to confirm if the Emperor had fallen asleep,
“Your Majesty…” I said quietly.
The Emperor did not move as he exhaled steady breaths. After seeing that he was sleeping peacefully, I grabbed the dagger I had hidden under my pillow. The hand that held the dagger was already trembling with fear.
‘Why did you choose me out of all the women in your entourage?’
I had to kill him. He was my father’s sworn enemy. I wanted to kill him and fulfill my father’s wish, but my body was shaking more than I thought and I felt like I was going to miss the sword…
The Emperor was lying on the bed asleep with an unconcerned look on his face, not knowing what I was up to.
My hand shook, and suddenly, I did not want to kill him. When I looked closer at the emperor, who was called the devil, he did not look like a bad man, let alone a devil.
He was a good emperor who cared about his people. And he was a scarred man with a painful secret.
I couldn’t hurt such a person just because he was my father’s enemy, even though he was better to me than anyone else in the world.
“Huff…huff.” (Crying sound)
Carmun didn’t open his eyes, despite the sound of my quiet cry. It was as if he was dead. I held the dagger in my hand. I froze in place, I couldn’t stab him or stop crying when I saw him sleeping peacefully in front of me. My father’s urging had already gone too far. If I didn’t kill him, my father would be disappointed. Then I would be a useless daughter again.
“I’m sorry.”
I whispered quietly as I lifted the knife high in the air and quickly strained it so that I could plunge it into his heart. But I couldn’t bring myself to do it because the thoughts suddenly came to my mind.
“Edith, look at this. I can’t believe you’re smiling. That’s why the flowers bloomed. It’s because of your smile.”
The cherry blossoms that bloomed in the early summer.
“From now on, don’t smile so sweetly. It makes me angry when other people see you smiling.”
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A Fake Concubine Was Caught by the Tyrant
Storie d'amoreAlternative 가짜 후궁인데 폭군에게 붙잡혔다 Author(s) 한소베 ** ** A Princess, who became a fake concubine in place of her sister. She thought it would put an end to her miserable life. When she was threatened by her father to kill the Emperor, she learned about t...
