“Oh my, Your Majesty! You were here again!”
The Emperor’s advisor, Duke Ludwig, gasped for breath as he ran up.
The man addressed as Your Majesty slowly stood up, gazing at the dim path Kasalyn had just disappeared down.
“Twenty years of playing hide and seek with this old man, and I’m starting to think I won’t live to see eighty.”
“Follow the north path. There should be a woman walking along. Keep an eye on her discreetly.”
Emperor Parnes instructed a knight who had followed Duke Ludwig.
“Yes, Your Majesty,” the knight replied respectfully and quickly disappeared down the path.
Duke Ludwig looked at Parnes with a puzzled expression.
“Your Majesty, a woman?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Surely you weren’t with a woman at this hour?”
When there was no response, Duke Ludwig’s face turned pale as if he had seen a living corpse.
The young king of the Lernel Empire.
Crowned at 16, he led the allied forces and triumphed in war, sitting at the pinnacle of absolute power.
There was very little known about him. Rumors said he was a bloodthirsty tyrant, a philanderer with dozens of illegitimate children.
The nickname ‘bloodthirsty tyrant’ wasn’t entirely unfounded.
But the rumors of philandering were utterly false. Duke Ludwig, who had been his advisor for 20 years, knew Parnes had never even touched a woman’s skirt.
Despite the many young ladies yearning for just one embrace from him.
The fearsome Emperor Parnes was actually a man engrossed in his work, detesting pleasure, and spending his free time under the flower trees, enjoying solitude.
“Have you finally found a lady to your liking?”
“Talking nonsense. You’re getting senile in your old age.”
“How can you say such hurtful things…!”
“It was just a fleeting interest.”
Cutting through the cold dawn air, Parnes murmured,
“A light interest that will soon fade away.”
Since that day, I never saw that nameless man again.
Maybe it was all just a dream or an unreal fantasy. Just when his face started to blur in my memory,
“Oh…!”
While leisurely walking down a path, a squirrel suddenly jumped out of the bushes. As I stumbled over the gravel, a strong hand swiftly caught my arm, saving me from falling face-first.
Relieved, I looked up to see who had helped me.
“Your eyes are just for decoration, it seems.”
His face was pure and noble, a stark contrast to his seductive, devilish voice that jolted my drowsy mind awake.
I never imagined meeting him again, the indifferent man who hadn’t even told me his name.
“Why are you here…?”
“I wasn’t aware there was a rule against walking here.”
He replied curtly and quickly withdrew his hand, as if physical contact was a sin for an ascetic.
“Sorry for startling you. Thank you for catching me.”
“Watching from behind, you wobbled like a newborn fawn.”
“When did I ever wobble like a fawn? And you were following me?”
“Don’t flatter yourself. It was a mere coincidence. I don’t like anyone walking ahead of me.”
Sure, sure. Of course. You’re too important.
Kasalyn suppressed the urge to be sarcastic and glanced at him.
The man, who was just addressed as ‘Your Majesty,’ watched her with an inscrutable expression, as if he had something left to say.
Then,
“Your Majesty!”
Duke Ludwig, the advisor she had seen at the audience with the Emperor, along with some unfamiliar knights, hurried over with relieved expressions.
The only person in this country who would be addressed as ‘Your Majesty’ was the Emperor.
Kasalyn looked around, but Duke Ludwig and the knights stopped right in front of the man she was with and bowed deeply.
“Forgive the intrusion, Your Majesty, but the delegation from the Ram Kingdom has just arrived and requests an audience.”
“You’re all blind as bats, aren’t you?”
His voice, commanding and intimidating, was starkly different from when he spoke with Kasalyn.
“Can’t you see I’m talking to this woman?”
“Ah… my apologies. We will wait until you are finished.”
Duke Ludwig, looking as if he had witnessed something unbelievable, kept stealing glances at Kasalyn before stepping back.
Kasalyn quickly understood the situation.
Why they were bowing so humbly to this man and why he had been so unusually tolerant with her.
Once the knights stepped aside, Emperor Parnes briskly walked away down the opposite path.
Kasalyn, utterly perplexed, watched his receding figure and the knights before hastily following him.
“So, you’re the Emperor.”
Her voice trembled slightly as she asked, and Parnes stopped but did not turn around.
“So, are you disappointed?”
Unsure of his intent, Kasalyn looked bewildered at his silver hair, glinting under the bright afternoon sun.
He slowly turned his head.
“Did you feel deceived by me?”
“No, it’s not that I felt deceived, but…”
Kasalyn hesitated, then shrugged lightly with a faint smile, wondering why a semblance of laughter had returned to her lips.
“Rather, I was surprised. The Emperor I’d only heard about in rumors turned out to be not scary at all.”
Parnes looked surprised at her unexpected answer, then his eyes narrowed.
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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