Leah had been bedridden for days with a high fever. The beautiful Grace, if she had a flaw, was that her body was extremely frail.
Throughout her illness, she remembered walking through the vast meadows.
After leaving the injured Terran in the shack, Leah went out, desperately searching for a village.
She needed to find a horse or write a letter to the Duke’s mansion – anything.
‘Why can’t I see the village?’
Endlessly wandering the meadows, walking and walking, but the village never appeared.
“Grace.”
Suddenly, an echo. Leah had naturally started responding to being called ‘Grace’.
‘Duke Kurtoa?’
Following his voice, Leah waved her hands. Then, someone grabbed her hand, making her open her eyes wide.
“Are you alright?”
It was no longer an echo. As her vision cleared, she saw Terran holding her hand.
“Duke Kurtoa!”
Leah sat up abruptly, seeing him sitting on her bed. For a while, they just held hands and looked at each other.
“I’m sorry… I tried to go to the village to get a horse… or at least write to the mansion. But it ended up like this.”
Leah rambled, still tangled in a half-dream, then burst into tears.
“It must have been so hard… I’m so useless.”
She covered her face with her hands, sobbing bitterly.
“Shh! Stop crying, Grace.”
Large hands gently stroked her head. Leah then realized it wasn’t a dream.
“We made it back safely.”
Leah looked up at Terran.
He was clean but had his right shoulder bandaged.
However, she couldn’t remember how they got back to the mansion.
“How…?”
“Grace went all the way to the village and got a horse.”
Did she? She couldn’t remember.
Terran couldn’t forget his bewilderment when he woke up in the shack.
Grace had wrapped him in a blanket and disappeared. He had feared she was kidnapped.
Rushing out after hastily dressing, he saw Grace far away, struggling uphill with a brown horse.
Time seemed to stop. Only his heart moved. The image was still vivid.
“Duke Kurtoa! I got a horse.”
The woman, red-eyed and wheezing with fever, was waving her hand, smiling brightly at him.
‘Was that an angel?’
He thought he only saw the messengers of hell. On the battlefield, whenever he was near death, he saw the dead beckoning from afar.
But for the first time, he saw an angel. The thrill he felt then was still present.
“Did I succeed?”
Was wandering the meadows just a dream?
Leah asked with wide eyes. Terran nodded.
“Thank goodness.”
Relieved, Leah smiled weakly and collapsed.
Terran’s call for a doctor and Polly’s crying echoed in Leah’s ears.
Terran, Luke, and James waited anxiously in the office for someone. But there was no news, adding to their frustration.
“The area is between Bern and Basel, with many forests where escaped slaves hide,” Luke informed, having reported the bandits to the Lubeck police.
“Whether slaves or bandits, they must be eradicated quickly. We almost had a disaster.”
Butler James passionately voiced his concerns. He criticized the decision to leave without guards in the first place and insisted that they should always be accompanied by guards in the future.
“Anyway, I was again surprised by Miss Grace. Do we only understand people after experiencing them?”
Luke shared with Terran what he had heard about Grace’s actions and was in disbelief.
“I should apologize for scolding her like a child.”
“And why isn’t Dr. Wilson here yet? I’ll go and check.”
As James was about to leave the office, there was a knock on the door, and it opened.
Dr. Wilson had returned after treating Grace, bringing a spark of interest in Terran’s eyes.
“How is Grace?”
“Pneumonia.”
Everyone looked at Wilson, startled, as his complexion was very pale.
“It’s due to her inherently weak constitution, overexertion, and getting drenched in the rain. Tonight seems critical.”
“Critical?”
Terran stood up abruptly, not knowing what to do, and ran his hands through his hair roughly. Luke and James were equally distressed.
“Save her by any means necessary, Wilson.”
“I’ll do my best, Your Grace.”
“Aidan, now Grace… What a disaster,” Luke muttered, looking lost.
It could become another unbearable burden for Terran.
James noticed Wilson seemed to have something to say, hesitating.
“Dr. Wilson, do you have something to add?”
“I’m not sure if I should say this, but there seems to be no other certain way.”
“What is it?”
Terran looked at Wilson sharply.
“Do you know ‘Rapha’? It’s a notorious organization in Levon City…”
“Aren’t they a violent gang?”
Luke asked incredulously.
Originally Gypsy, they now did any lucrative work.
“They have access to all kinds of medicines. Among them, a pneumonia medicine smuggled from the Eastern Continent.”
“Opium?”
Terran couldn’t hide his skepticism.
“No. It’s a traditional Eastern medicine, very effective for pneumonia.”
Terran stood up immediately. But getting the medicine wouldn’t be easy.
“Even the Emperor of Lubeck has to bow down to them for that medicine,” Wilson added.
“Disrespectful brat.”
Terran coldly responded.
“By when do we need it?”
Terran glanced at the clock.
“By five in the evening…”
“Get it.”
As Terran was about to leave, Luke blocked his way.
Going to Rapha with a gunshot wound on his shoulder was dangerous.
“They’re brutally ruthless,” Luke thought, knowing even the police avoided their territory.
“Luke, bring my sword.”
“Your Grace!”
Luke’s objection was met with Terran’s icy gaze.
“I meant I’ll go too.”
Luke relented, his confidence shaken.
‘Why is the Duke’s life so tumultuous?’
After the war, Terran’s life had been like a still lake, but everything changed when Grace turned into someone else. The most unbelievable part was Terran’s attitude towards Grace.
“We traveled together. Round and round.”
On the outskirts of Levon, in the Rapha district, Terran and his private soldiers were positioned.
Terran snorted at the sight of a grand building that was out of place in the slums.
“Luke, how’s the preparation?”
“All set. Just waiting for your signal.”
“Good.”
As Terran kicked open the door of the Rapha organization’s headquarters, the gang members, armed to the teeth, rushed towards him.
“I am Duke Terran Courtois. Bring your leader.”
Instead of reacting aggressively, the gang members stepped back, a first for them, as no noble had ever stormed in like this in broad daylight.
“You have 3 minutes. Bring me the leader.”
The gang members chuckled and mocked him.
“In 3 minutes, your heads will be rolling on this stone floor.”
Only then did the smirking men turn serious.
Suddenly, the crowd parted, and an old man with a cane emerged from between them.
“Oh, what brings the war hero of Lubeck to such a humble place? I am Rapha.”
Terran intuitively sensed that the unassuming old man with white hair, deep wrinkles, and a stooped back was the leader of Rapha. Despite his ordinary appearance, his eyes sparkled with vigor.
“You have an instant cure for pneumonia?”
“You’ve heard about the special potion?”
Rapha smiled confidently but scanned Terran thoroughly.
Rapha had met almost all powerful figures except the Emperor of Lubeck and the Courtois family. And now, he was meeting one of them.
‘This young man is exceptionally strong-willed.’
Rapha clicked his tongue.
“I need the medicine.”
“Ah, it’s not easy to give it away.”
“I’ll pay whatever you ask. If not, I can take your head or erase this place from the map of Levon City.”
Rapha laughed as if amused by Terran’s youthful bravado.
“Not the attitude of someone in need, eh?”
“Do I need to bow to get the medicine?”
“Would you?”
The tension between the two men escalated. Suddenly, Terran smirked coldly.
“!?”
Rapha shivered at Terran’s smile, feeling a threat he had never experienced before.
“One last time, will you give the medicine or not?”
“That’s… difficult.”
As Rapha hesitated, Terran immediately raised his left hand. Then a tremendous explosion sounded outside, shaking the ground and the building.
“Ahh!”
The gathered men screamed in shock.
“I warned you, I can erase this district from the map of Levon City.”
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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