The child clutching a chocolate box in his arms ran and ran, his cheeks flushed, until he arrived at a small stationery store.
“The sales are better around the end of the year, huh!”
“That’s true.”
“You really worked hard today!”
“Thank you, Boss. I’ll see you tomorrow.”
As the woman who had just said goodbye to the shop owner was leaving, the child hurriedly ran to her.
“Mom!”
“Oh, Daniel!”
Instead of being glad to see her son, the mother was alarmed.
Coming out alone at night! In Dover, it was common for poor peasant children to be kidnapped. They were often sold to factories in other cities or even shipped off as slaves to foreign lands. The stories were endless and terrifying.
Moreover, she was in debt. If those men had discovered her child alone!
Chilled by the horrific thought, the woman scolded him.
“Didn’t I tell you it’s dangerous!”
“But it’s boring alone.”
“I’ll be back soon. Just wait! What if you meet bad people!”
“I’m fast. They won’t catch me!”
“Please, Daniel!”
She squatted down, gripping Daniel’s shoulders. Her stern gaze didn’t leave his face.
Defeated, Daniel looked away, and she pleaded.
“Promise me, you’ll listen to me, please!”
“Alright…”
Daniel answered listlessly, causing her heart to ache again.
She felt sorry for him. How could she not? Leaving such a young child alone all day and not being able to buy him a proper coat in this cold weather. It was all too suffocating.
But there are things in life that can’t be helped. Just like she couldn’t escape her current situation.
“Sigh…”
Feeling miserable, she tried to speak to her son.
‘I’m sorry for scolding you.’
But the words didn’t come easily, fearing that her apology might make Daniel take her serious advice lightly.
Finally noticing that the child was holding something, she realized.
‘What’s that?’
It was dark, and he was clutching it tightly, so she couldn’t see clearly. Perhaps some newspaper thrown away by a gentleman?
“Daniel, what is that?”
“Th-that is…”
Startled, Daniel hunched over more. His mother’s sharp gaze forced the box from his arms.
“Ah!”
He reached out desperately for the box, but it was too late.
The box was clearly expensive, and though she didn’t know what was inside, the packaging alone suggested something valuable.
‘How did he get this… Could it be?’
Fearing the worst, she confronted him.
“Where did you get this?”
Tears welled up in frightened Daniel’s eyes.
But she didn’t relent.
“Tell me now!”
Finally, the child, tears rolling down his cheeks, answered.
“A lady gave it to me earlier!”
“What? Stop lying to me! Tell the truth!”
“It’s true!”
He quickly turned his head, looking for the kind lady who had given him the chocolate, hoping she could defend him from his angry mother.
As Daniel was hopping around, a small miracle happened. He spotted Deborah standing with Jen a block away.
“That person gave it to me!”
Daniel pointed desperately at Deborah with his small finger.
“You really!”
The woman didn’t believe the child’s words but instinctively followed the direction of his gesture. Her eyes, sharp as needles, softened, resembling a girl watching snowflakes.
“…….”
Her breath stopped. She couldn’t hear anything. She just kept asking herself. Is it really you? Really…
The woman’s hands trembled. She wanted to rush to Deborah right away, but her legs wouldn’t move.
Deborah didn’t wait for her and got into the car. The woman grew more anxious.
At that moment, the shop owner, who had been pretending not to notice the whole scene, finally couldn’t bear it and came out.
“For heaven’s sake! Let the kid go! You’re breaking my heart watching this.”
The brief moment the woman turned to look at the shop owner, the car started moving.
“Ah!”
The woman, looking like she might burst into tears any moment, stared hard at the car as it gradually drove away. The owner, noting her strange behavior, asked cautiously.
“What’s wrong, Sage?”
Sage couldn’t answer. The emotions she had kept hidden for ten years couldn’t be explained in a short sentence.
Not far from Hales Department Store in the bustling area was 5th Avenue.
This street was lined with shops primarily frequented by wealthy men.
To the uninitiated, the street’s flagship might be the decades-old traditional tailoring shop ‘Loredo,’ but those in business knew that ‘Chelsea’s Club’ was the real symbol of this street.
Chelsea’s Club, a young men’s exclusive membership club still emitting a whiff of novelty, always filled with the scent of whiskey and cigars, along with elegant self-praise and crude jokes. It was established by the grandson of the Grand Duke of Delta and his noble friends.
Therefore, the members were mostly young nobles who hadn’t yet received their titles and a few young bourgeoisie.
The reputation of Chelsea’s Club was remarkable.
Older gentlemen would manage their sons’ visits, disparaging it as a vulgar place where commoners and nobles mingled, while recent university graduates dreamed of becoming a member.
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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