Upon hearing this, Arianthe shrugged her shoulders. For a moment, she displayed such an elegant and aristocratic movement that one could almost forget her age. Of course, only in terms of being whimsical.
“Sailerus is nice, right?”
Arianthe seemed to want to insist a bit more, tightly pursing her lips, but soon nodded. Sailerus was undoubtedly nice. When she told the story of being hit by Professor Bimon, he had shown genuine concern for her, and he never treated Mayana like “just a maid.”
Mayana continued speaking.
“But when Sailerus is angry, he can sometimes do naughty things too. Everyone can be like that. So, that young man who fought with Lady earlier, maybe he has a kind side too.”
“No! He’s not kind at all. He’s as bad as a demon!”
“If he does something naughty again next time, then you can say that.”
Mayana joked, causing Arianthe’s lips to pout mischievously. This clever little lady had already figured it out.
Mayana was clearly taking her side, but at the same time, she was also taking the side of that naughty fellow named Rugian.
Arianthe pushed Mayana away as if sulking but quickly adopted a somber expression again.
“Is Father very angry?”
“He probably isn’t.”
“But he told me to stay inside the house for a whole week. I don’t want to do that.”
Mayana replied, “Show a quiet demeanor for a day or two. Then, the Duke will probably not be able to resist forgiving Lady. However, throwing objects every time you’re angry is a bad habit. I won’t mention the shoe incident to the Duke. If you promise not to do it again, I won’t either.”
Arianthe, shocked by the word “a week,” stared at Mayana with her mouth wide open.
“What should I do when I’m angry then?”
“Even if you’re angry, you shouldn’t throw things, Lady. Someone might get hurt, or you could throw something important and regret it later.”
“But what if I throw something that won’t hurt anyone? Like a doll.”
Mayana said, “Lady, when you take a bite of a chocolate cake with seeds, what comes to mind?”
Arianthe, looking at her as if she was saying something irrelevant, answered, “I want to take another bite.”
“Exactly! So, throwing things is the same. Once you start throwing, you’ll want to throw more. If that keeps happening, someday Lady might get hurt, or someone else might get hurt accidentally. So, please promise me this one thing. Even if you’re very angry, you won’t throw things anymore.”
Arianthe’s expression became even more displeased. She resisted understanding, but eventually, she nodded.
“…Okay.”
“Oh, my, you’re good. Our Lady is truly kind! How can such a nice baby be like this!”
Mayana tightly embraced Arianthe. In response, Arianthe, who was embraced, wriggled in her arms and made a squeaky noise.
“I’m not a baby! I’m seven years old!”
As the sunset and darkness began to spread, the Duke’s garden was silent.
The lively atmosphere that had been filled with the sounds of children giggling and running around the garden melted away into the darkness without a trace. Instead, only the faint flickering of scattered lamps, like sentinels swaying in stillness, occasionally trembled in the quiet.
Jocelyn turned around the narrow corridor behind her room and walked to the window overlooking the side of the garden, where the garden appeared slanting. There was no sound of her footsteps. Occasionally, the rustling sound of her clothes or the cloth slippers made a subtle, hissing noise, as if a small snake was quietly slithering across the floor.
From where she stood, the right flower bed of the garden, where the tea party had taken place, was clearly visible. Although the table and chairs had been neatly cleared away, Jocelyn’s eyes seemed to vividly see the bustling and chaotic scene.
No one knew, but she had stood there throughout the tea party, gazing down at the garden with eyes that seemed to burn like flames.
As the carriage arrived, guests disembarked, and Arianthe greeted her peers, Jocelyn felt a strange anger, like her hair standing on end.
The impudent, half-breed girl, a flaw stamped on the pure pedigree of Valtermindster, daringly playing the role of a lady… witnessing such audacity made her seethe with indignation.
When she heard the maids whispering, “Lady scolded Felix Viscount’s son,” her anger reached its peak. How dare she tarnish the name of the Duke’s family! Running rampant like a whirlwind, she never expected such an incident to occur!
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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