Covered by a black veil, her face wasn’t clearly visible, but Bellige recognized her at a glance.
Then, with a quick step, Bellige approached Lina and tightly embraced her.
“I missed you.”
For him, the past few days had been nothing short of hell. How many times had he reproached himself on the way here?
Surely, he thought he was being threatened or something similar.
If Lina didn’t truly desire the engagement with the Second Prince.
That’s why he wanted to comfort her. In his warm breath, Lina almost burst into tears.
‘I feel the same way.’
Swallowing the words she couldn’t bring herself to say, Lina unintentionally tried to pull him into an embrace, only to withdraw her hands, pushing away the man’s shoulders.
“Lina…?”
He looked at her with a trembling gaze.
An abandoned child’s expression, as if questioning why he wasn’t being touched.
“Why…”
Negative thoughts suddenly surfaced in his mind.
Assigning meaning to Lina’s incomprehensible actions.
However, the words that escaped her lips ruthlessly trampled on his desperation.
“We shouldn’t be like this anymore.”
“…”
“I am no longer the Marchioness of Fermannes… I am now the fiancée of the Second Prince.”
With a single word from Lina, she felt the man’s body stiffening.
Not only his body but even his lips seemed to have hardened, and he silently continued staring at her.
“Why on earth… Why?”
As if trying to deny reality, he grabbed her shoulders.
“Did the Second Prince threaten you at all?”
“…”
“Otherwise, why would you leave me…”
There’s no reason to abandon you.
The words Bellige couldn’t bring himself to say lingered in his mouth.
“Lina…”
Please, just say it. Please.
Bellige asked Lina, his voice pleading for the answer he wanted.
“Yes.”
And immediately, Lina gave the answer he had been eagerly awaiting.
‘As expected.’
With a relieved expression, Bellige, who finally relaxed, hugged her tightly once again.
“I knew it. There’s no way you’d suddenly leave me.”
Yes, Lina had no intention of betraying him.
Look at this. It’s clear that Bellerge was threatened by Prince Bliteus. Now that he had finally let go, Bellige gently swept her hair off her shoulder.
“Don’t worry now. Tell me what happened. Why on earth did he threaten you? I’ll take care of it all, so…”
“Half right and half wrong, Your Excellency.”
Lina carefully withdrew from the Marquis’s hand, which was caressing her.
“The Second Prince didn’t threaten me. He offered to rescue me.”
“What do you mean…”
Bellige’s body stiffened at Lina’s resolute tone. He looked at her with eyes that found it hard to comprehend.
Then Lina brought up the words she had repeated to herself dozens of times on her way.
“I’ve hidden a lot from you, Your Excellency. My age, my status, my abilities… You only knew one thing about me, and that’s the name Lina.”
“…”
“Did you ever wonder why the Fermannes family was cursed?”
Why did she suddenly bring up the topic of the family curse? Bellige frowned at her words, which deviated from the subject.
“Why would you bring that up now…”
“I did that.”
“What…?”
A certain strong gloominess gripped his throat.
“I cursed the Marquis family.”
“What…? A curse?”
Bellige pondered for a moment on what curse Lina was talking about. A curse that befell the Marquis family.
Were there other Marquis families in the empire cursed, aside from Fermannes?
His mind was tangled with difficult words, and at that moment, he could only mutter and smile.
“400 years ago, I killed them all, including the saint whom you loved.”
Truth and falsehood.
What Lina was telling Bellige was the subtle gap between them.
‘So, Bellige, forget about me now.’
Despite her boiling emotions, words of infinite coldness emerged from her lips.
“I killed your father. And his father’s father… I killed them all. Lived through four hundred long years with their lives as the price. And now, it’s time for you to die too.”
‘I’ll take even your guilt.’
Lina, barely calming her trembling voice, finally parted her lips.
“The Second Prince knows about it.”
“…”
“The method to lift the curse of the Fermannes family.”
“…So, is choosing him in exchange for breaking the curse of our family? For me…?”
“No, it’s for me. I can barely breathe with the guilt of committing such terrible deeds. Marquis.”
It was so painful that you did such things because of me.
“Bellige, as you said. I’ll do anything you want.”
The passionate confession he once made to Lina became a dagger, stabbing into the man’s heart.
“Please abandon me.”
Ah, how fortunate it was to wear a black veil.
It prevented the imminent burst of tears from revealing her face.
“And please, live. Bellige.”
This was the best thing Lina could say to him.
“Goodbye, Bellige.”
As she bid farewell, she gave him the parting words she hadn’t been able to say before.
‘I loved you.’
For a very long time, from the past until now.
Splash. Splash[Dash].
The raindrops that had stopped for a moment began to fall again.
It was the belated beginning of the autumn rain.
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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