5 Results in the "The Guard Must Leave in Secret" category
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Chapter
GMLS Ch 3
Yeo Yullyeong assigned six tutors to me. He had said to just be good enough to enter the palace, but it was all a lie. The statement that he did not enjoy empty flattery was, in itself, empty flattery. I was thoroughly educated not only in literature and martial arts, but also in etiquette and the arts of song and dance. As I learned about the 5th Prince one by one, I incidentally learned about Yeo Yullyeong as well. I had expected it from the scale of his house and its possessions, but he was a…-
6.2 K • Ongoing
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GMLS Ch 2
When the memory of being trapped in the mother-of-pearl box resurfaced in a dream, causing me to wake with a start at dawn, a large hand would stroke my back. It should have been tiring and bothersome, yet the man showed no sign of it. He would simply wipe my sweat-soaked forehead and massage my deathly pale hands. It’s all right now. Didn't I get you out? Look. This is my chamber, and you are on a silk mattress, he would say. There was power in the man's voice. Born noble, even his voice was…-
6.2 K • Ongoing
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GMLS Ch 1
That was the year I turned fifteen. It was also the last year of the great famine. People who had starved for ten days begged for food, and emaciated bodies like dry firewood were kicked underfoot. Our family’s fortunes, which couldn't be called affluent but were never particularly lacking, also began to decline. The last of the last farmland we had held onto was passed to the richest man in the capital. A few days after that, my second older brother, who had a bad leg, died. It was a sudden…-
6.2 K • Ongoing
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GMLS Ch 0 – Prologue
How on earth did it come to this? No matter how I wracked my brain, clutching my head, I couldn't figure it out. Yihwa was currently on his way to meet ‘the master who hastily returned to the palace and became emperor for the sake of marrying me’. ……Even writing it out in letters, I wonder what on earth this means. Yeo Yullyeong said softly. “If you are still not resolved in your heart, you may simply leave from here.” “He is… No, sir.” “Is that so.” Yeo Yullyeong…-
6.2 K • Ongoing
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