Unlike his brother, Lennon, with a sharp and intellectual demeanor, knelt first. Bonita observed him curiously, her eyes filled with interest.
“Hello, Bonita. I’m your uncle.”
“Uncle?”
Bonita had to ponder the meaning of that word. Having only her mother, the concept of family was very foreign to her.
Uncle. What did it mean? Recalling fairy tales Aria occasionally read to her, Bonita finally understood the term ‘uncle’ – a brother of one’s father or mother… probably?
Then it couldn’t be Luke’s brother. The two men didn’t resemble Luke or their grandmother, Catherine.
That left only one possibility.
“So, you’re my biological mother’s brother?”
“Right.”
A logical conclusion.
Bonita felt a sense of pride as she nodded at the man’s affirmation.
“To be honest, I was a bit surprised when I first saw you.”
“It seemed like it.”
Bonita recalled their expressions when she was with Aria.
Being adept at reading people’s emotions from wandering the backstreets, she easily noticed the Rothweil brothers’ openly emotional faces.
“Did you think I was dead?”
“Uh, how did you know—huh?”
“Brother!”
Lennon quickly covered his startled brother’s mouth. They couldn’t discuss stillbirths in front of a seven-year-old.
Or at any age, really.
Who would like to be openly treated as dead, even if it was a real past event? Such things should be avoided.
Lennon whispered to Dylan.
“Just keep your mouth shut, brother.”
Dylan nodded quickly.
He knew his brother was much wiser in these matters and usually yielded better results by leaving things to him.
“Um…”
Having silenced Dylan, Lennon cleared his throat. He thought carefully before speaking cautiously.
“So, before coming here, we were under a bit of a misunderstanding. We thought you were the daughter of some other woman, not the former duchess.”
“But that wasn’t the case.”
“Right.”
Lennon nodded so certainly that Bonita became a bit puzzled. She immediately asked about that part.
“Do I really resemble the duchess so much?”
“Yes, you do.”
Lennon spoke with absolute certainty.
“Anyone who knew Elodie even a little would recognize you immediately. You are Elodie’s daughter.”
This wasn’t exactly new to Bonita. Ever since she returned to the mansion, every servant had been repeating this like a parrot. Even her father, the duke!
By now, Bonita was genuinely curious about what her ‘biological mother’, the former duchess, looked like. She wondered if there might be a photograph of her somewhere, but she had yet to see her face.
“Anyway, we’re very happy to meet you. Can we ask how you’ve been before coming here?”
“Before?”
“Yes, um, before you came to the ducal residence.”
They had heard enough about her life after arriving at the mansion. They were curious about Bonita’s life before.
In truth, Lennon wanted to embrace the child and weep, but he tried to think rationally.
“I lived with Aria.”
“Aria as in Aria Hilton? The woman who sat next to you in the dining room?”
This time, Dylan couldn’t hold back and interjected, his tone impatient. Bonita, a bit bewildered, nevertheless answered earnestly.
“Yes. Aria took care of me.”
“Since when? Since when?”
“Since I was born.”
“Where?”
“We lived near Sangje Street. I’m not sure about the exact location. A little further away, there were many wealthy children, but our area wasn’t like that.”
“Did you know that woman wasn’t your real mother?”
There was a hint of negative emotion towards Aria in that question. Bonita, who had been eagerly answering, paused at this.
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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