“Why?”
At my question, Nathaniel turned me around with an indifferent face and said,
“Because the Count of Menisil will be called by His Majesty tomorrow morning.”
“Oh.”
Yes, thinking about it, Nathaniel was surprisingly uninterested in women in the original work.
His father, the Emperor, was worried enough to worry about his son’s sexual preference.
But for Nathaniel to suddenly dance with a woman.
They would surely try to betroth them right away.
‘Ah, but this is a perfect development.’
It was the ending I had dreamed of.
“You seem to be having malicious thoughts.”
“No? Not at all?”
“A princess cannot hide her expression. Don’t live a lie from now on. It’s obvious.”
I was infuriated by his mocking attitude.
“Yes, yes. Then it must be hard for Your Highness to keep secrets too.”
“That’s true.”
At his cool smile, I felt like I knew what he meant.
I closed my mouth quietly.
It was the moment I realized that silence was crucial if I wanted to live long.
“Yes, silence is important.”
Nathaniel finally looked at me and smiled, satisfied.
The dance I thought would never end finally did.
Maximilian was back. His expression was astonishingly cold.
Maximilian and Teresa’s eyes met. Teresa, who had been standing firm against the stares of the men around her, turned her body and went back outside.
There was no doubt he was angry.
Teresa looked at me.
“Go and talk to him properly, sister.”
“Yes. I should.”
“If you convey your heart honestly, everything will be fine.”
From here, it was truly their problem.
I had interfered as much as an outsider could.
“Whatever decision you make, sister, I’ll always support you.”
Without answering, Teresa, who just nodded, followed Maximilian outside.
“What will you do if you get caught?”
The Crown Prince asked above my head. I looked up at him and said,
“Then I’ll have to create that person even if I get beaten to death.”
“A great affection.”
Nathaniel laughed out loud.
[This is the time separator]Teresa, who followed Maximilian, found him standing in a deep part of the garden.
“Max?”
“Don’t come.”
At his unusually excited voice, Teresa hesitated, but approached him again.
“Max, I’m coming closer.”
“Don’t come, I said!”
His face distorted in anger in the moonlight. Teresa had a strange feeling.
Was he jealous because he saw her dancing with another man?
Or else…
“Don’t we need to talk?”
“What’s there to talk about? You’ve always pretended not to know when I’ve been looking for you.”
Despite Maximilian’s cold response, Teresa approached him. For some reason, she felt that if not now, it wouldn’t be possible.
It felt like a last chance.
Teresa grabbed his wrist over the low wall.
“Max.”
In Maximilian’s indifferent eyes, different emotions arose.
Contempt, anger, jealousy; all kinds of negative things.
Teresa flinched and let go of Maximilian’s hand.
“You’re the same.”
“Max?”
“You were the same woman as your mother.”
Teresa was taken aback by his clear anger.
Maximilian attacked Teresa like a wild beast.
“You’ll probably use your appearance as a weapon to control me too.”
“Max, no. That’s not it.”
“What’s not it?”
Teresa recalled the past of the Duchess of Winters, who was currently estranged from the Duke.
The Duchess, beautiful enough to shake the empire, knew her beauty well.
Certainly, here’s the translated passage:
The woman whom even the Emperor wanted had to be forcibly married to the Duke of Winters due to her family’s coercion.
But unlike the noble and beautiful Duchess, the Duchy of Winters at that time was a poor and rugged place.
The cold and desolate time in the North had made the Duchess frail.
Years later, when the ducal family, who had amassed wealth and honor through the success of their marble business, returned to the center, she had completely changed.
The Duchess of Winters caused endless scandals by using her appearance.
There were many men drawn to her beautiful appearance, and she herself enjoyed it too.
Eventually, it was around that time that she went into a separate life due to friction with the Duke of Winters.
“I told you from the beginning. The reason I allowed our engagement was because you don’t use your appearance like other women.”
“When did I ever use my appearance? I just attended this place!”
“Then why didn’t you ask me to go with you!”
Teresa tightly bit her lips at Maximilian’s words. Maximilian thought she was making excuses.
Just when he was about to retort with sarcasm.
“Who asks that to a partner?”
“What?”
A voice mixed with tears.
Maximilian looked into Teresa’s eyes.
Her black eyes, like dark pearls, glistened with moisture.
“Usually, men ask women to be their partners.”
Maximilian then recalled what Jaina had said.
The question about whether he had asked Teresa.
“But you always refused.”
“It was all because I hated you. I said I don’t like going to these places, I don’t like holding hands with another man and dancing.”
“Then why on earth today!”
After shouting, Maximilian seemed to realize his mistake and closed his mouth.
“We’ve been together for over 20 years now. I thought you would trust me by now.”
Teresa’s eyes were full of resentment as she looked at him.
Maximilian realized something was wrong at the sight of that unfamiliar emotion.
It was a mistake.
But for some reason, his mouth would not open.
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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