“Are you okay?”
Maximilian sat beside Teresa, wrapping an arm around her shoulder.
He had only tried to help her get up, but Teresa didn’t want even that.
“Let go of this!”
Startled by Teresa, who roughly pushed him away, Maximilian retreated.
He couldn’t approach any further as he was panting heavily.
“Why are you doing this to me?”
“Teresa…… I, just.”
Maximilian couldn’t say anything.
Teresa had ten mouths and couldn’t excuse herself.
She only realized it after she had withdrawn her interest from him.
How painful it is to cling blindly to someone who won’t even look at you.
“Just…… sorry.”
Thinking about how hurt and tormented Teresa must have been by his actions, his throat tightened.
Maximilian bowed his head.
He didn’t have the confidence to look her in the eye.
“It’s no use saying that.”
Teresa felt her fingertips grow cold.
On the contrary, she felt a fire surging within.
She vomited up the things she had suppressed all along like spitting blood.
“Do you feel sorry for me now because you can’t have me?”
“No, it’s not that.”
“Then why are you saying sorry? You shouldn’t have treated me like that if you were sorry!”
Teresa recalled the time she had been chasing Maximilian.
She wasn’t dumb, pretending to know nothing.
“I believed you, no matter who you met outside, no matter what rumors there were.”
There were too many women following Maximilian.
She thought they were blinded by jealousy and spread all kinds of rumors.
“Did I ever complain about such a thing?”
Maximilian shook his head.
He thought it was a matter of course at that time. But it wasn’t.
Maximilian didn’t know how hard it was to trust someone completely.
“You ruined everything, Max. It’s your arrogance and distrust that ruined our relationship.”
With a screamlike yell, Maximilian turned his eyes.
It was a relationship he once believed to be perfect.
But that relationship was all made up of Teresa’s tears and pain.
The relationship built on her sacrifice would have shattered eventually.
“I know, Teresa, how cruelly I treated you.”
Time couldn’t be turned back to the past.
If he could, he wanted to go back to the moment when she was not hurt.
To the days when they were pure and happy.
“And how much you were hurt.”
“How could you do this to me, knowing that!”
Tears splashed from her clear eyes, wetting her cheeks and dress.
Maximilian wanted to wipe them away, but he couldn’t reach out.
They were no longer in that kind of relationship.
“Teresa, please. Don’t cry.”
“Don’t confuse me any more. I thought I had finally found peace, why are you doing this!”
Maximilian bit his lip and spoke softly.
“I still love you.”
It was a short confession.
But a confession that Teresa had never heard even once during the long time they were together.
“Ha, love.”
“You don’t have to believe me, you don’t have to accept it. Just, just stay by my side, please.”
“Now that it comes to this…!”
Teresa’s body staggered greatly.
Her vision blackened due to crying and screaming angrily while burning with fever.
“Teresa!”
Maximilian reflexively caught the collapsing Teresa.
Her body was as hot as a fireball.
“This….”
Teresa tried to push Maximilian away but stopped speaking when she saw him trembling.
Although her vision was dim from the fever, she noticed that his face was pale with terror.
“Is, is there nobody there!”
At Maximilian’s shout, a maid who had been waiting in the distance for their conversation to finish ran up.
“The carriage, or a doctor!”
The maid who had worked in the Crown Prince’s Palace for a long time knew well how much Jaina cared for Teresa.
She quickly assessed the situation and offered the best solution.
“First, let’s go to the guest room of the Crown Prince’s Palace. I’ll inform His Highness the Duke and call for a doctor.”
“I know the location of the guest room, so go inform His Highness the Duke immediately.”
The maid, after hesitating for a moment, nodded her head and ran to the banquet hall.
Maximilian, looking down at Teresa, who was struggling in his arms, whispered softly.
“Even if you hate it, endure it just a little, Teresa.”
Teresa, who had no strength to resist, chose to just stay still.
Only the sound of someone running quickly remained in the hallway.
(This is a time separator.)
Diana, who had been holding her breath behind the pillar, collapsed on the spot.
[Dash] I still love you.Maximilian’s earnest confession lingered in her ears.
She had never seen someone so beautiful in her life.
A gentle voice, beautiful appearance, and the respect he maintained towards her, unlike other men.
A man like a prince from a fairy tale would never have a place in his heart for an ordinary woman like her.
“Sigh….”
Not ordinary, but less than that.
Threatened by the Empress, a woman who seduced a married man.
And now, having failed at seduction, her life was truly in danger.
Since entering the social circles of the capital, Diana realized that the Groban Earl’s house was nothing to the high nobility.
‘If I go on like this, I’ll end up dead.’
She had to cling to someone.
But her mind was so filled with Maximilian’s story that she could not think of anything else.
Even from afar, she could see how much he loved that woman.
A vile jealousy crawled up.
Desire for a man she could not have, and anger at a woman who rejected such a man’s love, mixed together.
The enormous wave of emotion swept away her shallow reason.
Diana stood up abruptly.
She didn’t need the Empress or the Crown Prince.
Wasn’t there a man who put them both beneath his feet?
She looked down at the halfempty bottle of poison she had saved just in case.
The book had said that the whole bottle should be poured to be effective, but half a bottle would still have some effect.
Diana, with cold, sunken eyes, headed for the banquet hall.
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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