Lucius and Charlotte began a hushed, serious conversation.
“We can’t avoid it, but she might be too shocked…”
“However, it’s unavoidable…”
Annette, trying to be polite, turned away and tried not to listen, but she couldn’t help but be drawn to the conversation and the frequent glances from the Emperor and Empress.
Eventually, Charlotte spoke carefully, as if broaching a difficult topic.
“Heyworth Knight, it seems we must visit the Empress Dowager this afternoon.”
“Me? But in my current state…”
“She already knows, so there’s no need to worry about that.”
Though somewhat expecting it, Annette felt her heart sink.
The ease with which the Emperor and Empress accepted her condition now concerned her.
How would the highest authority in the palace, the Empress Dowager, react?
The whispered conversation between Lucius and Charlotte added to her anxiety.
‘Maybe they’ll want to change the bride at this point.’
Annette sighed inwardly, recalling Bridget’s childish reluctance to marry.
However, she steeled her resolve.
There were future concerns, but she had to deal with the immediate situation first.
“Are you that worried?”
“Yes?”
“You seem very tense.”
Acknowledging Charlotte’s observation, Annette nodded.
Honestly, she couldn’t recall a time when she felt more anxious.
‘Even my first monster subjugation was less nerve-wracking.’
Before visiting the Empress Dowager’s palace, Annette completed the purification with the stone and, with the maids’ help, dressed again. Her mind was noisy with worries.
What if her body never returned to normal, and Bridget remained stubborn? What if this caused problems with the alliance?
Annette’s anxiety was evident, which the maid who had trimmed her hair in the morning noticed. The maid tried to cheer her up by commenting that her hair seemed to have grown a bit longer. However, Annette, though grateful for the maid’s kindness, didn’t really feel any different.
“Ah…”
Watching Annette sigh deeply, Charlotte chuckled briefly.
“The Empress Dowager is a kind person. Despite appearances, she’s quite tender-hearted. It’s just that…”
Just that what…?
Annette looked anxiously at Charlotte, who trailed off.
“Anyway, you don’t need to worry too much. Of course, meeting your future mother-in-law for the first time won’t be easy, but…”
“Mother-in-law?”
At that moment, Annette’s eyes widened in realization.
Mother-in-law? Really, mother-in-law?
Until now, she had only been preoccupied with the fear of the alliance breaking. She came to greet the Empress Dowager of the Alkan Empire without fully grasping the situation.
But hearing Charlotte’s words, it dawned on Annette that she was actually meeting the mother of her future husband for the first time.
Her hair stood on end, and her mind became even more muddled with tension than before.
“The Empress Dowager summons you.”
The doors to the Empress Dowager’s receiving room swung open.
Her heart pounded wildly.
She had come to the empire for a marriage of convenience, and only now realized the Empress Dowager would soon be her mother-in-law!
Unable to calm her nerves, Annette entered the receiving room, determined not to make any mistakes this time. She had rehearsed several times in her head, stepping back with her left foot and lightly lifting the hem of her dress to curtsy.
In a manner befitting a princess…
…and a prospective daughter-in-law.
“Annette, Princess of Heyworth, greets the Empress Dowager of the Alkan Empire.”
Her relief at completing the greeting without major mistakes was short-lived as she became alarmed by the eerie silence in the room. Unable to lift her head, she endured the heavy silence, her gaze cast downward.
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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