If it’s not agreeable, then marry someone else.
However, ‘Louis’s marriage’ had to be ensured.
“Find out his preferences and matchmake, or else promote a lady he favors. That’s your job.”
As long as Louis Clovis announces a marriage, it’s fine.
The deadline is the end of this social season.
“If you manage this, your social activities will be unproblematic. Will you do it?”
Although the explanation was clear, Elodie who heard the command seemed somewhat confused.
“What, what if I fail?”
“Well.”
The tips of Walter’s boots tapped the floor a couple of times.
Thud. Thud.
“It wouldn’t be bad to experience firsthand what awaits you.”
It was an overt threat.
If she failed, she’d have to pay with her life or something equivalent.
“Then, why…… why go to such lengths? Who is he…… After all, Your Highness is going to marry the 4th princess! Then Viscount Clovis can’t do anything……”
“Marriage is a loose institution. Too many loopholes to securely tie someone down.”
Muttering almost to himself, Walter’s eyes turned to his own hand.
A hand that was thick at the joints but sleek due to its elongated shape.
The hand, wrapped in a black glove, slowly curled from the outside in.
Each joint folded, and the scene finally closed tightly. The motion looked more like a complex clockwork mechanism than a human hand moving.
“And sadly, I have no intention of leaving even a sliver of a chance.”
Elodie snapped back to reality a beat later after hearing the voice that followed.
Perhaps she could turn this revelation against Walter, hope surged within her.
“Then, does the 4th princess know this? That you, beneath the surface, do such things……”
“You ask quite promptly. You could’ve asked much earlier, you know.”
Referring to when Elodie first set foot in Ertman and was offered a deal by Walter.
It was blatant mockery, but there was no time to blush.
“If you think threatening me with this will do any good, I’d recommend you not bother. Telling the 4th princess would make little difference.”
Odette figured they would dislike her regardless of what was said.
Unspoken curses came to mind with that intrusive thought, but neither Walter nor Elodie voiced them aloud.
There was no need to provide information to Elodie unnecessarily.
However, to the unknowing Elodie, everything seemed chaotic.
“That can’t be… She seemed so clueless…”
“If you’re so curious, go ahead and gossip.”
It was uncertain whether this curiosity was worth exchanging with life itself.
With that, their ‘deal’ came to an end.
Realizing that no negotiation would work on Elodie, Walter fully surrendered, thanks to her.
“I’ll do it, but you must keep your promise.”
However, in Elodie’s eyes, as she spoke with apparent resignation, a fierce ambition was boiling.
Perhaps in her mind, she envisioned herself enduring this humiliation and using Walter’s support as a stepping stone to rise once again in the social world.
‘It’s all up to her.’
Walter kept his promise.
Elodie was allowed to use a mansion in the suburbs and swiftly returned to society.
She seemed to be skillfully building her reputation by navigating through areas unaffected by the likes of Duchess Grimouard or Liza.
However, she was no longer afforded the same treatment she had under the halo of Duke Ertman.
There was no magnificent salon like Duchess Grimouard’s either.
So if she wanted to realize her ambitions, she would have to move even more fiercely than before…
‘…She was chosen for her greed, so she will surely act.’
Walter put aside his thoughts on Elodie.
That aspect was already smoothly rolling within his grasp.
If it weren’t for the sudden appearance of his grandfather and the interference of Cedric, it would have been even smoother.
Walter sighed and said,
“Keeping Elodie Montuor is only out of necessity. There is no personal connection, so don’t worry. Initially, you pushed for the marriage, so why this pointless crackdown now?”
“Pointless? Is that something you say to your elder? I’m worried you’ll meet other women behind her back while planning to marry the 4th princess.”
“Do I look like someone who would do such a thing?”
“How would I know what’s inside your head? You’re always so eloquent.”
This time, Walter looked a bit incredulous, but it was nothing compared to Arnolt’s rising temper.
“I told you to marry, not to take a precious young lady and turn her into a bird in your cage!”
“A cage, isn’t that fine? It’s safe, and no one else can touch her.”
Seeing his composed grandson, Arnolt grabbed the back of his neck.
‘Damned maturity…’
Walter, this guy, had gone completely insane.
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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