Hallways of the prince’s palace.
Having heard a new report, Viscount Hargis hastily ran towards the direction of the prince’s office. Before catching his breath, he knocked on the office door, and a brief permission was granted.
Almost simultaneously, Prince Leopold opened the door, and a momentary confusion flickered over Viscount Hargis’s bright face.
“I greet Your Highness. However,”
Unaware, Leopold continued,
“… What brings Duke Madelaine here?”
Conrad understood, precisely to that extent.
Conrad feigned ignorance of Viscount Hargis’s confusion and pointed to the documents he held.
“As Your Highness mentioned that you would receive a report on the invitation of the Hepti diplomatic mission, I came as a deputy in place of the foreign affairs representative.”
“You must be busy. Thank you for your efforts.”
Formal greetings were exchanged. In the meantime, while Leopold casually looked at the list of the diplomatic mission, he nonchalantly raised his pen.
“By the way, when is the diplomatic mission arriving?”
“Yes, Your Highness. I received a definite answer that they will arrive the day after tomorrow, the first day of the summer banquet.”
“A day late.”
It was an indifferent reproach.
It was a remark made without considering the time it takes from Hepti to the empire, but instead of pointing out the fact, Conrad silently bowed his head.
As Leopold, who was casually looking at him, tilted his head with a smirk.
Silvery hair falling coolly, a cold and inscrutable face. Conrad’s face vaguely reminded Leopold of someone.
If only he could erase it, but the unclear image lingered and disturbed his mind.
Gradually narrowing down the possibilities, one name vividly came to Leopold’s mind.
Olivia Madelaine.
As the hazy image in his mind became clearer, Leopold’s face slowly stiffened.
The Olivia that came to mind for a moment was not the one who always sought my love like a puppy.
“Olivia Madelaine, I will soon greet you again as the future Duchess of Bicandor. Please.”
It was Olivia who turned her back to me at Tiaze Palace and disappeared.
“… Until then, stay safe.”
With a heavily wrinkled forehead, Leopold lightly raised his head.
It was my misconception that Olivia seemed to resemble the duke.
Olivia, who always looked pitifully at me with affection, couldn’t be like him.
Leopold covered his thoughts as if he were putting away documents. His handsome eyes, chillingly set, flickered toward Conrad.
“Well, now that the matter of the diplomatic mission is settled…”
Taking advantage of Conrad’s hesitation as he picked up the documents, Leopold talked about the real reason he called Conrad.
Since the blame for his father was not what made Conrad uncomfortable, but the name Olivia itself.
“……I apologize, Your Highness.”
Leopold’s face, which had been slowly smiling as he awaited a response, twisted at the apology.
Apologizing.
“Has it been confirmed that she will attend this summer’s banquet?”
“……I apologize.”
“Have you managed to get in touch?”
“……I apologize.”
He couldn’t bear it any longer. As his vision blurred with red, Leopold grabbed whatever was within reach and threw it.
A rough, cracking sound echoed through the office, and the thrown document cover fell haphazardly against the wall. When a sound of someone swallowing a gasp faintly emerged, Leopold chuckled softly, muttering as if talking to himself.
“……Indeed. It’s almost amusing to ask like this.”
Contrary to his casual tone, his sea-blue eyes, sharply tinted, bore into Conrad.
“If you had shown any signs of inquiring about her well-being, or if Duke Madelaine had worried about his sister in the first place, he wouldn’t have sent the lady to Bicandor so easily.”
Who is blaming whom now?
It’s a well-known fact throughout the empire that the prince accompanied his lover instead of Olivia at that position.
“Your Highness, I didn’t expect you to say such a thing.”
Uttering his words like constructing a poem, Conrad, unable to suppress his boiling emotions, continued.
Flames flickered in the usually cold amethyst eyes.
It was actually laughable. Conrad Madelaine, who had always been hostile to Olivia, was now siding with her.
The corner of Leopold’s firmly closed lips twitched slightly. A sarcastic laugh escaped from his lips.
“Now. Is the Duke blaming me?”
Leopold spoke in a low, threatening voice. A tense atmosphere enveloped the office.
It was absurd.
The successor to the Marcelline Duchy, a loyal supporter of the empire, barely opposing me because of Olivia.
Leopold, who had been leaning against the desk with a sense of expectation, suddenly paused. Today, he felt a strange uneasiness from Conrad.
The cold gaze and the blaming words from earlier.
It’s as if…
But Leopold didn’t dwell on the thought any longer.
The tall figures of the two men radiated an undisguised hostility towards each other. It was a moment when the sharp energy to overwhelm the opponent clashed fiercely.
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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