“Deborah? Deborah, where are you?”
Lady Heather’s voice, searching for Deborah in the corridor, echoed. Deborah lowered the broom she was holding, wiped her hands on the apron, and responded.
“Did you find me?”
“Oh, my. Look at you, covered in sweat. Were you working?”
“It’s working hours now.”
“Oh dear. Hey, on a day like today with no servants around, you can take a break.”
“But you said you’d pay extra…”
As Deborah spoke with a nonchalant expression, Lady Heather sighed deeply.
“Still, take a break. The weather is nice, so go outside and get some fresh air.”
After saying that, Lady Heather quickly changed her mind.
“No, if I say that, you’ll probably stand there blankly behind the mansion.”
Deborah was surprised. When did she see herself doing that?
“Um… Oh! Since I’ll give you money, buy some novels. Also, get some violet sugar jam!”
“But you don’t like violet sugar jam, right?”
Deborah remembered that Lady Heather had given away the violet sugar jam she received as a gift to the servants.
Lady Heather shrugged.
“Well, but today, somehow I feel like eating it.”
With that, Deborah was tasked with an errand.
Although Lady Heather said it was okay to come back much later, Deborah, thinking that she couldn’t neglect her work, hastened her steps. She was grateful to Lady Heather for allowing her to enjoy the nice weather outside.
However, at that moment, a commotion arose from a dark and foul-smelling alley.
“This brat! How dare he run off with my money?”
Thud! A large man cursed while stomping on something.
Deborah knew very well that intervening in such matters was not the wisest course of action.
The most she could do was perhaps find a police officer.
But what the man was trampling on wasn’t an adult.
“You little brat!”
Before the man’s words could finish, Deborah’s eyes shifted to the ground.
She was shocked to see a small and frail boy being trampled. What should she do? Eventually, she screamed.
“Aaaah!”
The tremendous scream attracted people’s attention, and they started gathering, asking what was happening.
Cold sweat formed on the man’s face.
“Tsk! You’re lucky, you know that!”
As soon as the man disappeared, Deborah rushed to the boy.
“Hey! Are you okay?”
“Ugh…”
Holding onto the ground as if his life depended on it, the boy struggled to get up.
Concerned, Deborah extended her hand to the boy, who seemed to be intact despite his appearance.
“Are you okay?”
“Get lost.”
The boy pushed away Deborah’s hand and spoke.
Looking at the boy’s eyes glaring at her, Deborah finally recalled that this was the same child she had encountered before.
At that moment, a distant sound of a police whistle could be heard.
“What’s going on there!”
The police were urgently running towards the crowd gathered there.
“Darn it!”
The boy struggled to get up.
“Ugh…”
With a battered body, it was challenging for him to stand.
Every time a drop of sweat on the boy’s face touched the injured area, it stung terribly.
However, the reason the boy grimaced at that moment was not because of the pain. It was because he was worried about getting caught by the police.
They hadn’t even left the alley, but the police’s voices were getting closer.
The eyes of the boy, who had to run energetically, widened uncontrollably.
It wasn’t because of the pain. He was just surprised, captivated by Deborah’s figure, unable to take his eyes off her back.
“Ugh… Ugh.”
Deborah took the boy to the back alley of Heather Mansion. This place was not frequented by people, especially not by the wealthy.
‘I feel like I’m going to throw up…!’
Deborah sat down and breathed heavily. It had been a long time since she had run like this.
‘I was confident in my stamina…’
Standing for a long time at work and running energetically seemed to have a significant difference.
“What’s wrong with you?”
The boy, sitting next to Deborah just like her, spoke gruffly.
Despite being covered in bruises and having run as hard as she did, the boy seemed less tired than Deborah.
Without answering the boy’s question, Deborah abruptly stood up.
For a moment, Deborah’s legs wobbled, surprising the boy. However, she didn’t fall.
“Ugh. Just a moment. Ugh.”
“What did you say?”
Furrowing his brows, the boy spoke sharply. After taking a deep breath to calm herself, Deborah spoke again.
“Just wait a moment, okay?”
“…….”
“Got it? You can’t go, okay? It’s a promise.”
As Deborah headed towards the mansion, the boy belatedly shouted.
“What promise! Who are you to tell me to wait?”
It felt like an uncomfortable cat was crying. Deborah, who had no strength to look back, thought as she entered the mansion.
‘I have to make him wait.’
If he disappeared when she returned, she felt like she would worry about it forever. Deborah quickly grabbed what she needed and returned.
Fortunately, the boy was still sitting there.
“It’s a relief. You stayed.”
“…I didn’t wait for you.”
Avoiding eye contact, the boy muttered.
“My leg hurt, so I couldn’t get up.”
“Sure. I guess that’s it.”
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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