Stella repeated herself, but still, there was no response.
“Am I imagining things?”
Considering the fatigue from the long journey, it was plausible to experience auditory hallucinations. Despite feeling uneasy, she decided to conclude it as such.
Shortly after, Stella drank the tea brought by the maid and lay in bed, feeling her body relax into the softness, a stark contrast to the rough nights on the swaying ship.
“Am I just cut out to be a hostage?”
When she had arrived in the Credion Empire, she felt like livestock brought to the slaughterhouse. But with such treatment, she thought she might at least be an esteemed pet. She dismissed the notion of being a potential Empress as a far-off tale unrelated to her.
Lost in various thoughts, Stella felt her eyelids grow heavy and closed her eyes.
Softly, softly.
As the only sound left in the bedroom was her even breathing, a figure hiding behind the curtains peeked out cautiously.
“Esta, she can’t see you!”
Just as Esta stuck out her head to sneak a peek at Stella, someone pushed her from behind.
“Ah!”
Miraculously avoiding a fall and dangling from the curtain like a swing, Esta managed to land on the bed with a soft thud.
“What do you think? Is it her?”
Perched on the windowsill, Ark asked seriously, his chubby cheeks filled with a baby carrot he had just bitten into. The sweet crunch of the carrot brought a contented smile to his plump face.
“I’m not sure. It seems like it, but also maybe not.”
As Esta tiptoed closer to Stella’s face, she sank into the plush bedding, half of her body engulfed in the comforter.
“Don’t go! What will you do then?”
Ark, with a carrot stuffed in his cheek, complained.
“If she heard us, then she’s not one of them!”
“But there are those who hear and still aren’t like us! Have you forgotten?”
“Still, this time feels different.”
Ark tapped his short legs impatiently, but Esta, her eyes sharp and alert, continued to edge closer to Stella.
“Look, she has the energy of the earth.”
Esta pointed to Stella’s pillow. Ark, who had been watching nervously, struggled down the curtain.
“Help me down.”
The curtain being too short to reach the bed, Ark couldn’t jump down and dangled, calling for Esta. The carrot he was holding stuck out of his pocket.
“Why come down if you’re scared?”
With a sigh, Esta extended her arms under the curtain. Despite his grumbling, Ark looked relieved to see Esta approaching.
“Jump!”
Bracing for the impact, Esta yelled, tensing her body. Ark let go of the curtain, but it wasn’t his chubby form that landed on Esta.
As the moonlight streaming through the window was blocked, a large shadow enveloped Esta’s head.
“Uh-oh?”
Above her, a giant hand hovered like a roof. Ark was sitting on it, his little feet dangling.
“You guys talk well?”
Stella’s face suddenly appeared above the two little ones.
“Aaah!”
“Eek!”
Ark, startled on the palm, thrashed about, while Esta collapsed to the ground, screaming.
Startled herself, Stella quickly shook her hand, causing Ark to tumble onto the bed. The carrot in his pocket popped out onto the bed.
“Jump!”
Esta, holding Ark upside down by his feet, with his head dangling and legs up in the air, suddenly grabbed him.
“My carrot…”
Ark reached out for the carrot he hadn’t managed to grab, but Esta quickly leapt out the window and escaped.
“Wait!”
Stella, realizing too late, called out to the fleeing figures, but they were already gone.
“They’re really fast.”
Staring blankly out the open window, Stella sat down on the bed with a dazed expression.
Feeling something odd on her palm, Stella lifted her hand off the bed and discovered a carrot lying on the white bedspread.
She picked up the half-eaten carrot between her thumb and index finger, examining it closely. The tiny carrot, smaller than her little finger, was neatly bitten into a round bite mark.
Curiously, Stella lightly bit the end of the carrot. As the piece entered her mouth, an extraordinary sweetness, unlike any ordinary carrot, burst across her taste buds.
“Huh? What’s this?”
After a moment of hesitation, Stella popped the remaining piece into her mouth and chewed thoughtfully. The more she chewed, the richer the sweetness became. It was so delicious that she almost regretted swallowing it.
Disappointed that the carrot had vanished so quickly, Stella looked around for more but found nothing.
While searching under the covers, Stella suddenly stopped and laughed at herself.
“What am I even doing?”
She gave up on finding more carrots, but a question lingered in Stella’s mind.
Why could those kids talk so well?
Surely, there were similar creatures in Amalun.
Those who appeared when she was alone, smiling broadly and mimicking her words, laughing cheerily. But the ones she just saw were different.
Their appearance and fluent speech skills were more human-like. There was no instinctive repulsion that she usually felt towards such beings.
The way they stealthily approached and then suddenly ran away was also different. If they were the creatures from Amalun, they would never have run away.
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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