Continuing her soft-spoken story, Mayana slightly lowered her gaze. Ariante had quietly fallen asleep. With her slightly parted lips and her eyelashes laying low, Ariante looked angelic as she slept, gripping the hem of Mayana’s clothes. Even her shallow breathing sounded utterly peaceful.
Careful not to wake Ariante, Mayana slipped out of the bed and left the room. She lightly kissed Ariante’s forehead and deliberately left the sewing kit near the bed before leaving the room quietly.
In case Ariante woke up, seeing the sewing kit would reassure her that Mayana would soon return.
Though the lamp was on, the mansion was eerily quiet in the middle of the night. The liveliness and bustle of daytime were nowhere to be found, and it felt as though ghastly ghosts could appear at any moment.
Even the once beautiful pillar decorations and sculptures now looked menacing in the dark.
Mayana tied back her slightly tousled hair, placed her headscarf in her pocket, and quietly exited through the western door. She had worried that Venti might ignore her call and not show up, but thankfully, Venti was at the meeting spot with an annoyed face.
“What took you so long? You’ll be responsible if I freeze to death.”
“Freezing to death on a summer night would be quite a skill. What should I eat to accomplish that?”
Vainty glared at Meiana with a flushed face. She was deeply offended that Meiana no longer showed her any respect, nor did she politely address her as “Miss Vainty.” But now was not the time to dwell on such matters.
“Get to the point. Confess! Did you steal my button or is there another culprit?”
Meiana stared at Vainty intently. Perhaps due to the dim lamp light, Vainty looked around nervously, trying to read Meiana’s expression.
Meiana spoke.
“First, you should answer honestly. Trust me, Vainty, I can clearly find out whether you’re lying or not. You’d better not try to deceive me.”
“What? What nonsense have you been talking about?”
“Vainty, did you lock the princess in the warehouse? I mean the makeshift storage room on the ground floor. Did you trap her in there and close the door?”
The color drained from Vainty’s face. Yet, this reaction was not because her hidden guilt had been discovered. It was something else. Meiana closely examined Vainty’s face, waiting for her to speak up.
Finally, Vainty spoke.
“What are you talking about? Why would I do something like that?”
“Don’t you know better? You’ve always been spiteful toward the princess. You never respected her. Do you hate her so much that you locked her in the basement? Do you find it satisfying that she sprained her ankle and can’t move?”
Vainty stomped her feet, but it made no sound on the grass. As if even angrier, she spoke again in an almost screeching voice.
“Is that what you’re saying? I never went near the warehouse! I thought the princess sprained her ankle by foolishly climbing a tree and falling off! Who would’ve thought such a thing happened?”
“Really? Then why was your button on the warehouse floor? I can’t understand that. Can you explain?”
An oppressive silence fell. Vainty seemed on the verge of losing it, unable to shout, yet also unable to lunge at Meiana.
It looked like she was about to scream, but then she clenched her fists tightly and began pacing in circles. Watching her, one could almost think she’d lost her mind.
Meiana spoke.
“I found your button in the warehouse after the princess fell. I couldn’t understand why it was there, so I went back to look. The door to the storage room on the floor was too heavy for the princess to possibly open or close alone. Meaning, someone deliberately dropped her in and closed the door.”
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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