[Wet Nurse] [Powerful Minister] [Medicinal Catalyst] [Chaste Hero] [Love Grows Over Time] [Child-Rearing] [Mutual Devotion] [One-on-One, Happy Ending]
He is cold and chaste, with power over the entire court, yet every night her fragrance drives him out of his senses.
"Your Highness, the young heir needs to be fed." She kneels on the ground, her voice trembling.
A low, husky voice comes from behind the curtain: "Her."
From then on, she can come and go freely in the forbidden study. A jade bell is tied around her ankle, ringing wherever she goes:
"If you keep *teasing me like this, I can't promise what I'll do."
They meet by chance in the bathing pool. She bumps into a pillar and covers her eyes. He chuckles: "Where are you *looking?"
As she feeds him medicine by the bedside, he slips a sweet into her mouth: "There, now it's not bitter."
Everyone says the regent has no interest in women, until he takes off his cloak at a palace banquet and wraps it around her in front of everyone:
"She's mine. Who dares touch her?"
He turns away every attempt to drug him or arrange a marriage, just to make her swear:
"You mustn't marry anyone else."
She asks why. He kisses the back of her hand: "Because I... can't live without you."
Only later does she learn that it was never the scent of milk. It was poison, an addiction, the only light in the prison where he was confined as a child.
Not bad! Thank you, author, for updating diligently! Very much looking forward to it