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Introduction
“It's time to go home.”
"Huh? A-ah…"
“We agreed to greet my family properly when we got home.”
Edwin smiled at Dana with a bright smile.
His blonde hair was like melted gold, his gently closed eyes, his sharp nose and finely drawn jaw...
Today, his handsomeness seemed even more brilliant than usual.
He's handsome as always...
“Do you like my face that much?”
What interrupted Dana's train of thought was Edwin's innocent question.
“I like… No, that's not what I meant!”
Dana opened the window of the moving car.
Yes, she may have been oblivious, but there was no doubt that things were fishy.
The trial session was scheduled suspiciously quickly.
Flowers in the greenhouse that looked like they were from the garden of the Imperial Palace.
Sophistication and natural luxury have characterized Edwin since the beginning.
His close and remarkable relationship with the Minister of the Department of Magic.
...But, whatever, my husband is a prince!
Can I really call this enormous palace my “home”?
I need... just a little extra time to prepare myf!
“Haha… Edwin, can we postpone this for another day?”
“No way, Dana.”
He said while keeping a tender smile on his lips.
“You promised to accept me completely, didn't you?”
“From the moment I saw you, you were always mine.”
Dana stopped moving.
His gaze fixed on her was seething with suppressed obsession.
***
Dana Hartwin was working in the Department of Healing Potions of the Ministry of Magic.
The name of the department sounds impressive, but her job was nothing more than a junior employee making energy restoration potions.
Also today, she was checking inventory and attaching labels to bottles. Its work is simple...but its intensity was arduous.
Coming from a humble family, getting a job in the Magic Department was not easy.
But she got the job thanks to a year she spent in the North, where magical beasts abound.
She suffered greatly in exchange for the high salary, until she almost lost her life.
Fortunately, there was a law that allowed those who had served more than a year in the Monster Extermination Squad to automatically obtain jobs in the relevant departments.
Dana was one of them.
Although the interview was kind of weird...
As usual, formal questions were asked from the interviewers, and the outcome was decided from the beginning.
But after she answered the last question, something strange happened.
“Do you have a favorite poet?”
The questioner was a man sitting silently behind a curtain at the end of the hall, and he held her attention throughout the interview.
"Yes, I have."
Dana answered without hesitation, bringing to mind the poet she loved.
Then…
The man behind the curtain said nothing.
So Dana was accepted and began working silently for more than a year.
She worked hard, even with extreme dedication, and did not hesitate to work overtime and weekends.
All for the sake of getting extra pay.
Dana Hartwin was known in the Potions Department as the "Officially Exploited Employee."
An employee eats a cheap sandwich for one meal a day, and is unable to stop her family's extravagance.
The one responsible for exposing everything was her brother Jimmy.
When she refused to give him money for his project, he came to her workplace and started screaming and complaining. And with him is their mother.
"Can't you even finance your brother's only project even though you receive a large salary? Is it because of the previous loan? Or the one before that?"
“How can you be so cruel to your family?”
Seeing their luxurious clothes and jewelry made the other employees shake their heads ruefully.
Even now, Dana still feels ashamed whenever she remembers that day.
While she was trying to cool her face while waving her hand, her colleague said to her:
"Dana, it's lunch time. You're going to eat your cheap sandwich at the fountain again, aren't you?"
Dana smiled awkwardly. There is nothing left to hide.
"I'll see you later."
While the colleagues headed to a nearby restaurant, Dana sat at the fountain.
It was a quiet place with no people at lunch, which she liked.
When I inhaled the air, the scent of trees wafted from the back garden.
Dana felt stronger whenever she was close to nature.
She took out her cheap sandwich. It contained meat and vegetables that looked like they were expired.
“How much is the loan interest for this month?”
She muttered as she took a bite of her sandwich.
Then, the fountain began to spray water preciy at the appointed time, and the calm sound of water spread behind it.
As if that helped her mind clear up a little.
When she looked at the surface of the water, she saw dark circles under her eyes.
Meanwhile, her black hair was swaying in the breeze.
She started playing with her hand over the surface of the water.
“What a quiet place to be at my job...”
“Should I kill him...?”
What broke the calm of the moment was a cold voice from the opposite side of the fountain.
What? Murder in my holy place?
Her muscles tensed until she couldn't move a foot.
Then, a huge shadow covered her trembling body.
A man's footsteps were approaching.
Dana slowly raised her head. Her eyes met his.
“Huh?”
He was not a scary or cruel man.
Rather, he was a blond young man who looked like an angel.
The bridge of his nose was long above his clear skin.
Despite the gentleness of his eyes, his sexy red lips blended in a strange harmony.
Their mutual stare continued for several seconds.
His intense red gaze caught Dana's attention.
Her thoughts were interrupted by his voice, saying:
“……How lucky I am today.”
This was followed by a bright smile, a smile so sweet as if it would melt the heart, that made Dana stare at him absently for a while.
The man smiled lightly as he put down the book he was carrying.
“Is there something on my face?”
“……Oh, I apologize!”
She stared at him in a very rude manner.
Dana fiddled with her fingers shyly and said:
“The reason I was staring was... just because you said you were going to kill someone...”
“Oh, it's okay, it's no big deal. Someone kept me waiting.”
How can a death threat not matter? But that smile made her believe it.
“Ah, yeah, it doesn't matter! I'll go now, sorry for the inconvenience!”
Dana tried to quickly retreat, but she collided with the book placed on the edge of the fountain.
Oh, my God!
Before she could catch it, the book fell into the water.
I quickly picked it up and shook the water off it.
But a wet book will never be the same again.
“I'm sorry, really sorry!”
What a bad day! Dana frowned hard.
“I'll make it up to you!”
“No need.”
The man waved his hand reassuringly that she didn't need to make it up to him.
Even his heart is as angelic as his face. Dana shook her head in amazement as if she were enchanted, then handed him the book at his gesture.
When she looked at the cover, her eyes widened.
It is a collection of poetry by Sheen.
“Oh? I like this diwan too!”
"I know."
Knows what exactly?
Dana opened her eyes wide, and he gently extended his hand and removed the drops of water that were stuck on her front hair as a result of her shaking out the book.
“Ah...! I rarely find anyone who knows this poet... It's nice to meet you!”
Dana said this and smiled as bright as the spring sunshine.
The man's movement froze in front of that smile.
His bright red gaze wavered.
Without realizing it, he extended his hand towards her cheek.
Dana suddenly closed her eyes at his sudden touch.
As she tensed, their faces began to move closer together.
Then the man whispered in a low voice:
“I want to say something...”
Dana swallowed anxiously.
And at that moment…
“Here you are!”
Someone appeared from afar.
Dana quickly backed away, confused.
The voice was of the Minister of Magic's secretary.
He was not her direct supervisor, but he was much higher in rank than her.
'I can't face one of the bosses in my precious rest time.'
Dana quickly retreated and said to the man:
“I apologize for the inconvenience. I'll go now!”
“Wait…”
But she disappeared before he could catch her.
As she walked away at a fast pace, her mind came back to the previous moments.
'What just happened?'
That first tremor, that blush that covered her face...
A strange sensation, like a tickling in her chest, that she had never experienced before.
As for the angelic-looking man, Edwin, he stared in her direction for a long time.
Meanwhile, the secretary approached him and said politely:
“Greetings, His Highness the Third Prince. I came to pick you up...”
“What bad timing.”
'It's been a long time since we last met.'
The man smiled, and the secretary trembled on the spot.
The smile of Third Prince Edwin Hedlon was a sign of the approach of death.
Fortunately, Edwin passed by Secretary Paul without looking at him.
“Has Dana Hartwin been okay this whole time?”
“Yes, as I saw a moment ago.”
Paul clearly remembered junior employee Dana.
It was chosen by the Third Prince himf.
Although her qualifications were sufficient for admission, even without his intervention.
“I will direct you to His Excellency the Minister now.”
Paul led the prince with a bow.
The Third Prince was an unpredictable person.
It would have been better if he was a tyrant, but he was an unpredictable madman.
As he walked behind Paul, Edwin began humming a faint tune.
Unaware that Paul's face had completely turned white.