While weighing my options, Lirien immediately nodded in agreement.
“Yes, yes! Actually, telling my brother about it is a bit…”
Indeed, she must have been worried that I would resentfully disclose the matter to someone else.
Feeling relieved that our interests aligned, I looked around the bedroom.
My gaze finally settled on the inviting bed. Perhaps it was the release of tension, but the fatigue accumulated since morning suddenly overwhelmed me.
I turned to Lirien with a weary expression.
“Lady Lirien, I’m sorry, but I would like to rest now.”
“Oh, my mind! You must be tired, and I’ve been keeping you up! I’ll instruct the maids to attend to your needs, so please feel free to call on them.”
“Thank you.”
I watched the door until Lirien had completely disappeared, then I rang the servant bell beside the bed.
The maids, arriving much faster than those at the Buell Count’s mansion, attended to me diligently.
Chattering to keep me entertained during my bath, and ensuring I had fresh, seasonal fruits, they made sure I wasn’t bored or hungry.
Sitting in the bathtub, enjoying a lethargic massage, I thought to myself that this was the best service I had ever experienced.
‘I must be treated well because I am Lirien’s first guest. I’m being pampered.’
After sipping steaming chamomile tea and diving into bed, I burst into a contented smile.
“Ah, I can live like this.”
I snuggled into the rustling blankets, rubbing my face contentedly, then squinted my eyes.
‘Should I stay a few more days before her brother’s return?’
The luxurious treatment made it hard to leave, and not just for me, a slave to capital.
‘…No, let’s not entertain such thoughts.’
Once the household goods arrive tomorrow, I’ll sell them to a peddler to gather funds and rely on my uncle while preparing for the divorce.
Carefully revisiting my plan, I blew out the scented candle and rolled over.
The day’s events had been incredibly exhausting. My muscles, which felt like melting chocolate, were soon engulfed in a wave of sleep. Yet, as I reviewed the day’s events, my mind became active, making it hard to fall asleep. Just as I was about to succumb to sleep,
“Who are you?”
A cold blade pressed against my slender neck.
I snapped my eyes open. My heart began to thump wildly as I saw the blade extending from the darkness to my neck.
My previously relaxed cells were now alert, sensing danger.
Through my narrowed eyes, I saw a shadow flickering in the darkness.
‘A burglar? An assassin? No, if either were true, they wouldn’t ask who I am.’
Trying to maintain composure, I spoke up.
“And who might you be?”
Instead of answering, the figure stepped into the light of the night lamp.
“…”
For a moment, I wondered if I was dreaming.
Golden eyes tinged with a reddish hue, a smoothly sculpted nose, and elegantly pursed lips graced the handsome man’s face. His silver hair, reaching his shoulders, looked untamed yet added to his wild aura.
Briefly lost in his features, I quickly remembered the precarious situation.
‘Why is this man, who’s supposed to return in 5 days, here now?’
Unless he had suddenly developed dementia, this man in front of me was undoubtedly the Duke Mipidian, who had killed me in the original story.
Flash! Suddenly, a bright light struck.
Startled by the intimidating sound, I caught the man’s fierce golden eyes in the flickering light.
He looked ready to kill. Instinctively, I felt a chill down my spine.
Even then, his piercing gaze remained relentlessly fixed on me.
“Answer me again. Who are you?”
His deep voice asked again.
“That is… well…”
As I scrambled for a way to survive, the door cautiously opened, and Lirien entered, holding a soft lantern.
“Countess Buell, are you asleep? I woke up because of the thunder, and you are… Ah, Edmond, what are you doing!”
“…Sister.”
It was then that I realized, with relief akin to a miracle, that I had escaped the crisis due to the man’s diverted attention.
After the early morning incident, I tidied up and changed clothes as dawn broke.
Stepping down to the reception room, I momentarily hid behind the door.
“What if the Countess Buell gets angry and decides to leave immediately…”
Lirien was nervously pacing around a chair, nibbling on her nails.
Edmond, who had been sitting quietly with his eyes downcast, frowned slightly at her restless movement.
“Sister, please sit down. You’re making me nervous.”
Glancing briefly at Edmond, Lirien dejectedly took a seat beside him.
“Alright…”
‘I guess Edmond isn’t particularly warm-hearted towards Lirien either.’
Peeking through the door, I decided not to keep them waiting any longer and took a deep breath before entering the room.
“Have you been waiting?”
“Oh, you’re here?”
Lirien stood up to greet me.
“Please, sit down, Lady Lirien.”
I ordered jasmine tea from the standing maid and sat opposite Lirien.
Even after the tea was served, the room remained enveloped in silence.
It was the overly timid Lirien who broke the silence first.
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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