Unable to resist the title Oliver insisted on, Bonita thanked him, and he smiled while patting her head.
‘Why does it feel so unpleasant?’
No matter how much she thought about it, he had never done anything wrong to her. Still, for some reason, whenever she faced him, she couldn’t shake off the feeling of meeting a sworn enemy.
However, the uncomfortable feeling didn’t last long. Thanks to the chef of the marquis bringing a 7-tier cake just the height of Bonita, her attention was entirely focused there.
Aria put a light yellow hat on Bonita’s head.
Looking even more adorable, Bonita swayed to Luke.
“Before you blow out the candles, you make a wish, Bonita.”
Hearing her dad’s words, Bonita closed her eyes tightly and folded her hands. Then, with a serious expression, she prayed.
‘Please let me continue to be happy like today in the future!’
Soon after, Bonita blew out the candles. Seeing the candles extinguished at once, Luke commented.
“They say if the candles go out all at once, your wish comes true. That would be nice.”
“Really?”
“…Maybe.”
Bonita finally burst into laughter at Luke’s unconfident attitude.
“Did you enjoy the party?”
“Very much.”
As it got late and the kids left, Bonita, tired from playing all day, yawned.
Since Aria found it cute when her small mouth opened, she almost unintentionally tried to suck Bonita in.
“Hahaha!”
Instead, when Aria kissed her cheek a few times, Bonita giggled, saying it tickled. Aria casually swept away her daughter’s mischief.
Barely calming herself, the genuine Bonita spoke with a solemn tone.
“I lived without knowing about such happiness for seven years. It feels like I’ve missed out on a lot.”
Upon hearing her words, Aria’s hand twitched. Although Bonita’s words might have been spoken without much thought due to her sleepy state, it was all the more a profound sentiment.
With a trembling voice, Bonita continued affectionately.
“But from now on, I won’t experience any more losses. There will be much more fun days than today.”
“That’s right…”
Once again yawning, Bonita hugged Aria and murmured.
“Now that Mom is really by my side.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“And Dad, Grandma, and Uncles too…”
“Your words are right, Bonita.”
With Bonita in her arms, Aria patted her knees. Nestled in her embrace, Bonita began to doze off.
“Do you want to go to your room?”
“…What time is it now?”
“About ten o’clock.”
“The day hasn’t fully passed yet.”
Bonita struggled to lift her heavy eyelids.
“It’s too regrettable to spend the rest of my birthday like this.”
Suppressing her yawns, Aria, with a compassionate smile, said.
“Then let’s go to the bedroom. Mom will read you a story until you fall asleep.”
“Is that also Mom’s lifelong wish?”
It was a phrase she hadn’t heard in a long time.
Every time Aria bathed Bonita, fed her, and did various other things when they first met, she would bring up these words.
With a gentle smile, Aria tapped Bonita’s nose gently.
“Yes, it’s a lifelong wish.”
“Then… okay.”
Aria carried Bonita to the bedroom, took out a fairy tale book placed there, and said, “I will read it to you until you fall asleep.” The book had a title: “My Rain,” a very famous fairy tale.
“Once upon a time, in a certain kingdom, there lived two sisters named Rain and Jay, daughters of a duke…”
However, the moment Bonita fell asleep as soon as she read the first sentence, Aria didn’t get a chance to read the entire fairy tale.
After carefully covering Bonita’s belly with a blanket and gently kissing her forehead, Aria quietly slipped out of the bedroom.
“Did Bonita fall asleep?”
Aria wasn’t surprised at the sudden question. She knew he had been waiting outside with his fists clenched.
“Looks like she’s very tired. I told her I would read her a story, but she fell asleep before even finishing a sentence.”
“Well, she must have had a lot of fun playing.”
Luke’s warm eyes, thinking of Bonita, were tinged with red. However, the affectionate gaze turned emotionless when it shifted toward Aria.
She focused on not showing any hesitation in that gap. She knew it would only raise more suspicions if she did.
Aria cautiously asked, “Do you have something to say?”
There was a moment of silence.
Just when she began to sense Luke’s restlessness due to his silence, an unexpected question popped out of his mouth.
“Do you like alcohol?”
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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