Chapter 1 (2/2)

“Well…though I probably wouldn’t have talked with you if not for what you gave me.”

Kambrakam was a prison for the nobles, so all the guards were knights. Especially for the male lead’s cell, the guards were those with pretty high-level abilities.

A characteristic of this prison was that there were less chances of interaction between women and men than outside of the prison. And then, of course, there were a few people like me who struck up conversations with anyone, causing the bewildered knights to shake their heads. Though now that three months had passed, they had all gotten used to my actions.

“Did you like what I gave you?”

“Of course. Exactly where were you able to get such a high-class cigar? A middle-class knight like me would obviously drool over such an item.”

“I don’t know. I just asked for it in a letter to my family and they sent it to me.”

The knight looked at me as if he didn’t believe me, but I was telling the truth. As soon as I opened my eyes in this world, the first things I had seen were the desk I was sitting at and an almost blank letter with a small note scribbled at the top.

[Write to me what you want me to get.]

From then on, a blank letter would arrive every month, and if I wrote what I wanted and sent it back, those items, whatever I had asked for, would arrive.

Even items that were normally banned in prisons, like alcohol and cigarettes, were delivered to me if I asked. At first, I didn’t know what this letter was, so I just left it alone, but the next month I received a letter asking, ‘You don’t need anything?’

To the others who couldn’t get anything they wanted like I could, I quickly became a superstar.

<If you don’t mind, could the lady tell us exactly which family you are from?>

There were people here who went by their first names and others who went by their full titles. There wasn’t anyone who was called by their number, like, “Nobleman 3615!”

<I’d like to just be called by my first name.>

Anyhow, to the people who were curious about my family name, I always shook my head and asked them to call me Iana.

Because the thing is, I didn’t know either. So I didn’t let anyone know who my family was.

If my family was someone that I did know from the novel, then they would probably be someone with a high enough status based on how they could get me anything, but….it was difficult to see family members during imprisonment and other than the blank letter that arrived every month, there wasn’t anything else for me to work with, not even a name.

So I just assumed that I was from a relatively stable noble family. Because if I was from a family that appeared in the book, I would have figured that out by now. Well, it’s not like there were a lot of characters in the novel. I mean, other than the steamy hot nights between the female and male leads, nothing else was really that important.

Hans shook his head when I told him I didn’t know where I got the cigars.

“Well anyway, you are an interesting person, Iana.”

“Am I? I can’t really tell. Ah, more than that, Hans, I have a favor to ask of you.”

I pointed at the vague outline of a figure collapsed in the dark cell.

“Can you let me inside there?”

“No I cannot.”

“Really?”

Hans shook his head in a firm no, but I knew what these guards were most weak against. I smirked at him and spoke.

“Next time I’ll give you two of the same kind.”

“…I cannot.”

“3 cigars?”

He flinched at my smile.

“But still…”

“3 cigars and a pipe. If you don’t want to, I’ll just ask and give it all to Talmin-“

“Now that I think about it, I think going in for a few seconds is okay.”

Talmin was another prison guard who was a rival of Hans.

“Deal.”

I couldn’t stop my chuckle. Hans cleared his throat and turned his head the other way. He tried to hide his embarrassment.

“You really can only stay there for just a little bit, okay?”

“Oka~ay.”

Perhaps it’s because the novel’s events hadn’t happened yet. Unlike how the cell was under strict surveillance in the novel, the male lead’s prison cell wasn’t heavily guarded. Perhaps it was because no one knew the male lead’s power? In the novel, the prison cell was strictly monitored after the male lead caused a huge ruckus. So.

“You need to put in the key and turn it. Two times to the right. It’s a bit rusty, so you have to put in some strength.”

“Yup. Got it.”

I pushed open the door after unlocking it. I could smell something like wet moss past the rusted door. This cell hasn’t been cleaned at all, has it?

I took a few steps towards the wall and then stopped, blinking my eyes repeatedly. Someone lay on the ground, his body chained to the wall.

‘So this is the male lead who hasn’t met the female lead yet, huh…’

He probably hadn’t been eating well because he was rather scrawny, but he still gave off a sacred, saint-like feeling. Maybe it was because of his silver hair. Or maybe because of his long eyebrows or his eyes with a color like the sky.

My throat made a sound as I gulped.

Heinrich Dorean was hella fine.

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littledubuu: MERRY CHRISTMAS! I translated the manhwa screenshots I put in. But do go check the promotional manhwa (so one chapter only) out on mangadex, devil and angel scans and lunalotusscans did a great job.

To any and all translators out there, feel free to pick this up. I just wanted to try doing the first chapter. But as long as no one picks it up, I’ll keep going and posting chapters every now and then. If someone has already done the first chapter/started translating and it’s not on novel updates so I didn’t know, i. am. sorry. in. advance.

my regular novels at the moment are ‘I hid the duke’s daughter’ and ‘lady baby.’ if/when I finish translating a good chunk of ‘lady baby,’ I’ll either take on this novel or two other novels I am also considering at the moment (look under pilot tab).

and go check out ‘s bonus Christmas chapter: