"Hey…..?"
Siwoo-.
She carefully pushed the man's head toward the door.
The man's face was completely obscured by his black hair, making him unrecognizable.
"Excuse me."
The moment I touched him again.
“Huh…….”
I was unable to speak.
He was such a handsome man that I have no words to describe him.
"What is this?
A mirage?"
I rubbed my eyes and looked down again.
My heart was pounding, and it was difficult to calm it down.
I thought that being startled by the sight of something only happened when a person came face to face with an insect, but is this even possible when a person sees a person?
I covered my mouth and looked down intently.
The man's pale skin was as clear as a boiled egg, and his wet black hair was dark. (The heroine is hungry)*
His sharp nose, chiseled jaw, and beautiful features catch anyone's eye, even with his eyes closed.
I've never seen anyone like him in my life
“He didn't even show up when I was looking for a good guy.”
There was a time when I was secretly meeting men to avoid marrying the Emperor, and now I saw a handsome man that I couldn't even see while doing so.
A dream perhaps?
“Ew.”
When I pinched my cheek, tears came to my eyes.
“It's not a dream.”
Well, it wasn't a dream.
But if it wasn't a dream, it doesn't explain why this handsome man was in front of me from day one.
I narrowed my eyes and looked at him.
I was so taken by its beauty that I almost forgot why I was hiding.
'Escape from the Emperor.'
Common sense tells me there's no reason such a handsome man should be lying on the floor of my new home, in this country town, in this weather.
‘Is he a spy sent by the Emperor?’
I nudged the man with my toe.
He fell to the ground, looking like he was really in pain.
“…….”
I felt a wave of sympathy, as if I had to save this beauty.
But he's suspicious.
‘Does the Emperor know that I have a weakness for handsome men?!’
Fortunately, we're not that close.
I just looked at him and tried to close the door tightly.
But suddenly something came to my mind.
[Emma will make sure that the young miss will be able to escape safely.]
Emma was my maid.
My family's maid who secretly helped me escape from home.
When I informed Emma of my departure for Grunwald, she answered me.
[Grunwald is too far away and too dangerous to be alone, so you'll need someone to protect you, and don't worry, Emma will choose someone strong and send him to you!"].
“Is this it……?”
I stared at the man who Emma had apparently sent me.
“You said you would ask the guild...”
I can't believe she sent a real person.
I stared at the man in the rain.
I didn't want to, but I took the man over.
* * *
“It's heavy...!!!!”
I carried him inside.
The man, whose entire body seemed to be full of muscles, was as heavy as a rock as I had expected.
I could barely drag the man to the carpet.
“Hahaha sir……you are heavy...”
I brought it because I couldn't get rid of it, but I was still skeptical.
I wasn't sure if Emma had sent it.
“Can someone who looks like that be just an extra in the world?”
It was even more suspicious because he was so handsome.
I had trouble keeping my focus straight and took off the man's robe.
There was no bag or luggage, so there must be something inside the robe.
"there!"
I searched through his soaked robe and quickly found one of his belongings.
“Mercenary painting?”
A long brown board carved from a tree.
I've seen her before.
This was a plate proving the identities of the mercenaries.
Normally, mercenaries are graded from S to D, but this man had an A...
“His name is Dale.”
Dale, common name.
'Not the Emperor's name.'
The Emperor's name was originally much longer.
Its name was about as long as a bell pepper or a tomato, but it bore no resemblance to its name.
However, the Emperor appears in the novel as a rather handsome man.
"impossible……."
I looked at the man and ran my hand through his hair.
“Yes.
Even the hair roots are black.”
The emperor had blond hair and blue eyes.
The protagonist was a exemplary leader and member of the royal family with power, wealth, and physical strength, so this man is not him.
But could it be that his hair was dyed so carefully?
"Excuse me."
I looked intently at his chin.
“Yes, it cannot dye body hair.”
But what color are his eyes?
“I'm not usually this rude.”
I grabbed the man's eyelids and opened them slightly.
“His eyes are golden.”
Golden eyes?
This is not common..
"He's not an extra because he looks like that.
He's more handsome than the world can handle."
I stared at him, then I remembered the faces of my family and my servants.
This was a fantasy world, and most of them were very handsome.
So do me.
“Just because he's an extra doesn't mean he can't be good looking.”
But I couldn't help but be skeptical.
‘If he is a mercenary, he is most likely following me on the Emperor’s orders.’
But the Emperor has six knights.
If he wanted to maintain high security, it would be better to use knights instead of mercenaries.
He wasn't stupid enough to let his secrets out.
Moreover, the Emperor's orders are...
There is a princess who has been hiding for three years because she doesn't want to marry me.
I am the emperor, but I can't have it.
Go get her, she is smarter and better than me.”
This is insulting, isn't it?
If he was really going to use mercenaries, he would use an S-class mercenary, not an A-class.
“Did Emma really send it?”
I looked at the man and then looked out the window.
I can't leave it anywhere..
As a therapist, I can't do that.
“There is a strange smell coming from my grandmother!”
At about the age of eight I realized my talent as a healer.
At that time, I had just realized that this was the world of “Empress Prison,” or “Empress Can’t Leave.”
What a miserable fate she was born with.
I was reincarnated as an unlucky empress, who was destined to marry the Emperor, the hero of the original novel.
'Or, more accurately, the Empress who married the wrong man and destroyed her family.'
My family, Duke Lockhart's family, originally held the rank of Marquis, but was elevated to a duchy when the current Emperor ascended the throne.
In short, my father, the Duke of Lockhart, was the Emperor's closest confidant, and my family itself was the head of the new aristocracy and the Emperor's right-hand man.
Up until this point, everyone had a happy ending.
But after my arranged marriage to the emperor, the original novel heads towards hell.
What is the age group of <Empress Prison>?
19+
In the original novel, the Emperor and I enter into a joint arranged marriage to consolidate our power.
We had no interest in each other and certainly no love, but after the union everything changed.
He controlled where I went, who I met, what I ate, what I wore, and if I laughed too much with a man other than him, I couldn't go out.
He was jealous of everything about me in the original novel.
My family was no exception.
The Emperor cut off all contact with my family, which ultimately led to the fall of the duchy.
Blinded by jealousy, he accused my loyal family of treason, eliminating everyone but me.
The Emperor was very mad.
“Whew!”
Anyway, going back to the beginning, I realized that this world was a novel world and I also discovered that I was born with the ability to smell illness.
Thanks to this power, I discovered my grandmother's illness early, and she gave me a large sum of money as a reward.
I took the money and ran away with it as soon as I got notice that I was going to become the Empress.
This is how I got to where I am today, three years later.
“This man doesn't smell like a sick man.”
He smelled like dirt and rain.
It was a simple fainting spell.
“If you let him sleep for a day, he will be able to open his eyes, right?”
I put my hand on his forehead, and there was some heat.
“There are no signs of being attacked.”
He looked like he had just fainted.
His breathing was erratic, so I knew he had lost a lot of energy.
“I can't put it back in the rain, can I?”
I looked at the suspicious man.
My conscience as a therapist would not allow me to leave a man where he could die.
I have prepared some herbs that may be helpful.
Fortunately, the color returned to his pale face and his body temperature rose quickly.
I stared at the man.
He was handsome.
Really handsome.
“It will be difficult if he dies here.”
The last thing I wanted was to see housing costs from day one.
If there is a dead body, I must pay for the funeral.
When I perform a funeral, I must say what the relationship is between me and the owner of the body.
To prove that there is no relationship, I must reveal my real identity.
If I reveal my true identity, the Emperor will...
He will find me...
"This guy.
I have to save him!"