‘Knows the Nokhwaseok and can ride a horse? And with quite a graceful posture?’
“That woman can’t be an ordinary maid, and…”
He looked down at his right hand, where he had plucked the leaf.
“It’s strange indeed…”
Whenever he brushed against that maid, the headache that no medicine could relieve disappeared, and even the air around him seemed to clear.
‘It was the same in the forest that day.’
When he grabbed the wrist of the maid he met in the forest, seeking relief from his throbbing headache, the pain eased as if by magic.
And he was so taken aback by the unexpected clarity that he didn’t even think to punish the maid for entering the forbidden forest.
“It was the same on the stairs then.”
Did that maid have something to do with the family’s curse?
No, even if she had nothing to do with the curse, the fact that the pain disappeared for a moment every time he touched her was undeniable.
He didn’t know why, but the mouse belllike maid kept nagging at his nerves.
From the first moment they met to now.
Valige, who had been thinking for a moment, seemed to make up his mind.
“Then I must verify it with my own eyes.”
[This is the time separator]“Lina, take a new incense burner to the Duke’s bedroom.”
“Me? Me?”
Lina stupidly answered the housemistress’s words to go to the Duke’s bedroom.
The Duke’s bedroom was offlimits to employees other than the maids in charge of that room, the housemistress, and the butler.
“Didn’t you receive the notice yet? You’ve been reassigned as the Duke’s exclusive maid starting today.”
“Me? What’s sudden…”
“It’s a good thing, isn’t it? You were unjustly treated because of Susan.”
“No, I am not at all…”
Lina tried to protest the unwelcome news, but Emma was not interested in hearing her.
“Don’t worry. Since the Duke himself called you back, go put the incense burner quickly.”
“…The Duke himself…?”
‘That’s even more worrying…? What on earth is he thinking?’
The vague discomfort, like a shadow, clung to Lina from what had happened earlier in the day.
‘It would have been better to be punished. And his behavior earlier was strange, too…’
Emma ignored Lina’s uneasy expression and placed the incense burner in her empty hand.
Lost in thought and fumbling, Lina smelled the faint scent spreading over her heavy hand and asked Emma.
“Is this the incense from the south?”
“Duke, it seems you have not been sleeping well these days, so the butler personally made inquiries and brought this in. It’s called a sleeping scent, and they say that if you light it before bed, you will sleep deeply. Don’t forget to put it in the bedroom, as it’s your responsibility from now on.”
‘He had insomnia, no wonder his eyes looked darker and his gaze more ferocious than when I saw him a few days ago.’
Lina sighed inwardly and answered.
“Yes. I understand.”
[This is the time separator]Knockknock.
Lina, who had arrived at the Duke’s bedroom door, knocked but there was no response.
‘Is there nobody here?’
Lina, confirming that the Duke was not in the room, opened the door and went inside.
Looking at the dark bedroom where no light was entering, she momentarily considered turning on the lights, but then thought that she only needed to leave the incense and approached the bed briskly.
Thump.
Lina, having placed the incense on the small table beside the bed, saw something protruding underneath the sheet.
“What is this?”
She approached the bed nonchalantly and drew in a breath.
Because, in one corner of the bed she thought was empty, the Duke was lying with his eyes closed.
‘Why didn’t the housekeeper tell me that the Duke was in the room!?’
Lina, spitting out a silent resentment, turned to hurry out of the bedroom.
“Ugh…ugh.”
But she had no choice but to stop in her tracks at the groan that came from behind.
Sweat, beading between the Duke’s furrowed brows, soaked his black hair.
The man, tightly gripping the white sheet with both fists, tossing his head from side to side, looked as if he was having a bad dream or was in agony.
‘He seems to be having a nightmare… should I wake him?’
She hesitated, recalling Emma’s words that the Duke hadn’t been sleeping well recently, but the man’s painful appearance was pitiful.
‘Better to sleep less than suffer like this?’
Lina, having made up her mind, approached the Duke’s bedside and cautiously knelt.
“Hemhem, excuse me, Duke.”
Although she deliberately cleared her throat to make her presence known, the Duke showed no sign of waking.
‘Is it really insomnia? He’s sleeping so well?’
That day, the image of the man who did not wake until she left noisily overlapped. The only difference was that he looked comfortable then, now he looked tormented?
“Duke?”
She called the Duke in a slightly louder voice, but there was still no response. Lina, who had been considering for a moment, gently placed her hand on his shoulder to wake him.
It was in an instant. Her vision flipped.
The Duke, whose eyes had suddenly opened, was on top of her, looking down with a chilly gaze.
A deep bass, as deep as a cave, chilled her ear.
“What exactly are you?”
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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