That Piece Of Trash Was Me - Chapter 286

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Side Story 4

Naturally, the owner of the Imperial Palace was Empress Carmi. She was also the one who handled all internal affairs.

During the year Ferdinand was away, the Empress had packed the Crown Prince Palace tightly with her loyal followers.

It was only natural that Ferdinand, who had just returned today, couldn’t deal with this immediately.

So this woman must also be one of Carmi’s subordinates.

Ferdinand wanted to sneer, but the paralyzing pain throughout his body prevented him from doing so. He could barely squeeze out his voice.

“…Get out.”

At Ferdinand’s words, the woman’s smile stiffened. She trembled slightly, then soon glided toward him.

She was closer to a noble lady’s age rather than a young lady. Perhaps in her late twenties? The voluptuous and seductive woman with alluring charm whispered softly.

“You don’t know my name. That’s alright. I’m a court lady assigned to this Crown Prince Palace.”

The court lady whispered in a sweet voice and came to sit beside Ferdinand. The well-maintained, snow-white hands of the noble lady stroked Ferdinand’s damp forehead.

“I told you… to get out…”

“Poor thing…”

Ferdinand wanted to push away this annoying woman immediately, but he didn’t have the strength to move even a finger. He ground out curses and barely managed to squeeze out his voice.

“Did you… touch my things?”

“Yes, Your Highness. But… don’t worry. Whatever that herb was, Her Majesty Empress Carmi doesn’t know about it…”

That voice was full of seductive undertones. Ferdinand found this kind of temptation ridiculously familiar.

Though he was a cripple who would never grow, his outer appearance was deceptively impressive. Above all, the divine power emanating from his entire body easily attracted others.

Like flowers that move according to the direction of sunlight, there were quite a few court ladies and servants drawn to Ferdinand.

So there had been a court lady who tried to carry away Ferdinand when he was barely 3 years old, and a servant who tried to forcibly undress him.

Only after he had grown much older, and only after the place became packed with Empress Carmi’s minions who were there to blatantly monitor him, did such unseemly incidents disappear. But anyway, he had experienced them. Countless times.

“What do you think of me? Your Highness. No… Ferdinand…”

If only he could, yes. Like those barbarians who ate that person alive while they were still living, he wanted to bite this court lady to death.

He wanted to eliminate all these irritating people before his eyes.

He wanted to destroy them all and just go to that child’s side.

He wanted to do that, but…

Ferdinand’s pupils contracted as he raised his head.

“…”

It was because the court lady had put the Luromance Mountain herb in her mouth.

“You need this, don’t you? Take it, Your Highness… No one will know…”

“…”

“I’ll never say anything to Her Majesty the Empress. Your Highness. Just occasionally like this, spend the night with me. And…”

“…”

“I’ll never say anything to Tulia Frazier, that young lady either…”

Tulia.

The moment he heard that name, Ferdinand felt as if cold water had been poured over his entire body.

“How do you know her?”

“How, you ask.”

Jealousy mixed into the gentle voice of the court lady who had seemed like a succubus.

“Just until now, you kept muttering only that name while delirious with fever. Your Highness, did that precious young lady please you so much?”

Ferdinand hadn’t even been aware of it.

“But that young lady is a precious person. For Your Highness, wouldn’t someone like me who desires you even in your current state be more suitable?”

The court lady whispered as she brought her lips to Ferdinand’s cheek.

“Your Highness is a beautiful monster. I’m happier because Your Highness is like this, but you know well that ordinary people shun Your Highness.”

“…”

“The more precious they are, the more so. For instance, like that treasured daughter of the Frazier House… Eek!”

The court lady who had been murmuring sweetly as if her bones were melting suddenly screamed. Ferdinand had pushed her away forcefully.

With trembling hands, he drew out the dagger he always kept by his bedside and stabbed it into his forearm without hesitation.

The sharp blade pierced through Ferdinand’s forearm, and blood began to soak abundantly into his thin formal wear.

The court lady was terrified, but Ferdinand could only come to his senses after seeing his own hot blood.

He chewed and swallowed the Luromance Mountain herb that the court lady had dropped after holding it in her mouth, like a wild dog. Meanwhile, blood was flowing down his arm and soaking even the blanket.

Ferdinand wiped his face with both hands wet with blood. Then his beautiful face looked like a demon that had crawled up from hell.

It was a sight that would terrify even the court lady who was seething with desire.

Ferdinand burst into laughter looking at the woman who was trembling with fear.

“Yes, I admit it. I let my guard down. I was in a good mood today. Because I could propose to my first love.”

“Y-Your Highness…”

“But you know. I’m curious about something.”

Blood dripped down Ferdinand’s chin. He was still in pain, but at least he could calm his trembling voice.

“Do you think you’re as beautiful and fatal as Frazier’s treasured daughter?”

“…”

“I’m curious where your confidence came from, thinking that if you threw yourself at me half-naked like that, I wouldn’t be able to think straight.”

The court lady’s face began changing various colors.

Ferdinand was now tired of even verbal sparring.

He just rested in the languid effects of the herb spreading throughout his body.

Ferdinand pulled the bell cord attached to the bed. Then the servants who were outside came in. They looked shocked at the sight of the Crown Prince and the court lady.

“Drag her to the underground prison. I’ll handle this as a crime of insulting the Imperial Family.”

“Your Highness…”

Just as the court lady, who had finally come to her senses, was about to cling to him, she suddenly felt something clumping up in her chest.

Immediately after, she vomited a handful of blood. The court lady looked at Ferdinand with an expression of disbelief.

The boy Crown Prince just chuckled.

“Why did you think what I eat wouldn’t be poisonous?”

“Y-Your Highness…! Your…!”

The word poisonous wasn’t a lie. The Luromance Mountain herb was definitely poisonous. The court lady vomited blood several times, then screamed.

“Please spare me, Your Highness…! Your…!”

The court lady couldn’t finish her words to the end. She was soon dragged away unconscious.

The servants quickly cleaned up the messy bedroom without even raising their heads.

Perhaps because of her origins, Empress Carmi greatly detested servants climbing onto their master’s bed.

Even if the target was the Crown Prince rather than the Emperor, Empress Carmi would be greatly enraged. Since she was extremely harsh to subordinates, she would certainly punish everyone.

Carmi’s minions ignored the sweat flowing down their backs and just pretended that everyone had seen nothing, heard nothing.

In the blink of an eye, Ferdinand was able to lie on clean white bedding again.

The blood on his hands and face had also been cleanly wiped away. Ferdinand received help changing clothes, and his forearm was already treated with hemostatic medicine and bandaged.

Thanks to his innate divine power, his wounds didn’t last long. Probably by tomorrow, before the banquet was held, it would be almost completely healed.

No one else would know that he had sustained such an injury.

There would continue to be no one.

It would always be that way.

Ferdinand walked to the mirror. No matter how beautiful he was said to be, he was ultimately an immature boy.

Those who felt desire for me in this state weren’t human. They were monsters.

Then what am I?

Ferdinand recalled the words his former fiancée Sophia Frazier used to scream. Terrible, cripple, disabled, monster, disgusting…

He returned to bed and flopped down. The pain hadn’t completely subsided yet. Cold sweat was beading on his cleanly washed face.

He stared blankly at the ceiling. Actually, Ferdinand hoped that if someone climbed onto his bed, if someone desired him.

He hoped that person would be just one person.

He hoped it would be that child.

Because he liked that girl.

So…

Ferdinand finally burst into laughter.

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