I heard Ricardo flop onto the bed. When I turned around, he was lying on the bed, half-closed eyes fixed on me.
Why did I feel seduced just looking at his sleepy face?
Ricardo’s petty mischief, the mischievous tone that only I would notice, the moist look in his eyes as he lay languidly on the bed.
“Why, want me to put you to sleep?”
Even his laughter-laced voice, half serious, half joking, sounded just like in our childhood.
Back then, I sat by his bedside and gently ran my fingers through his soft black hair.
“Shall I sing for you?” If I asked, he would reply, “You really can’t sing, just read me a book.”
But no matter how familiar Ricardo feels now, I couldn’t give the same answer as I did back then.
“No, I won’t be able to sleep if I stay.”
“Actually…”
He murmured in a half-asleep voice.
“It’s strange, when I look at you, I feel sleepy… and hungry.”
With those words, he fell asleep, breathing rhythmically and defenselessly.
I felt an urge to go closer and stroke his hair but shook my head to rid myself of the thought.
Quietly opening the door, I found Freddy waiting outside. Our eyes met, and I smiled awkwardly.
“Sorry for disappearing without a word.”
“It’s alright. As long as you’re safe.”
“It won’t happen again.”
He nodded slightly.
“And the Young Duke…?”
“He’s asleep.”
“He must have been very tired. He hardly slept for four days.”
Now that there’s no war, the heirs of the ducal family work mainly for the royal court. Plus, he had to deal with my family’s issues, so he must have been truly busy.
Once Ricardo becomes the Duke, even the royal family won’t be able to send him to battle recklessly. The family’s matters take precedence.
“He has been busy indeed.”
The fact that my family could come here now meant that Ricardo had already taken action before I even entered the ducal residence.
“Yes, he’s always busy. Would you like to see your family now?”
“No, the Young Duke didn’t permit me to meet them today.”
“That was probably just something he said.”
“I know, but I still want to follow his words. He must have had a hard time because of me.”
“Understood. I will arrange for you to meet them tomorrow morning.”
“Thank you, please take good care of my family.”
“Don’t worry about that.”
Freddy quickly walked away to carry out Ricardo’s orders. I returned to my room immediately.
I had many questions for Ricardo.
When had he planned to bring the Fennel family people, and why? How did those paintings I saw today come to his mind? Was he really… intending to engage with me?
But I didn’t ask anything.
I felt like no matter what answer I received, I wouldn’t be able to handle it.
That night, naturally, I couldn’t sleep deeply. Thankfully, Freddy had informed me through my personal maid that my family was safely settled in their accommodations. Even so, sleep eluded me.
In the early dawn, when the sky was faintly lit, I finally fell into a shallow sleep.
〈Cock-a-doodle-doo, cock-a-cock-a-doodle-doo.〉
Was it because I heard my family was at the mansion? I dreamt of our home in Resotia. It was a particularly tender and warm dream, with the sound of a chicken crowing distinctively different from the others, echoing faintly.
〈Cock-a-cock-a-doodle-doo, cock-a-doodle-doo.〉
“Mm, hmm, Coco must have laid an egg. But sister, let me sleep a bit more.”
The familiar sound of the chicken’s crow, heard after so long, didn’t wake me up. Instead, it pulled me deeper into the dream.
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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