Especially since even Regis, who was so ambitious, had failed and returned, Lise Marsen’s nerves had reached a breaking point.
“Regis Xavier, that useless man! Is he the reason for this mess?! He should have secured Odette one way or another!!”
If Regis had been in front of her, it wouldn’t have been strange for her to throttle him right then and there.
Blake looked disdainfully at his younger sister, who bore an uncanny resemblance to the Emperor, unlike himself.
“Didn’t I tell you? Don’t be so naive.”
“Are you mocking me now?!”
“Why? Weren’t you confident? You look pathetic now.”
Blake murmured as he passed by Lise Marsen.
He didn’t seem to care about the shattered glass on the floor.
Of course, this was all to provoke Lise Marsen.
“Didn’t you do well? You’re jealous because you lost your man.”
“……What?”
“Xavier, he failed because Duke Ertman helped Odette. She’s skillful, don’t know how she seduced the Duke.”
Odette’s words, slightly more provoking as told by Blake, came out.
Lise Marsen seemed to be greatly shocked by this unexpected information.
“What, what did you say? The Duke… helped Odette?”
“That’s what I said. Odette said it herself. Apparently, she even spent a night at Duke Ertman’s.”
Blake chuckled sinisterly.
“You’re completely done for, Lise. You lost.”
“……That’s impossible. There’s no way.”
Lise Marsen staggered back a step.
“Does this make sense? Me losing to Odette? Duke Ertman…”
He surely had feelings for me.
Lise Marsen wanted to complete her thought but couldn’t find the words.
Without realizing it, a question arose in her mind.
‘Did Duke Ertman really have feelings for me?’
If she revisited the actions Walter had shown, it was clearly so.
Duke Ertman did have feelings for me, Lise Marsen could affirmatively nod.
At least up to the tea party.
But now?
Unknowingly, as the seed of doubt sprouted, Blake’s cunning voice interjected.
“Even if Duke Ertman had feelings for you, people’s hearts change.”
“……!”
“Like someone having an affair, if there’s a reasonable opportunity, it’s even more so.”
In response to Blake’s words, several images clicked into place in Lizeina’s mind.
The abrupt change in Walter’s behavior after the tea party.
And since the tea party up to Xavier’s banquet, Walter had no external activities, the last person he met after the tea party was.
“Odette…!”
Odette, whom Walter had taken in his arms.
As her thoughts reached him, all of Lizeina’s questions were resolved.
“That wretched girl!”
She had meddled between herself and Walter, even seducing Walter!
And then she took her place!
Although in reality, it had never been Lizeina’s to begin with, in Lizeina’s mind Odette had already become the one who stole the meat offered to her lips.
And that was exactly as Blake had led her to think.
Looking closely, there was not a single lie among what Blake had said, but there is nothing that can incite people as much as the truth.
‘Odette, if you’re going to play dumb, there’s nothing I can do.’
Information was information, but she had developed a stubbornness to find out what exactly Odette was hiding.
In addition, she wanted to get back at Blake for having taken a useless trip because she conveniently left today.
Fortunately, Lizeina had followed along well as Blake had led.
‘It’s time to start wrapping this up.’
Blake walked over to Lizeina, who was tearing her hair out, and gently comforted her like a caring older brother.
“Now, calm down, my sister.”
“Take your hand off! Do I look like I’m calming down?”
“What can you do if you don’t calm down?”
A chill flashed in Blake’s eyes, causing Lizeina to involuntarily shrink back.
Blake gazed intently at her face, which resembled the Emperor’s quite a bit, and soon smirked.
“Don’t be too surprised, okay? Anyone would think we have bad blood between us.”
“No, why would they?”
“Right? Anyway, the situation isn’t that bad, so don’t despair, Lizeina.”
Blake patted Lizeina’s shoulders.
Then, a glimmer of hope appeared on Lizeina’s face.
“The situation… isn’t bad?”
“Exactly. Society is currently distracted with other names, so it’s a good time to pull away from Duke Ertman, isn’t it?”
Everyone’s attention is diverted because of Regis’s stories, too.
As for Walter, even Elodie is involved, so it would look natural to back off while appearing exhausted from the rumors.
“But that would mean I’m actually losing to Odette. I don’t want that!”
“Public opinion isn’t everything. The real loser is somewhere else, isn’t it?”
“…The real loser?”
“Regis Xavier.”
The one who would be grinding his teeth at Walter and Odette right about now.
“Use him. There’s likely no one as indiscriminate as he is, like a man possessed by evil.”
Make Odette deeply regret it.
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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