I Was Reincarnated as the Emperor’s Sleeping Pill - Chapter 4

The Emperor in the book had a hobby of obsessively imprisoning the female lead. That damned Emperor was the one who heightened the level of torment in the story.

But wasn’t that only for the female lead…?

Why the hell is he trying to do that nasty, obsessive imprisonment thing to me?

 

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Lysei sat on the sofa in the Emperor’s room, shaking her legs and biting her nails. The incredibly ornate clock on the wall already showed past 9 o’clock.

She hadn’t been able to leave this room until this hour. Meals were taken care of inside, and as for bathing, five maids came in to wash and wipe her down, apply strange medicine to her sore spots, and dress her.

“Don’t tell me I can’t leave this room until I leave the palace?”

There was definitely no such scene in the book.

In the original story, Lysei was beheaded by a guard’s sword a few days before the female lead appeared, because the Empress revealed that she was an Omega.

Until the female lead arrived, she faithfully performed her duties as the Emperor’s Nixie, but there was no mention of this kind of confinement and those crazy obsessions like kiss marks in the few lines she was mentioned in.

She repeatedly recalled the contents of the book, thinking that she might have missed something, but this situation never happened.

Rather, the Emperor only treated Lysei as his sleeping pill and had no other interest in her. Lysei, who had to bear the Emperor’s child due to the Baron’s pressure, tried to seduce the Emperor by any means. But all that came back was a cold gaze and treatment as nothing more than a cure for insomnia.

“No, where did it all go wrong…?”

It was truly frustrating.

Was she going to be trapped here, unable to go outside? A sense of foreboding chilled her spine.

She was a physical education student. She enjoyed judo and taekwondo, and her hobbies were running and hanging from the monkey bars. She was a physical education student to the core.

The thought of being cooped up in a room as large as a sports field for months was suffocating.

And people need to live seeing the sun. If she stayed inside a building like this… Didn’t he know about photosynthesis?

Lysei clicked her tongue and leaned her head against the back of the sofa.

What should she do…?

It seemed like he really liked last night’s sex.

But did he really have to lock her up here?

She was a Nixie anyway, so wouldn’t they meet at night even if he didn’t lock her up in the Emperor’s room?

Besides, he hadn’t even shown his face since morning, so she couldn’t understand why he was keeping her locked up in this room.

“Agh!! Damn it!!”

Lysei scratched her head with both hands in frustration.

“I really feel like having a drink…”

Lysei suddenly stopped muttering.

The hand that had been tormenting her head slowly went down, and her blank face soon changed to a bright expression.

“Alcohol!”

Lysei shouted and jumped up.

Right, why didn’t I think of that?

Instead of spacing out like this, she should enjoy a date with alcohol.

But what kind of alcohol is there here?

There wouldn’t be soju, right? Of course not.

Judging from the medieval-like setting, it would probably be wine. Since it’s the imperial family, maybe they have 500-year-old wine?

Humming a tune with pleasant imagination, she went to the door to ask the guard outside to bring her some alcohol. Lysei’s eyes widened in surprise as the door burst open just as she was about to grab the doorknob.

“……”

Standing in front of the door was an incredibly handsome blond man wearing flashy Emperor’s robes, looking every bit like the Emperor.

Ah, I ate this handsome man last night.

Admiring him anew and giving an awkward smile, Lysei greeted Edin, who for some reason didn’t look pleased.

“It looks like your work is over now. You must have had a hard time.”

“Where are you going?”

Ah, is that why he’s upset?

“I wasn’t going out.”

At Lysei’s words, Edin’s furrowed brow relaxed.

Seriously, this brat.

“Then why?”

“Ah, alcohol…”

“Alcohol?”

Crap, should I say this?

“I wanted to ask the person in front of the door for some alcohol…”

She told the truth because he looked like he would be okay with anything except her going outside.

Edin looked at her with a surprised expression for a moment, then opened the door and ordered the attendant.

“Tell them to bring Prarentiora 520.”

Even the name sounded expensive, a whopping 520-year-old wine.

…It is wine, right?

“Ugh!”

Lysei gagged. It was because she had just heard the identity of the 520 something that sounded expensive from the name.

When she first drank the 520 something, she admired the fragrant taste and asked Edin if it was wine. The appetizing blood-red liquor looked like red wine to anyone.

Edin, who was leaning on his chin and arrogantly tilting his glass, explained about the liquor called Prarentiora with a languid face. At that, Lysei gagged as if she would throw up the liquor she had drunk.

“It is a liquor made from the blood of a leech-like blood-sucking monster that lives in the Monster Forest. It mainly sucks the blood of flower-type monsters, so its fragrance is excellent. The longer it is aged, the better the fragrance and taste, so the higher the vintage, the more valuable it is. This is a 520-year-old liquor…”

“Ugh!”

“……”

“No, leech…! Ugh!”

“It’s a rare liquor that you can’t drink even if you have money, but your reaction is interesting.”

No, I wouldn’t drink leech blood even if I had a mountain of money, you crazy bastard. In the first place, leech blood is liquor? Is blood made into alcohol? Does drinking leech blood make you feel good and increase your metabolism?

Lysei picked up the transparent crystal glass and frowned, checking the liquid inside.

“Isn’t there any commonly drunk liquor? Like ordinary liquor made from grapes and sugar.”

“You like grape wine, I see.”

Yes, that.

The wine I was talking about.

“I can’t drink it because I don’t have it.”

Lysei nodded and said, and Edin rubbed his thumb and index finger together, making a snapping sound. Then, as if by magic, the door that had been closed far away opened and the guard who was guarding the outside came in.

Lysei looked back and forth between Edin’s hand and the guard who appeared far away in this absurd situation.

“Did you call, Your Majesty?”

“Bring grape wine.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

No, how can the snapping sound you made here be heard by someone outside the door?

Lysei stared at Edin’s hand with a dumbfounded expression.

“Why.”

Edin asked sullenly at Lysei’s gaze.

It was only now that she realized, but this Emperor’s hands were also crazy.

His long, straight, snow-white hands, which looked like he could play the piano incredibly well, supported his beautiful face and made him look twice as radiant.

Ah, these god-given fingers did this and that to my lower body?!

Lysei’s face flushed without her knowing as she remembered the hot moments of last night.

Edin watched her with interest. His languid eyes captured every one of her expressions. The indifferent corners of his lips were already slightly curled up.

He was exhausted from the never-ending work and the annoying interviews with the nobles, and he didn’t have the leisure to do this when he returned to his bedroom after days of not being able to sleep well.

Taking a Nixie and falling asleep was the most relaxing break for Edin in a tiring day.

And yet, he was drinking with a Nixie. That alone was amazing, but as he observed her every expression, the fatigue he had felt before entering the room miraculously disappeared.

Last night’s sex was just as amazing.

He had taken a Nixie out of curiosity a few times when he first had a relationship with one. But he had never done it until sunrise like last night.

Even after he ejaculated, his lust quickly boiled over, and then a new lust came.

He had never been so aroused, and he had never enjoyed and been so excited by sex to that extent.

What’s so different?

Edin leaned on his chin and observed Lysei.

Her snow-white silver hair and clear blue-green eyes were excessively beautiful.

For a beta of humble status, there were parts of her that felt a little different from the others.

There were parts that made her seem closer to an Omega.

He could fall asleep by relieving his insomnia with Lysei’s scent, so it wasn’t that he suspected she wasn’t a beta, but she definitely had an atmosphere unique to Omegas that didn’t suit betas.

Anyway, those things didn’t matter much, but only her noticeably thin body bothered Edin.

“I need to put on some weight.”

The thoughts in his head popped out of his mouth without him realizing it.

Lysei glanced at him, and Edin, with a slightly embarrassed face because he had said something he didn’t intend to say, picked up the liquor and brought it to his mouth.

I knew it, he doesn’t like skinny women.

Seriously, that raccoon bastard. He must have heard somewhere that the Emperor likes skinny women and starved me too much.

Lysei clicked her tongue inwardly and waited for the grape wine to come quickly.

 

***

 

Lysei was definitely only waiting for grape wine, but a handsome guy came along with the grape wine.

The Emperor’s longtime friend and the Empire’s only Duke, Theor Prasettia.

A male lead candidate who had the nickname “Wolf Duke” because of his gray hair, dark gray eyes, and fierce beast-like personality. He was just as crazy about obsession as the Emperor.

Even though he was a crazy bastard who didn’t hesitate to do worse things than confinement, his suffocatingly handsome face made those crazy things somewhat forgivable.

Of course, there were heated debates between readers who said that trash is trash no matter how handsome it is, and readers who said that it was an acceptable level of obsession.

Lysei, who was a natural face fanatic, was naturally on the latter side, and when she saw him bringing the grape wine himself and showing that million-dollar smile, she thought that she could forgive him for murder with that face, regardless of obsession.

“Did you forget our appointment again, Your Majesty?”

Damn it, I forgot to tell him not to come.

Edin blamed himself for not blocking Theor in advance due to his sudden appearance.

“I didn’t forget.”

Edin, as if he couldn’t help it, sighed and said calmly, gesturing for him to sit on the sofa.

Lysei blinked her eyes, wondering if it was okay for the Duke to come to the Emperor’s bedroom at this late hour.

Moreover, wasn’t she almost in her pajamas? Of course, she wasn’t completely naked, so she wasn’t embarrassed, but it was natural to be flustered when an unknown man suddenly barged in when she was preparing to serve the Emperor.

“This Nixie is quite bold.”

“Enough, drop the honorifics.”

“Hello.”

Theor, ignoring Edin’s words without fear, smiled brightly at Lysei and greeted her. Lysei nodded her head once in embarrassment.

“This reaction is refreshing. They’re usually shy.”

It seemed that Theor came unannounced like this whenever Edin’s Nixie changed. And he must have enjoyed seeing them flustered by the sudden appearance of a strange man.

This, this.

These young punks.

They were doing things that only bad gangsters would do?

Lysei frowned slightly, feeling a little annoyed, but she unknowingly raised the corners of her lips at Theor’s refreshing smile as he smiled brightly at her.

“Should I be shy?”

When Lysei said that, Edin and Theor both looked surprised, so it seemed that they enjoyed seeing the Nixie in her slip flustered and blushing.

Lysei wondered if she should tease these handsome gangsters a little and poured the grape wine he brought into a glass and drank it.

“Ah, this is it.”

A familiar yet much more luxurious taste made her involuntarily exclaim. The grape wine, which was rich in fruit flavor and much smoother, seemed more delicious than the expensive wines that were decades old in her original world. Well, of course, she had never drunk wine much because she was a soju and beer person.

“Is it delicious?”

Theor asked Lysei with a smile on his face. Lysei grinned at him, who was looking at him with a curious expression.

“About twenty times better than that leech blood wine?”

“Haha.”

“……”

Theor laughed coolly. His smiling face was very attractive. Of course, this man was handsome whether he smiled or not.

Of course, he couldn’t compare to the Emperor, who was silently staring at Lysei.

“This Nixie is interesting, isn’t she?”

Theor said, looking at Edin, and one of his eyebrows rose.

“Go back.”

“Huh?”

Theor’s face showed bewilderment, as if he hadn’t expected Edin’s words at all.

Judging from that reaction, these guys had been doing bad things all night, not just playing around for a while. Of course, there was no such description in the original story, but the Emperor and the Duke seemed to have similar tastes and maintained an equal relationship, enough to fight over one heroine.

“You’re telling me to leave already? Really?”

Theor was quite embarrassed because Edin was trying to send him away even though he hadn’t done anything yet.

Usually, when a new Nixie came, Edin would take the first experience, and with the Nixie’s consent, he would watch Edin take it the next day, or if he liked her, the three of them would do it together.

Of course, no Nixie had ever refused them, so he expected it to be similar today.

Besides, this Nixie was the latter type, so he thought it would be nice to have the three of them together for the first time in a while. But suddenly Edin was trying to send him away, so he couldn’t help but be embarrassed.

“Why? Isn’t it better to have more people at a drinking party?”

Moreover, the Nixie, who should have been embarrassed by his appearance, was rather trying to stop him from leaving.

Showing oneself not properly dressed in front of others was a situation that all Nixies, no, everyone would be ashamed of, but he couldn’t understand why she was so confident.

Also, the way she sat with her legs crossed, revealing her thighs precariously, as if she was trying to seduce him, was truly intriguing.

What Nixie could show such an attitude in front of the Emperor and the Duke? Edin’s mischief and his playfulness had combined to give all the Nixies who entered the Imperial Palace this kind of shame.

“Since you’re here, let’s drink together, Your Majesty.”

But instead of shame, such audacity. Theor’s eyes shone with curiosity.

Seeing his old friend’s eyes shining as if he had found something interesting, Edin was getting annoyed.

She was a woman he hadn’t even observed properly yet. He had no intention of sharing her with anyone, and if possible, he had no intention of showing her to anyone.

So he had told her not to go out of his room, and he had tried to stop Theor from coming, as he always did.

But damn it, he had forgotten because of the endless interviews with the nobles and the heavy workload. And now, although it was late, Lysei was suggesting that the three of them drink together, which made him angry.

Edin felt an uncontrollable annoyance and unknowingly released his pheromones, and Theor realized that he shouldn’t be here any longer because of his suffocating pheromones.

Lysei also realized that Edin’s mood was not good because the pleasant, cool scent had suddenly turned cold and heavy.

In the original story, the heroine always knew the mood of the male lead candidates by the smell of pheromones.

“It seems like today is not the day. I’ll see you again next time, Nixie. We’ll introduce ourselves then.”

“Yes.”

Even though she already knew his name, she nodded once and swallowed a sip of wine.

Theor got up and said to Edin, who was annoyed by the pheromones.

“Make time for me later, I have something to tell you.”

“Okay.”

Edin nodded, waving his hand as if to tell him to leave quickly.

Lysei sipped her wine and stared at Theor’s back as he headed towards the door.

“So, it’s better to have more people?”

Edin had already come in front of Lysei, stretched his hands out on the sofa, trapped her in his arms, and growled lowly as he looked down at her.

Lysei, who was tipsy from drinking a few glasses of wine, was looking up at him and thinking useless things like, ‘He has a handsome jawline too.’

“Answer me. Did you say it’s better to have more people?”

“When drinking, um… right?”

“Even when you’re with me?”

“So when drinking……”

“Do you not like being alone with me?”

“No, so……”

“Do you like Theor?”

“No, that……. Huh?”

Lysei’s face contorted as if she was dumbfounded.

No, how does saying that it’s better to have more people when drinking connect to liking Theor?

Judging from his serious expression and the still suffocatingly heavy and chilling pheromones, this man was probably quite angry that she didn’t let him have Theor.

They were supposed to sit down with an innocent Nixie and do bad things, but the Nixie, who was supposed to be embarrassed or cry as soon as she saw them, didn’t, so it must have been disappointing. Lysei was dumbfounded.

Ha……. How do I make this bastard a human being?

I’m not going to interfere with the heroine of a dark novel being abused because it has its own flavor, but I thought I should manage this childish behavior a little. Having finished thinking that far, Lysei reached out and gently cupped Edin’s cheeks, who was blocking her.

She didn’t really intend to, but when she faced his handsome face, her hands moved on their own regardless of her will. There was no way she would ever think of grabbing the Emperor’s face in the first place.

“What do you think?”

Clearly, the answer should have been no, but Lysei gave an answer that Edin had never expected. Even while daring to touch the Emperor’s cheeks.

But instead of feeling bad, his lower body reacted first, so Edin overlapped his lips with hers.

He pressed his lips together with a smacking sound, then pushed harder and stuck out his tongue. But his tongue was pushed back without entering Lysei’s mouth. It was because Lysei pulled her body back and pushed away his two cheeks that she was holding.