Adel stopped in her tracks. The voice that came through the crack of the door was Conrad’s. A maid who saw Adel quickly tried to greet her, but Adel put a finger to her lips. Her fingertips trembled.
Her heart pounded wildly. A bad feeling welled up.
Even though she knew she shouldn’t, Adel approached the dining room door.
“We need to bring Olivia back. She came to our house for that purpose, didn’t she?”
Through the narrow gap, Conrad’s back was visible.
What did my sister come to do?
Just like when she went to the princess’s tea party last time, an uneasy feeling wrapped around her whole body.
“If Adel becomes the prince’s consort.”
What is this about? My sister is engaged to the prince. The two love each other, so why is my story coming up?
“……You will suffer enough to die from the Empress’s poison. I cannot bear to see that.”
At Conrad’s heavy voice, Adel reflexively thought of Olivia.
What about Sister Olivia?
In an instant, Adel’s face turned pale as if all the blood had drained from it.
I don’t know what this means. Adel ran blindly towards the room.
Suddenly, someone grabbed Adel’s shoulder. Startled, Adel turned around. It was Jade.
“Jade, big brother.”
“What’s wrong? What happened?”
All her strength drained in an instant. Jade shouted as he firmly caught the sagging Adel.
“Are you alright? Call the doctor! Call the doctor!”
The servants scattered in all directions. In that situation, Jade faced Adel’s pale face.
What on earth happened? There was not a single trace of color on Adel’s face.
Damn it. He had meant to go to the duke’s place to fetch Olivia, but Adel’s situation was more urgent. Adel, who had been frail since childhood, had always been a concern for the family.
“Let’s go to bed first. Are you feeling dizzy?”
“Big brother.”
“Yes. Tell me.”
“It’s not true, right?”
Adel’s voice was desperate. But Jade couldn’t understand the sentence without the subject.
“What’s not true?”
“Sister……”
The footsteps of Jade, who had been striding towards Adel’s room, stopped. Whether he liked it or not, Adel’s voice was trembling.
“My sister is not suffering because of the Empress, right?”
Jade clenched his teeth. It was something he had never seriously considered.
If that woman, who was a noble to her core, wanted to, she could easily have tormented Olivia.
“……I don’t know.”
But whether it was true or not, it had nothing to do with Jade. Adel’s eyes swelled with tears.
“Tell me it’s a lie.”
“……You’re getting angry.”
“So, does that mean the position of the prince’s consort was originally mine?”
Jade’s eyes trembled violently for a moment.
Could it be? He had hoped it was a lie, but it was true.
Haha. Adel laughed in despair. Conrad’s entangled words matched her situation like pieces of a puzzle.
“She came to our house for that purpose, didn’t she?”
The sudden appearance of a sister in childhood, the family that kept her hidden from high society, the way they treated her like she was nobody. It all made sense if that was the reason.
Then the suffering from the Empress’s poison.
It would all be true.
Tears threatened to fall from Adel’s eyes. Her sister, who should have gone to the palace instead of her, was pitiful. Her sister, who must have been tormented by the Empress, was heartbreaking.
At the same time, the words she had said to her sister became slowly clear.
“Don’t touch me! You’re dirty!”
“Don’t pretend to care. How could you, sister!”
“It was because of you. Mother suddenly disappeared. It was all because of you, sister!”
“Get out! You’re not even my sister! Just go! I can’t stand the sight of you!”
What had I said?
As if she had been hit on the back of her head, Adel stood dazedly and burst into tears.
Lost in thought, Jade had no opportunity to console Adel, but that was a relief in itself.
As the fog cleared and the questions dispersed, Adel realized the truth.
When Mother passed away, my sister was only six years old. And she loved Mother very much at that age of six.
At the age of six, with her head strangely cut off, she seemed happy just seeing me, mom, and Jade, smiling bashfully. What could a mere sixyearold child have done?
My sister couldn’t have killed mom.
It was all because of my sister coming to our house. Her engagement with the prince. The many incidents. Maybe even the fact that she couldn’t play with me.
Perhaps it was all the fault of the adults.
Suddenly, I remembered my sister’s eyes gazing at me. Her tender green pupils that kept glancing at me, even when she turned away with an indifferent look.
Why am I thinking about it only now?
I missed my sister. Right now, this instant.
My heart sank. Tears mixed with regret trickled down Esella’s cheeks.
[This is the time separator]Olivia looked around the room as if astonished.
“What is this?”
Her voice rose in bewilderment. But the Duke seemed rather proud, smiling with satisfaction.
“It’s a room remodeled for relaxation.”
“You removed all the books?”
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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