While Serena was lost in thought, Anna was doing her hair, a task she claimed as her own. All it ever amounted to was tying it up high and pinning it as Serena wanted.
“Yes, I think so too. We cannot proceed with other matters until we’re sure the outsider has left.”
Peter’s words were correct, but to Serena, who passionately worked day and night for Astel’s growth, they were harsh.
“Hmph, all we need to do is drive him out as quickly as possible.”
Everyone nodded in agreement with the right words.
“By the way, My Lady, the overnight guest wishes to meet you today.”
Annoyed, Serena raised a fine eyebrow at the news.
“I thought if he was a spy, he would have acted suspiciously overnight… Are you sure nothing happened?”
If there had been any suspicious activity, she could have easily expelled him, and later, whatever his identity turned out to be, she wouldn’t be blamed.
“I had someone secretly watch him all night, but there were no suspicious circumstances. He didn’t even send out a messenger bird.”
“Tch.”
What Peter spoke of was the surveillance system created by Serena. It didn’t merely involve guarding outsiders but also included monitoring any likely actions in advance. Naturally, the movement of messenger birds was part of it.
How many heroes in the novels she read in her past life faced crises due to messenger birds? Now that she had become Serena, she had to thoroughly utilize her past memories.
“I was ready to kick him out if he showed any suspicious movement.”
In the past, the Grand Duke of Parel, neighboring Astel, had sent countless messenger birds in anger when Serena denied him access.
Of course, those birds were now caged, plump and wellfed, raising excellent offspring. Serena’s belief was to utilize whatever could be utilized, regardless of her anger.
“Could it be a new annoyance from the Grand Duke of Parel?”
“It doesn’t seem to be related to the Grand Duchy of Parel. He had the imperial transit pass to begin with.”
“Ah, right.”
Serena belatedly recalled an important fact. An imperial transit pass was bestowed directly by the Emperor, so the Grand Duke couldn’t have possessed one.
“I implore Your Highness, perhaps… it’s not related to the Crown Prince, is it?”
Peter’s words prompted Serena to make a baffled face and snort a derisive laugh.
“He and I are worse than strangers. Don’t you see that after the last six years? Besides, why would the Crown Prince pretend to be a wandering knight?”
This time, even Peter seemed to agree. Regrettably, as Serena said, there had been no events between them in the six years since their engagement ceremony. No meetings, not even a single letter.
“It’s a bother, so let’s deal with it quickly. I’ll meet him in the reception room on the first floor. Make it thirty minutes before lunchtime. I don’t want to see him for long.”
“Yes, I will inform him.”
“By the way, did you notice the color of his hair or any features?”
This was another thought that had occurred to her last night. There were quite a few cases where a person’s appearance could be traced to a prominent family.
“No, it was dark, and he was wearing a hood, so I couldn’t see.”
“Alright, I understand.”
In any case, she would naturally find out who the person was in a short while. And for now, the priority was to quickly expel the suspicious guest and return to the domain’s affairs.
(This is a time separator.)
As the servant brought up a simple breakfast and withdrew, Lucas’s face twisted into another dissatisfied expression. Having skipped his daily routine of rising at dawn to swing his sword, his body seemed somewhat restless.
But swinging his sword from early morning at the ducal residence would surely give him a headache.
“What audacity. To dare set the opportunity to meet me at her own convenience.”
Cedric looked blankly at the Crown Prince, having nothing more to say. Indeed, who had told him to conceal his noble and exalted identity?
“Let’s begin with breakfast.”
As the servant placed the tray on the table, a delicious aroma wafted through the air. The menu itself was common, consisting of eggs and bacon, but the quality was evidently exceptional.
“It seems there really is something about Astel.”
Cedric commented, looking at the plump egg yolks.
“This is something you’d only see in the imperial palace.”
Hearing this, Lucas also glanced at his plate. Not only were the eggs outstanding, but the bacon was also on par with what one might find at a metropolitan noble’s feast.
“Yes.”
Now Lucas began to seriously wonder about the secrets of the Astel domain.
“There’s something about Astel.”
During his long wanderings, Lucas had seen more fertile and broader domains. However, the impression of abundance they provided was utterly different from Astel.
“If that special something turns out to be my fiancée, it couldn’t be better.”
A subtle strength appeared in his manly, strong jaw and lips. At the same time, a strange emotion blossomed in his deep and beautiful black eyes.
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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