“Haven’t I already thanked you for sending her to me?”
“Does that even qualify as gratitude?”
The atmosphere, which had previously been melancholy, heated up with Gillian’s persistent responses.
“What else can be said, then?”
“Gillian Barlock. I am Termina. No, I was Termina. The lineage that repaid Barlock’s dedication with enmity.”
It seemed she regretted her words, as her expression briefly hardened.
Even so, she was lovely.
Gillian let go of Bianca, whom he had been holding, and gently cupped her cheek.
“Don’t say things like that.”
“……”
“Huh?”
“But it’s true.”
“What is true?”
“I am Termina. Or rather, I was. This is a fact that can’t be denied by anyone.”
“There’s no need to wear a guilt that doesn’t even exist.”
Upon hearing his words, her eyes, which had been quite dry, moistened again.
Her tearfilled eyes mirrored the lake.
She was beautiful.
Gillian gazed at her as if imprinting her image, then slowly wiped her tears away.
Although they moistened again while being wiped, Gillian carefully moved his hand.
“To me, you are just ‘Bianca.’ If you prefer another name, I’ll call you that. Joan is fine. A name that seems like it could be stubbornly insistent.”
“What is that supposed to mean?”
“Hicks would be fine too. It feels like a cunning secretary who terribly cherishes his allies.”
“I don’t like cunning.”
“Then how about Craviolla? Doesn’t it give you the feel of a gallant knight who wields a sword?”
“I have no arm strength, so being a knight is out of the question.”
“How about being the one who commands the knights? Regina. The name also suits you as a queen.”
In the lengthening conversation, Bianca’s tears began to recede.
While Gillian slowly wiped away the remaining moisture with his thumb, he asked, “Hmm?”
“Gillian Barlock, Regina Termina is the name of an ancestor.”
“The name Regina has been used countless times in Termina’s royal family, hasn’t it?”
“Even so……”
“Then, become my Regina. Be the ruler of this North, and the queen of Barlock.”
At the end of his words, Gillian tilted his head and planted a kiss on Bianca’s forehead.
A warm, soft sensation spread on her forehead.
Smooch.
The sound reverberated a beat later in her ears.
“Huh?”
And even later than that, she realized what had happened.
Her face flushed all the way to her neck, Bianca grabbed her forehead and hastily backed away.
Thump thump thump.
Her heart pounded as if it had settled into her head.
“Ju, ju, just now!”
“I was begging.”
Knowing fully well what she was talking about.
Bianca’s mouth dropped open at the sight of Gillian’s stern expression.
“What is this, a plea?”
He didn’t want to appear flustered in front of him, but ended up stammering his words unintentionally.
It was because the place where Gillian’s lips had touched was still burning.
His entire nervous system seemed to be focused on his forehead, rendering him unable to think calmly.
“Doesn’t it feel like a plea? Should I kneel then?”
“Don’t joke around!”
Bianca screamed as she felt that Gillian, who was about to hold her hand, might kneel at any moment.
“At least I don’t propose as a joke.”
No words came out this time.
Smack.
It was because of the man who deliberately kissed her cheek.
“Don’t like a plea? How about a temptation?”
“…….”
He held Bianca’s rigid cheek with both hands and smiled.
“I am more sincere and persistent than I appear.”
“…….”
“I can wait forever.”
Smack.
“Only if you give an answer.”
The faint breath that fell onto the bridge of his nose and the more distinct warm touch pressing against his forehead.
Bianca, who had been standing as if frozen, trembled belatedly at the sight of Gillian kissing her.
“I, I, I’ll consider it!”
She had no idea what they were talking about or how far they had gotten.
Although his lips that were pressing on her forehead had been lifted, the sensation remained and only became more distinct.
Smack. Smack.
The wet sound ringing in her ears made Bianca want to scream.
Ah!
Maybe it would be better to have auditory hallucinations at times like this!
Bianca turned and ran, covering her ears.
She had completely forgotten the words of the etiquette teacher who said that a graceful lady should not run.
Though the hem of her thick dress got entangled around her toes, Bianca expertly kicked it away as she quickly climbed the stairs.
The sense of loss that had made her run down the stairs had long since disappeared.
Smack.
Gillian, who had been quietly watching Bianca’s retreating figure, suddenly burst into laughter.
“How cute.”
The image of a longlost person seemed to overlap with the figure of Bianca, who was running with her long hair flowing.
Surprisingly, it was too similar, and for a moment Gillian felt as if he had returned to those old times.
Those old times that he let slip away, not knowing they were happiness.
Like waves scattering, her black hair.
Gillian, who had been watching that scene, whispered softly.
“I’ve used it so much that it’s no longer the name of the orphan it once was, but…”
Even so.
It seemed difficult to find a name that would suit Bianca, who was to become the queen of Barlock, better than this one.
“Regina Termina.”
The name lingered on the tip of his tongue.
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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