Enes unhesitatingly unbuttoned her clothes. He carefully lowered one shoulder. The wounds were a bit more severe than her face.
“I don’t need to stitch them up, but it’ll hurt more than earlier.”
He furrowed his brow and meticulously treated Enes’s wounds. Seeing him, Enes smiled like a gentle breeze.
“You’ve become a good legislator. I knew you would. I’m really grateful.”
“Not yet.”
Marcus blushed, but he didn’t stop treating the wounds.
“Enes.”
“Yes, what is it?”
“Do you… like him?”
In response to that question, Enes chuckled. Marcus, unable to look her in the eye after asking such a serious question, continued treating her wounds.
“Thank you for asking. I didn’t know well until now, but it seems I wanted to tell someone, anyone.”
“…”
“It’s not something that can be hidden. That… thing called love.”
Observing Enes, who responded to the question of whether she liked him with the word ‘love,’ Marcus couldn’t help but loosen up and smile.
“In the end, it happened that way. Like water freezing in the cold and thawing again when the weather clears, I ended up loving him so naturally, as if it were a given.”
Although it was a reflection in her mind, once the thoughts erupted, they continued eloquently without the fixed counterpart being present.
“I haven’t realized it for long, but maybe I’ve harbored these feelings from the beginning. Unreasonably and conspicuously.”
From the moment she opened her eyes in his house and first faced Carson’s face. No, perhaps from the moment she was pulled out of the water and confronted with his dazzling gold eyes.
On the day when Carson couldn’t remember and the event that never happened in this world, Enes may not have known that she already loved him.
And so, she might not have known whether she wanted to stay by his side while rationalizing it with words of living for him.
She may not have known why she wanted to stay by his side, suffering from a trivial heart disease that only returned to its place when Carson touched her.
Yes, she might not have known such things.
The Enes Swenden at that time was too miserable, shabby, and always wanted to die.
On the contrary, Carson always shone, was great, and always saved her.
But where there is light, there is shadow, and just as a brilliant spring comes only after a long winter.
In the end, Enes Swenden fell in love with Carson von Raymond.
It was as natural and beautiful as the sunset and sunrise, the ebb and flow of waves.
“It ended up like that. In such an absurd situation, on such an absurd subject.”
Marcus gazed at Enes for a moment. Even as she spoke of an impossible love, she was neither miserable nor unhappy. Shining brightly from anywhere, as if it were her privilege alone.
Seeing her like that, he pursed his lips. But his hesitation didn’t last long.
“By any chance… I mean.”
“…”
“If I don’t have anything to do with it.”
“What… are you talking about?”
“If whatever situation you’re in, whoever you love, if that fact doesn’t bother me.”
Enes narrowed her eyes. If he claimed that he didn’t know her heart until now, it would be a lie. Marcus was always close to her even when she was in Edmont. But he considered that his heart at that time was like turning away from her. More honestly, the then Enes didn’t have the luxury to look at someone else.
“Someday, won’t you also have to form a family, Your Highness?”
“…”
“It may sound sudden, but my feelings have been there for a very long time.”
“So, knowing that I love His Majesty, are you proposing?”
“Yes.”
“Even if I involuntarily stop breathing and turn my eyes to the sky?”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Did I install a terrifying object in the mountains to kill someone?”
“That’s not a problem for me.”
Enes looked at him cleanly and then chuckled softly.
“Really… I’m grateful.”
“I didn’t ask for your gratitude.”
“Thank you for saying it so clearly. So now, I can say it firmly too.”
“…”
“Thank you very much, but I’ll decline. It would have been harder to refuse if you had asked without any feelings.”
Marcus laughed at Enes’s neat response. He judged that proposing indirectly was the better choice, as she suggested.
“I expected it, but it stings a bit.”
Smiling with a slightly bitter expression, Marcus soon put on the light smile he showed in Edmont.
“I can’t apply the disinfectant, so it’s awkward.”
He stood up, dusting off his clothes.
“But I won’t give up. I won’t even say I’ll be by your side as a friend. Marcus Kye.”
“Yes, I understand the desire to stop. But you know my feelings since you love His Majesty. I want to be by his side even if it means being the starting point.”
“…”
“So just watch. You don’t need to worry. I’ll just live my life earnestly. Just remember that there’s someone with such feelings around. People’s hearts can change at any time.”
As he was about to say that it wouldn’t happen, the door of the treatment room suddenly opened.
“Enes!”
The one who entered noisily was none other than the Emperor.
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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