Please Break Up with Me, I Beg! (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 14
As Litania forced a faint smile by pressing her twitching lips with her fingertips, the chamberlain smiled in return.
“The Glass Palace receives the most sunlight and offers the finest views; surely Her Royal Highness will find it pleasing.”
Who would leave the palace with the best sunlight and views unoccupied? It’s probably just empty words.
Even as she thought this, Litania smiled as brightly as she could.
‘If I move palaces, my range of movement will expand—maybe I can even escape the imperial palace.’
The current summer palace was too remote, surrounded by high walls, making escape utterly unthinkable—but the palace next to Princess Herna was open, with many paths radiating outward.
Since the palace is so vast, there must be lapses in security. It would be easier to exploit such gaps and escape.
Feeling much better, Litania hugged Snow tightly and followed the chamberlain. She silently wished this change would finally bring peace.
[This is the timeline separator]The dove that was supposed to bring peace seems to have been roasted by a dragon’s breath.
“Oh my, what a coincidence.”
People call such coincidences a bolt from the blue.
“Yes, indeed… a coincidence, Orbis.”
Trying to hide her trembling eyes, Litania averted her gaze and bowed to Orbis.
She had only worried about encountering Herna when moving palaces, but she had forgotten there was an even greater mountain ahead. Why would the emperor leave the palace with the best sunlight and views unassigned to either prince or princess?
Surely to use it himself.
‘Of course… why else would he grant me such a fine palace…?’
Though granted to her, the palace was not exclusively hers—it could be used by others too.
‘But then…’
Why was Orbis here at the tea party, ostensibly held to comfort the princess after the hunting festival, instead of the emperor himself?
Even if the emperor had come, sitting across from another man’s father over tea would have been uncomfortable—but why send Orbis in his place?
‘If you’re going to send someone, send the Crown Prince or Prince Baphor!’
Litania screamed inwardly, but no one heard her.
“I find the view here quite pleasing. Do you as well?”
“Yes, I… I mean, it’s quite nice.”
To Litania, who only wanted to flee, the view meant nothing.
“You don’t seem to like it.”
Orbis lowered his eyebrows slightly, adopting a faintly gloomy expression.
Had she not known his true nature, she might have wept with admiration and clapped in applause, declaring, “Whatever you say is always right.”
But the dragon before her was a legendary monster who could laugh merrily over tea one moment and tear his opponent apart the next.
“No, I couldn’t possibly dislike it. Of course I like it. Naturally.”
Litania forced a smile, her throat constricting; she couldn’t even lift her teacup, her hands trembling too much.
“Is that so?”
“Yes. Everyone likes beauty.”
“…Pfft.”
Orbis laughed again. He clearly knew how beautiful he was. Suppressing the urge to scream, “You’re the exception!” Litania hastily added:
“I meant the view—the beautiful scenery.”
Leaving people out. No, not even people—exclude all living things. She pinned it firmly to scenery alone. Please, don’t mistake this for any sign of affection toward Orbis.
“Yes. Beautiful scenery.”
The tip of his gloved hand gently brushed his red lips. Like Litania’s, Orbis’s teacup was also full. Neither touched their cup—as if neither had any intention of drinking.
“Then, Litania.”
Orbis rose abruptly and stepped toward her.
Was it because the table was small, or because his legs were long? He hadn’t even taken several steps before he was close to her. As Orbis leaned down slightly, his shimmering golden hair cascaded like a wave.
Litania held her breath and gripped the armrests tightly. He was too close.
If the dragon’s strength were unleashed, a simple grasp could crush her slender frame to bones.
“I know a more beautiful place.”
“Yes, yes.”
“Would you come with me?”
It sounded less like a date invitation and more like a summons to the afterlife. Litania froze, face pale.
“Wait—you mean now?”
“Yes. Now.”
Was there any way to refuse? Litania frantically searched her mind.
“I—I was injured in the leg during the last hunting festival! I can’t walk far!”
“Oh? You injured your leg?”
Orbis tilted his head, then bent his body slightly. Soon, his massive form lowered and his long arm extended.
‘Is he going to lift my skirt to check my leg? Is he insane?’
He wasn’t human—common sense didn’t apply. Litania frantically clutched her skirt.
But moments later, she regretted not holding onto her chair instead.
His firm arm wrapped around her voluminous dress, and suddenly, her body lifted into the air. Orbis smiled as he cradled her waist.
“Then I shall carry you.”
“No! It’s not necessary!”
Before she could finish refusing, she felt weightless—and the scenery around her changed.
“Huh?”
A moment ago, they had been at the garden tea table; now, as if erased and recreated by magic, a new landscape appeared.
Before she could even process what had happened, Orbis adjusted his hold on her and pointed outward with a nod.
“Look around, Litania.”
“Huh…”
They stood on the edge of a high cliff.
Before them stretched an endless, rugged plain, encircled by towering mountains reaching toward the sky.
Litania spotted the faint outline of a distant castle and recognized it as the capital.
She had never left the palace before, and the hunting festival was the only time she had stepped outside—so she had never seen the capital in its entirety.
‘Magnificent…’
She had thought the palace was so large that being confined within it wasn’t suffocating—but she was wrong.
Facing the open plain, the long-flowing river, the glittering lake, and the capital, tiny as a toy, she felt strangely light-hearted.
It wasn’t mere freshness—it was the strange sense of relief one feels upon unexpectedly rediscovering something long forgotten.
She had seen this landscape before.
‘Was it from a novel?’
Litania murmured, gazing blankly at the view.
“There was a lake.”
“It’s hard to notice from within the capital. Up close, it’s even more beautiful.”
Orbis pointed to a line of sparkling, jewel-like lakes, then snapped his fingers.
The scenery changed again, and now a mirror-clear lake spread before them.
‘A teleportation spell.’
She realized why transportation hadn’t developed in this world—if such travel was this easy.
She gazed into the lake.
Vividly colored fish and strange aquatic plants flickered into view.
“Isn’t it beautiful?”
Orbis asked. Litania nodded slightly. Had her earlier fears been unfounded? Orbis had merely shown her various views—no forceful actions at all.
‘Is it too early to worry? How close am I to the original story’s timeline?’
This could almost be called a peculiar date. Slightly relieved, Litania nodded.
“Yes, it’s beautiful.”
“But I am even more beautiful.”
“…”
She wanted to ask, “What are you talking about?” but couldn’t refute it, making her even more trapped.
“Do you find my appearance pleasing?”
Litania drew in a sharp breath and bit her lip.
Even if he were a savage, mad reptile, his appearance had no flaw whatsoever.
His long, radiant golden hair and vivid blue eyes looked as if they had stepped from a sacred painting; his tall, immaculately white-clad figure was nothing short of art.
And more—his graceful stride, effortlessly carrying her entire body with one arm, the elegant movement of his long, snow-white-gloved fingers—each motion was so captivating it stirred her heart.
She admitted it: the dragon appeared to embody beauty, grace, and wonder—the very essence of nature.
‘But admiring his looks is entirely separate from this!’
She needed distance. A psychological distance for survival!
Desperately averting her eyes, she blurted out an excuse:
“I don’t judge people by their appearance.”
“I see. I feel the same.”
“…”
“Although I appear this way, I truly pay no attention to my looks.”
Perhaps because he has everything, he doesn’t even realize how wonderful he is.
Of course, Litania only thought this silently.
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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A richness of emotion, long absent from his usually bland expression, now filled
One hundred points! You have won the hearts of all our readers😭😭
Blocking a human’s desires only makes them crave them more. It only deepens thei
Clearly, that girl will run to her death the next day because she’s stupid, not curious. There’s a difference. 🤦♀️
“You are remarkably astute, sir.”
He will face serious problems due to his inability to express himself correctly😂
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I hope she learns her lesson from that day and doesn’t think about entering the tower
Umm, things have gotten even more embarrassing. I don’t know what to say. (T∀T)
Their relationship has developed fairly well and smoothly, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they truly fell in love, but I’m afraid something bad might happen at the festival.