“After dinner, Lady Isabel moved all the books to her room, saying that she would check them herself.”
“Isabel herself?”
“Yes. Since the higherups of Carcus are staying in the mansion, Lady Isabel knows that neither Lady Sophia nor the butler can refuse her request.”
“So she’s checking the books now?”
“Yes. People from the upper ranks are coming and going in Lady Isabel’s room, and all the attention of Lady Sophia and the butler is focused there.”
Isabel’s change was surprising. Just as Edith was vaguely curious about the reason, a small dove tapped her window with its beak.
‘A dove sent by Isabel?’
Edith opened the window and took a small note tied to the dove’s leg and unfolded it.
[Thank you, Edith. Thanks to your encouragement, I was able to sing in front of the people at dinner.]‘Isabel sang after I left the dinner because of Sophia’s hostility.’
She had hesitated and thought she might miss the opportunity. Edith read the rest of the note with a smile.
[And I was able to make a decision by seeing people focusing on my song. If the heir passes away like this, and if I have to leave the mansion, I want to go to the capital to become a singer.For that, I must take care of my share myself, right?]
Edith read the note again, doubting her eyes, and in the meantime, the dove flew back to its owner.
Of course, it was Edith’s intention to encourage Isabel to sing.
Objectively, Isabel’s voice was more beautiful than anyone else’s she had ever heard, and she was confident that anyone would be enchanted by her singing.
‘So if I just gave her the opportunity to sing in front of people, Isabel would naturally receive praise, and feeling good, I planned to ask her to look at the rumored accounting books.’
Isabel had confirmed the embezzlement rumor herself before she could even ask, assured of her possibility by singing at dinner.
She thought she was a naive young lady, but considering the precautions she took against leaving, she seemed truly a daughter of the upper class.
‘Isabel’s will is will, but… If the owner of the Carcus upper class heard about the state of Count Portrion, they must have actively encouraged Isabel to examine the books.’
[Thank you, Edith.]Isabel began her note with thanks, but Edith thought she should be more thankful.
“Then I might as well bury myself in the books on the shelf.”
Edith got up from her seat. Last night, after witnessing the conversation between Walter and Helen, she wanted to verify what she had thought through books.
‘If Helen has Portrion bloodline, and even if Nicholas dies, in a situation where Sophia is still strong, there will be many difficulties.’
Thankfully, Isabel had loudly exposed the embezzlement case, so there might be apprehensions that Portrion’s finances might not be sound.
If she attacked Sophia in that gap, this damned pregnancy scheme would fizzle out.
Edith moved her steps with a desperate heart. Her room was in the east wing of the mansion, and the library was located in the central part, almost cutting across half of the mansion.
But Edith changed her mind after taking only a few steps.
‘I need to go outside the building and go around.’
Most of the people invited to the Thanksgiving dinner were staying in the mansion. Naturally, they couldn’t take their eyes off the fourth wife, who had been obsessed to the end.
Was there a reason to cross half of the mansion while receiving their piercing gazes, especially when the weather outside was good?
Edith walked with the mindset of taking a light stroll. Just for a moment.
‘Who is it?’
She felt someone looking at her from behind. Edith pretended to continue on her way, glancing at the reflection in the window glass.
Her eyes widened as she recognized the man’s face. Surprisingly, it was a face she knew.
Curly brownishgray hair and warm brown eyes. Clean skin that didn’t tan easily and glasses he always wore.
‘Benjamin? How did you get here…’
Benjamin Homan.
A distant relative of the director of the Homan clinic where Edith worked, he was one of the people who had become her friend after Isaac had left.
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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