“Elizabeth, I intend to hand over the item to you and explain how to use it.”
“I will listen as well.”
“Do you really have to, Your Majesty?”
“Why? Is there something wrong?”
Nikolai tilted his head quizzically.
It was clear that he was once again trying to exercise his villainous instincts.
Just by looking at his glaring green eyes, it could be discerned.
“It’s a sensitive and essential item for women, so…….”
Douglas trailed off, seeming embarrassed.
‘Susan must have sent menstrual pain relief. I still have some left.’
The Netleton Dukes had always had more talent in medicine than literature.
Susan, with her weak constitution, couldn’t attend the academy.
Instead, she studied medicine at home, using the recipes left by her ancestors.
After suffering from her father’s gambling debts, she could no longer afford expensive herbs.
The person who volunteered to sponsor her was Duchess Elizabeth.
It wasn’t so much that she cherished Susan, but that the medicine she made had astonishing effects on menstrual pain and hangovers.
Thanks to that, I also received help.
“Your Majesty, you must be busy, so perhaps you should leave?”
The polite way to say, “Please leave.”
Nikolai bluntly refused.
“I’m not busy at all.”
“But you practice swordsmanship every day, don’t you?”
“I’m resting these days.”
It was a suspicious expression as if Douglas and I were plotting something.
In any case, suspicion was something scary like this.
“I’ll listen too. A woman’s essential item? I’m curious.”
“Will you be affected?”
“Elizabeth. Do you think I only think about women all day?”
“Weren’t you? I’m sorry for misunderstanding.”
Nikolai’s eyebrows twitched.
If Carles hadn’t arrived, they might have gotten into a verbal skirmish.
Or engaged in a heated debate over how to take menstrual pain medication.
“Your Majesty. We don’t have time to delay.”
“You can handle it yourself. I trust you, Carles.”
“You have to hear it yourself, Your Majesty.”
“Don’t you see I’m busy?”
“The chief physician has confessed.”
Nikolai paused.
As if he had been waiting, Douglas bowed.
“I will have a brief conversation with Miss Elizabeth. Please proceed, Your Majesty.”
It was just a greeting, but Nikolai grimaced as if insulted.
He didn’t forget the fierce warning either.
“Get to the point quickly. Don’t forget that Netleton’s fate is in my hands!”
“Trust me.”
“How can I trust you? Again…”
Nikolai paused once more.
Carles signaled the knights.
“Bring him.”
The knights grabbed Nikolai’s arms on both sides.
It seemed quite familiar.
“I will excuse myself, Your Majesty.”
“Let go. I will walk on my own.”
Nikolai, with his burning eyes, looked at the knights and then swiftly turned to me.
“We’ll discuss the crown prince’s education tomorrow. Just the two of us, over lunch!”
Saying let’s eat together like a duel challenge?
Why is Douglas glaring?
Confused, I was left alone with my former fiancé.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“Did Susan send the painkillers?”
“She just used that as an excuse, Your Majesty.”
“Why?”
“Because he wanted to be alone with Elizabeth.”
With a nonchalant face, Douglas smiled.
‘A naive deer deceiving the emperor? Is this gall spilling over? Nikolai is eyeing him with hunger.’
In my eyes, Douglas looked like a herbivorous animal in the jaws of a beast.
Douglas held out a small gift box the size of a palm from his pocket.
“I do have something to give you. Open the box.”
I untied the red ribbon, tore the pinkish wrapping paper, and a delicately crafted crystal bottle appeared.
Inside the beautiful bottle, tiny dark red grains were packed full.
“It’s a specialty of the Pimianta region, hot pepper.”
“Pepper, you say?”
“You said you wanted to eat something spicy, didn’t you?”
“That’s true, but…….”
“The pepper of Pimianta is so spicy that ordinary people can’t even taste it. It will suit Elizabeth’s taste perfectly.”
How did Douglas get this?
Pepper is a luxury item more expensive than the same weight of gold.
Douglas, who sensed what I was worrying about, looked embarrassed.
“Actually, the royalties for 『The Empire’s Red Star』 came in.”
“Really?”
“200,000 copies have been sold. It’s still selling. The publisher gave me a fortune I’ve never touched in my life.”
“You really did well! Congratulations, Douglas!”
I patted the back of the bestselling author.
Originally, 『The Empire’s Red Star』 was going to make Douglas richer by becoming a sensational hit.
When I touched him, Douglas blushed like a boy.
“If it wasn’t for Elizabeth, I wouldn’t have been able to complete it. The heroine Elize wouldn’t exist in this world either.”
“You would have written it sometime. You have the talent and passion, Douglas.”
“Thank you. It feels like all the fatigue has been washed away.”
“How’s your stomach illness?”
“It got better quickly. I ate the medicine made by Susan, managed my diet, and have been exercising regularly.”
Douglas rubbed his head as if it was all thanks to me.
The original Douglas was a typical otaku character who knew nothing but literature and Elizabeth.
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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