The central staircase was dizzyingly high.
Arabella didn’t seem to care about its height, she didn’t slow down at all, as if it didn’t matter as long as she could push Ariadne away.
But a fifteenyearold and a tenyearold certainly had a difference in physique. No matter how hard Arabella ran, she couldn’t beat Ariadne.
Ariadne gracefully stepped aside.
But, unfortunately, Isabella was standing diagonally next to Ariadne.
With Ariadne out of the way, Arabella’s path was straight towards her older sister, Isabella.
“Uh, whwhat?”
“Huh?!”
Isabella, unable to avoid the charging Arabella, collided with her younger sister and rolled down the stairs.
Crash!
“Ah!”
“Agh!”
Arabella, who ran straight forward, stopped barely by grabbing the railing near the stairs.
But Isabella, who was standing with her back against the stairs, had nothing to hold onto and no support to resist the force. She rolled down almost a full flight before falling into the narrow space between the stairs.
Thud!
She rolled so violently that she couldn’t get up on her own.
“Ouch……”
The central staircase of the Cardinal de Mare’s residence was strangely high and narrow. The steep incline and narrow staircase width looked really dangerous.
The high ceiling echoed her scream. As Isabella’s voice trailed off, the door to Cardinal de Mare’s reception room burst open.
“What is this noise!”
Hearing the loud noise, Cardinal de Mare who ran out of his private reception room, looked outside.
He looked around and then spotted a frightened Arabella and a calm Ariadne, then his eyes fell on Isabella, lying on the stair landing below, and he shouted.
“What has happened here!”
He signaled a maid to help Isabella up. Maids rushed from all over to lift Isabella, sitting her up and began to apply an ice pack brought from the kitchen.
Isabella, who had injured her ankle, could not stand properly and as Cardinal de Mare saw Isabella slumped on the stair landing, he roared.
“Who did this!”
Isabella cleverly hung her head and said nothing. It was only going to damage her pride.
When Isabella remained silent, Cardinal de Mare glared at Ariadne and Arabella in turn, demanding answers.
“Which one of you did this?”
Arabella, turned pale and stammered an excuse.
Ariadne, who could have been reduced to tears by such a formidable father at the age of ten, managed to speak intelligently, leading Arabella to think that she was quite competent.
“Father, it wasn’t me… it was Ariadne, Ariadne…!”
Although she was her own and there was a difference between liking what the child says and liking the child.
Arabella’s attempt to shift the blame was clearly understood by Cardinal de Mare.
“Ariadne! How many days has it been since you returned from the Bergamo estate and you’re already causing such accidents!”
Arabella sighed with relief as a scapegoat appeared, and the maids gathered on the stair landing looked at Ariadne as if she were an intriguing foreigner.
She had only returned from the rural farm to San Carlo estate a day ago, and she had hurt Lucrezia’s golden eldest daughter and earned the wrath of Cardinal de Mare, her future was not going to be easy.
However, Ariadne began to speak without any sign of fear, as if regretting the misunderstanding, her attitude calm yet respectful.
“Father, I regret causing such a commotion inside the house just a few days after returning from the estate. Moreover, Isabella was only trying to help me and got hurt…”
‘Help?’
Isabella, who had been bowing her head, looked at Ariadne with suspicion in her eyes.
‘What is her motive?’
Arabella scowled and glared at Ariadne. Ariadne was unfazed by her sisters’ aggressive gazes and continued her explanation.
“Isabella, my sister, she is indeed kind as I heard a lot about her when I was in the territory. She is indeed the most respected lady in the Castle of San Carlo. I just arrived and I am sincerely grateful for her extending her hand to help me. But…”
Ariadne glanced at Arabella.
“Arabella, you need to be more careful. You played a trick and pushed me, and Isabella fell down the stairs trying to help me. You’re ten, you’re no longer a child, you need to behave more modestly as a young lady.”
Arabella’s face turned red from the tip of her ears.
She thought she could speak freely in the scary situation where Cardinal de Mare was holding back because she was a naive girl who just came up from the countryside, but Ariadne spewed out the contents in front of the cardinal without any fear as if she had oil on her tongue.
“No! It’s not true!”
Arabella screamed desperately. She knew very well what her father could do when he was angry. She could not become the youngest daughter who injured her sister who is loved by her father.
“It’s not that Isabella was trying to help her, but she was next to me and she pushed me towards my sister! She is the one who hurt Isabella!”
Ariadne bowed her head with a wounded expression, without even batting an eye at Arabella’s bold lie.
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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