“If you really want to marry me, you need to make an effort.”
If what he wanted from her was something he had approached her with from the beginning, he wouldn’t give her up just because his pride was hurt.
If there is any connection between Joseph’s obtaining the title from the Swelden family and Randhill being integrated into Resonia, Joseph will definitely find another way.
“It’s not even wartime, how can I…”
If so, the person who benefited the most from this matter.
“You say you love me so much, but you already say it’s impossible?”
A person who has enough power to make a mere commoner knight into a knight of a count’s house.
“I doubt that the person who wrote the letter you just read and you are the same.”
A person who can manipulate the infamous Keinz Empire’s court at will.
“If it’s like that, I need to think again.”
It was Count Graham.
“No, it’s absolutely not like that.”
“Yes, of course. Because you really like me. Right?”
“Yeyes, of course.”
“I don’t have much time, Joseph. I will do my best to delay the marriage proposal, but I can’t wait for you forever. Please don’t put my love to the test.”
“….”
“Just go back. It’s time for the gardener to make the rounds.”
He was unable to reply, as if his words were stuck. Ines looked at him for a moment before rising from her seat. Then she looked at the ring he brought.
“I don’t know when I’ll give you a definite answer, but I’ll keep this. Is that alright?”
As she spoke coldly with her eyes narrowed, he cautiously extended the box to her as if he was reaching out to a tiger. Ines immediately snatched the ring from him.
Someday, when the time comes, this ring will become a trophy of victory for her.
“Then I’ll go.”
Ines turned away from him without hesitation. Then she stopped as if she remembered something.
“Oh, but Joseph.”
As she turned back to him, Joseph’s tense face was visible.
“Do you really think you are… worthless?”
“What?”
Ines looked at him for a moment before turning away. She wasn’t sure whether the stinging feeling at her back was the setting sun or Joseph’s gaze.
(This is the time separator.)
Three days later, Ines was standing in the square where Prince Carson von Raymond was expected to appear. Her father had told her a story that morning that confirmed her suspicions.
“The count wants to call off the engagement.〉
〈Why…?〉
〈The count’s son has to recover for several years, his health isn’t good.〉”
Ines burst into incredulous laughter. The son of the viscount, who was well enough to think about marriage until recently, had suddenly fallen ill……
This meant that behind this matter, there must be a person who possesses great power enough to move the viscount. The viscount Damien had long been a family that served the Earl of Graham. All the circumstances revolving around her were pointing to the lord of Resonia.
What he was aiming for was still unknown, but it was certain that what Ines had to deal with was not Joseph but the Earl of Graham.
Seeing people pouring into the square, Ines snapped out of her thoughts. Worried that she might not see him, she had been standing in the Resonia square from dawn, impatiently.
Watching people make way for the knights’ guidance and standing on both sides, she guessed that he would soon reveal himself in the square. Ines’s heart began to beat rapidly.
It was a brief encounter, but she clearly remembered his appearance.
Ines had stayed overnight at Carson’s mansion after being rescued by him. And then she met him the next day. The shiny black hair and deep eyes were so beautiful that they seemed otherworldly.
Carson was a person who exuded an intimidating presence just by existing. She instinctively trembled, expecting the horrible flogging that would come soon. But he just looked at Ines and spat out one word.
“Let her sleep more, and send her out when it’s bright.”
The words seemed cold at a glance, but he didn’t just throw her out.
She was able to eat warm meals until she was full, and her green dress she wore when she left was laundered like new. He even provided her with a thick coat and treated her wounds. He even gave her some money.
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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