“An animal?”
I was about to walk by, but the sound I heard was too pitiful.
“Is it injured somewhere?”
Eventually, I turned back and headed towards where the sound was coming from. Pushing aside the bushes, I found a small animal curled up in a ball.
“A lizard?”
A lizard the size of a small dog had adorable wings attached to its back.
Has there ever been a lizard with wings?
After a moment’s consideration, I soon recalled the identity of the animal.
“Could it be a dragon from the legends?”
“Peep!”
The little dragon barely raised its head to look at me, and then started to crawl.
At this wondrous sight, I knelt down and watched the baby dragon crawl.
It was surprising, since dragons often appeared in the original work, but I wasn’t scared.
Its round and cute appearance looked adorable.
“Oops!”
The baby dragon hadn’t gone far when it fell over again.
I knelt down beside the dragon.
On closer inspection, I saw that there were scales stuck to its body.
The scales had fallen off its back and belly, but they were still on its legs, tail, and especially on its face.
“Are you shedding?”
I recalled a video I had seen on YouTube in my previous life about caring for reptiles.
If left like this, the joints could break, or it might become inflamed and have to be amputated.
“Dragons are reptiles after all.”
I picked up the struggling baby dragon and went near the lake.
To prevent injury, I wet its body in the water and waited for the scales to soften.
“Peep, peep.”
“Just bear with it for a bit.”
The dragon didn’t seem to like it and splashed water around with its tail.
I firmly held the baby dragon’s body with one hand and carefully peeled off the soft, soaked scales.
The baby dragon soon calmed down, as if it knew I was trying to help.
“Oh dear, you’re doing well. Yes, yes. I’ll be careful not to hurt you.”
Finally, after peeling off all the scales, the baby dragon quickly escaped from my hand.
I was speechless at the sight of it disappearing into the middle of the lake.
I hadn’t expected a thank you, but since it was a divine beast, I thought something strange might happen.
“Now, where is Prince Nathaniel?”
I stood up and straightened my dress. The water had splashed while helping the baby dragon, and it was a mess.
If I met Nathaniel in this state, he would think it was strange.
“I should go back. I’m sure he’s coming here today.”
I turned around, grumbling, but strangely, my body didn’t move forward.
“Huh?”
I felt around in the air with my hand. It was like being blocked by an invisible wall.
What’s going on here?
That’s when I felt something eerie from behind.
That’s right, like when I was bragging about having twenty lives when I only had one, and got caught…
“How did you get in here?”
The spinechilling voice was the person I’d been looking for, but I was not pleased to hear it. I pretended not to hear and tried to move forward.
“You’re pretending not to hear?”
His voice dropped a tone lower. I cautiously looked back.
“Ha… haha. It’s an honor to meet you, Prince Nathaniel.”
Nathaniel, floating on the clear blue water, was taking off his shirt.
Seeing the perfect proportions of a male upper body that I had only seen in magazines in 3D, my heart strangely fluttered.
“You must have about a hundred lives, princess.”
Nathaniel swept his wet black hair back and smiled arrogantly.
He walked across the water and stood before me.
“Since last time, you’ve been following me around. Who sent you?”
He was intimidating even when standing still. I felt tense, and my body stiffened.
His sharply glowing red eyes resembled the cute creature I had seen earlier.
‘I shouldn’t have picked it up because it was cute.’
Only then did I recall the connection between the adorable baby dragon that had just disappeared and that arrogant and irritable man.
But if I told that story, he would probably kill me on the spot.
I decided to put forward a false front.
“Oh, you’re mistaken. What power do I have?”
At my words, he narrowed his eyes and approached me. I backed away, but was stopped by the invisible wall.
“Then tell me, why did you come all the way here to find me?”
“I came to apologize for the rudeness of that day.”
“Is that really all? You weren’t sent by the Empress or the princess?”
“I’ve never even spoken to them.”
Nathaniel didn’t even pretend to listen to my words. His eyes, redder than blood, blazed with anger.
Certainly, here’s the translation:
“Is… Is it really true?”
Nathaniel’s expression suddenly changed, and he quickly covered my mouth.
“They surely disappeared this way! Find them.”
People in black clothes appeared out of nowhere and swarmed in.
They were dressed suspiciously and looked around for something.
“Agh!”
The wall supporting me disappeared, and I fell backward. To be precise, onto the bushes beside it.
I felt a sting as I hit the small trees.
Then I realized I couldn’t feel the hand that had covered my mouth. At that moment, I felt a heavy weight on my stomach.
“Could it be.”
Turns Out He’s Been Secretly in Love with Me
One-line summary: He acts like he doesn’t like her but is actually playing hard to get.
Synopsis:
Xu Muzhou like her. He has liked her for a very long time, and through repeated schemes, he finally closed the distance with her.
But this is still far from enough.
He wants to be the one who stands out among her many suitors, to fight for her attention, and to make her take the initiative to pursue him.
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