As Leah descended the stairs, she asked Polly.
“It seems so?”
Polly responded oddly.
“No, I mean… never mind.”
Leah thought better of revealing the conversation she had overheard from Doctor Wilson.
What a humiliation it would be for Terrun if he knew. But Terrun’s gaze and warmth were undoubtedly those of a normal man.
‘I can’t even confirm with Doctor Wilson.’
Leah dismissed the thought as useless and shook her head.
Soon, she arrived at the living room. She felt apprehensive about facing Terrun after days of avoidance.
“I’m here.”
As Leah spoke softly, Terrun and Luke looked at her. However, instead of tea cups, there were piles of letters on the table.
“Everyone but Grace, leave.”
Terrun’s stern voice made Leah nervous. Had he been angry because she avoided him during meals, walks, and tea times?
“Come and sit.”
Once Luke and Polly left, Terrun spoke to Grace.
“Are you still angry?”
“Yes.”
Leah answered honestly.
“I didn’t wear Chainer’s dress to look like a prostitute to men. I had a plan.”
“Who called Grace a prostitute?”
“They said I looked like a prostitute, a hysteric, vulgar, and deliberately trying to lure men.”
“Mad…!”
“Weren’t you thinking the same? You said you wanted to tear off my dress because you were embarrassed by it.”
“What?”
Terrun’s face contorted hopelessly. It seemed Grace was a bit slow to understand.
He had shown animalistic desire in front of her, but somehow she interpreted it differently. No, he needed to confirm.
“Besides being a fiancé, what am I to Grace?”
“Family?”
He looked incredulous and was silent for a while.
At the very least, I was expecting a response like ‘a man’.
‘Family’? That term implies a kind of weariness that comes with over 20 years of marriage, and it seems she doesn’t even realize that.
“Ask me the same question.”
“What am I to you, Terrun? Apart from being your fiancée.”
“You are my woman.”
Leah’s heart raced again.
Suddenly, Terrun seemed to radiate light, appearing incredibly handsome. He seemed like the ultimate man, making it unbelievable that he was actually impotent.
In that moment, she felt resentful towards fate. What had it done to this perfect man?
“I’ll ask again.”
Terrun pressed on relentlessly, determined to hear the words he wanted from Grace.
“What am I to you, besides family?”
Leah hesitated. Now that she knew what he wanted to hear, she found it even harder to speak.
She wished for a mouse hole to escape into, but facing his black eyes that seemed ready to burn her, she couldn’t delay any longer.
“My fiancé… No, my man?”
Finally, a broad smile spread across Terrun’s face.
“You misunderstood what I said about tearing your dress.”
“But you did want to tear it, right?”
“Yes, I did. I said that because it was dreadful for me to see other men looking at my woman’s smooth, bare skin.”
“!?”
“Next time, wear it only in front of me. In fact, I prefer it. Easier to take off.”
‘An impotent man talking big.’
Soon, Terrun gestured for Leah to come sit beside him.
“There is no creature as hypocritical as a human.”
“What?”
“Those letters are the proof. Take a look.”
Terrun pointed to the pile of letters, and Leah began to read them one by one. Her eyes widened in shock.
“See? Wasn’t I right?”
“I heard it with my own ears. They said I looked like a prostitute.”
Leah burst into tears.
The letters from the noblewomen who had slandered her contained praise for her lace dress at the party and requests for the dressmaker’s details, regardless of the cost.
Overwhelmed, Leah threw her arms around Terrun’s neck, crying.
Startled by her own reaction, she tried to pull away, but Terrun caught her wrist.
“It’s too early to cry.”
“What else is there?”
Leah looked at him with tearful eyes.
But Terrun’s body reacted strangely. Previously, he found Grace’s tears merely pretty, but now he felt a sudden surge of desire.
The thought of wanting to hold a crying woman was surely a sign of illness.
‘That’s perverted, getting excited by tears.’
But he couldn’t consider himself normal either.
Terrun handed her another letter.
“It’s from the Empress.”
“Really?”
Leah unfolded the Empress’s letter with trembling hands.
“My goodness! The Empress herself wants to order one too.”
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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