The stories where a ragged beggar turns out to be a nobleman, who falls in love with the female protagonist who treats him without prejudice.
“Besides, my maid said he seemed more genteel than expected from a distance!”
The king’s expression darkened further.
Absorbed in her speech, the princess didn’t notice his signals and sighed deeply.
“I know. The barbarians of the desert chew poisonous scorpions raw and slit camel throats to drink their blood.”
The princess shuddered in disgust, then shook her head and spoke earnestly.
“But still, he’s the son of an emperor. Like me.”
She pointed to herself with her index finger, her chest slightly puffed out.
“Even if he’s from the empire, wouldn’t he be different from ordinary barbarians?”
Looking at her innocently blinking eyes, the king’s forehead tensed.
Barely containing his anger, he asked quietly.
“What are you trying to say?”
It was her last chance. The clueless Princess Lalahtu was so engrossed in convincing the king that her eyes sparkled.
“I think instead of refusing to meet him outright, I should see him at least once and make my own judgment…”
Bang!
“Aaah!”
Startled by the loud noise, Princess Lalahtu flinched.
The king stood up abruptly.
“Just listening to you, it seems there’s nothing you wouldn’t say! Are you saying you want to become friendly with him?”
“Ah, Father…….”
“Do you even know who is interested in you? What? You want to catch the prince’s eye? You want to leave your father’s side and live in the desert?”
“No, that’s not it!”
The princess vehemently denied, shaking her head. The king’s expression softened slightly and then hardened again.
“Even if you dislike him, if the prince takes a liking to you, we cannot refuse. And even if we do, they are barbarians. Civilized conversation is impossible.”
“But even so, what can they do?”
“That’s why you know nothing.”
The king sighed in frustration.
“What if that barbarian kidnaps you in the night and runs off to the empire? Which knight of our kingdom could infiltrate the empire to rescue you? Sir Reynold? Or Sir Hazard? Who, exactly?”
The princess paled at the mention of kidnapping.
The king, feeling sorry for his naive and foolish daughter, gently admonished her.
“Lalahtu, I am deeply worried about you. You just need to listen to me. Your future husband will be a nobleman from our kingdom, promising and kind-hearted. I promise you that.”
At those words, Princess Lalahtu’s face darkened significantly.
A promising and kind-hearted young man. It sounds nice to hear.
‘But that’s so boring!’
Just as the princess was absorbed in her own words and paid no heed to her father’s face, the king did the same.
Regardless of her reaction, he was immersed in his own thoughts and looked satisfied.
As if he liked the future he had just described.
Yet, he did not hesitate to show his disdain for the empire.
“It’s unacceptable. To a barbarian, of all people.”
Barbarian!
He spat the word out.
No matter how far back in history one looks, the empire and the kingdom have never been on good terms.
The king remembered all the times the empire had tormented the kingdom.
“Conscienceless people.”
The king spoke firmly.
“The blood of our Liorsan royal family must not mix with the blood of the desert. It would be an unspeakable disaster.”
“…….”
“Don’t ever speak of such things again.”
“Yes…”
Princess Lalahtu quietly responded but puckered her lips when her father wasn’t looking.
“Tsk.”
Thinking he had made his point clear, the king missed her expression.
The curious glint in the princess’s mischievous eyes.
‘The more you tell me not to do something, the more I want to do it.’
It could have been just simple defiance. But the princess, who had grown up sheltered under her father’s protection, was curious.
About the cruel and fearsome prince from the hot, dry desert.
As if opposites attract, or it was almost like fate.
‘What kind of person is he?’
She believed in the romantic love she read about in novels and felt a light flutter of excitement.
The carriage ride towards the palace was filled with uncomfortable silence.
Sarak.
Quietly, a page of the book was turned.
I was only looking at the letters filling the paper.
‘Typical Dufeng.’
Dufeng, a theologian and novelist, is popular among the nobility for his scholarly style.
But what made him famous was the intriguing worldview presented in his novels.
Dufeng’s works share a common universe, with a central theme:
In the beginning, the world was one.
Water and fire lived in harmony with humans. What seemed like an eternally peaceful world was divided after fire killed water.
In the divided world, wars started to claim each other’s territories.
This book narrated the efforts to rectify the chaotic world.
‘There were rumors that Dufeng’s novels took inspiration from the relationship between the kingdom and the empire.’
If true, then the water god in the novels was likely created with Martha in mind.
Intrigued, I was about to turn the next page when…
“Is it interesting?”
Looking up, Aris was watching me. Her lips were slightly pouted, full of dissatisfaction.
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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