“Your Majesty?”
As she was speaking, the merchant hesitated to add more from behind.
Hyacinth quickly spun around. However, due to his shock from when the statue had said ‘It’s me, Latil,’ his face was stiffer than before.
It was not a face intended to reprimand the merchant, but to the already nervous merchant, Hyacinth’s stern expression seemed to be reprimanding him.
This won’t do. It’s better to just be honest. Eventually, the merchant, feeling guilty and fearful of the future, decided this wasn’t right and decided to confess.
“In fact, Your Majesty. The statue I prepared is not that one. It seems that there was a misunderstanding in the process.”
“A misunderstanding?”
“Yes. I’ll bring the original one back, so please don’t be angry…”
However, before he could finish his words, Hyacinth cut him off.
“It’s fine. I like that one.”
“Excuse me?”
Really? That one? The merchant looked at the statue in surprise.
It was indeed a lively statue, but… No, didn’t the expression on that statue change slightly? Maybe it was because the emperor said ‘that statue seems to be moving.’ Even to the merchant, it seemed the statue’s expression had changed slightly.
“Your Majesty, that statue.”
Hyacinth quickly grabbed the merchant’s chin and turned him towards himself.
“Your Majesty…”
When the emperor forcefully grabbed his chin and forced eye contact, the merchant was startled as if his heart had dropped.
The emperor had a beautiful face like a dark forest elf, and his eyes were deep. A face that made the person meeting his gaze unable to think of anything.
“We’ll go with that one.”
When he softly commanded with such a face, the merchant nodded in surprise. Not just the merchant, but there would have been no one to refuse his words in front of the present Hyacinth.
When the merchant, half enchanted, accepted, Hyacinth released his chin and gave instructions to his attendant this time.
“I think having that statue in my room will help me focus. Let’s move it to the room.”
The attendant looked at him in surprise saying ‘that one?’, but Hyacinth, instead of answering, quickly covered the statue with a cloth and muttered.
“We can’t let it get dusty.”
‘Thank you, Hyacinth. I thought my jaw was going to drop.’
Latil sighed under the cloth.
‘At least it seems to have somehow passed. That’s a relief.’
[This is the time separator]While the servants carried the statue, or more accurately, the platform where Latil was standing, to Hyacinth’s office, Latil had to concentrate hard on her toes to keep from falling over.
Although the height was not high enough to hurt much if she fell, her body wouldn’t be hurt, but her pride would surely be shattered, so she did her best to keep her balance.
Fortunately, Latil did not fall until she was carried into the office. It was the result of a lifetime of hard training shining very brightly.
“Are statues always this heavy?”
“Isn’t it light for a statue?”
“I don’t know. It’s my first time carrying one. But it’s too heavy. My hands are trembling.”
“It’s made of stone, so it’s like that.”
When the servants grumbled and closed the office door and left, Latil carefully lifted the cloth that Hyacinth had covered and peeked outside.
People? None.
The door? It was properly closed.
‘Great. I can get out now.’
Even though she tried to find the most comfortable position, pretending to be a statue was more exhausting than running 50 laps around a training ground. Latil quickly pushed aside the stuffy cloth and sighed, crouching down and looking around the office.
‘He decorated his office just like him… but when is Hyacinth coming?’
She must have waited about 10 minutes like that. Finally, when the sound of the door opening was heard, Latil reflexively raised her head…
‘Who’s that?’
She was so surprised that she immediately resumed her statue impression. The person who came in was someone she didn’t know.
‘Looking at all the stuff he’s carrying, is he Hyacinth’s secretary?’
At first, the secretary focused on his work without paying attention to the statue, but eventually, unable to resist his curiosity, he approached Latil and clicked his tongue.
“My goodness. His Majesty told you to put this statue in his office?”
“…”
“Why did he put a squatting statue behind the desk? You can’t see anything but the statue’s head, right?”
As the secretary left, shaking his head, Latil let out a sigh and got up. But it was not even three minutes later that someone else opened the door and walked in. This time, it was a maid with cleaning tools in hand.
‘Damn it, Hyacinth!’
Did they have some discussion about the statue amongst themselves? The maid also kept glancing at Latil while cleaning the desk.
“It seems this is the statue Your Majesty fell for at first sight.”
The maid was so curious that she even leaned in close to get a good look at the statue, causing Latil to hold her breath.
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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