“Hey, how on earth am I supposed to find a redhaired woman here!”
The middleaged man who had been circling around the Langbue Orphanage for two hours kicked a rolling pebble on the alleyway, frustrated.
“At this time, women would all be inside their homes. Who would still be wandering outside?!”
The wanderers arrived in this alley in the afternoon, but due to the short winter sun, it was already getting dark even though it wasn’t even five o’clock. Certainly, it was time for a decent maiden to be inside.
“We’re just living a life without answers, but those who requested this really don’t have any answers!”
“Stop complaining and be quiet! People are staring!”
This alleyway was an area where poor people crowded to live.
Children full of curiosity about strangers were poking their heads out from inside their houses. About ten pairs of eyes, shiny as pebbles, stared intently at the wandering uncles.
“Why don’t we just delegate this to someone local and we can go back? Let’s go drink with the deposit we received. How do we know when that woman will come out…”
The grumbling middleaged man scowled at his colleague’s dirty hand, which was covering his mouth.
“Shh! Look there, look at that!!”
Prompted by his colleague, the middleaged man looked ahead. A young woman with red hair was coming out through the back door of the Langbue Orphanage. She was walking briskly, wearing boots and a cloak, carrying a wicker basket in her arms.
“She’s got red hair!”
Her attire seemed a bit too shabby to be called noble, but she appeared more affluent than a commoner.
The two wanderers caught each other’s eye and nodded meaningfully.
‘That woman is definitely the one!’
Looking around, all the people wandering around had gone home and there was nobody left. It was the perfect place to commit the act.
The middleaged man approached the redhaired woman, hiding a dagger in his sleeve.
“Excuse me, miss.”
“Yes?”
The innocent blueeyed maiden turned her head to look back at the middleaged man who called her.
Thud!
The middleaged man’s dagger stabbed into the redhaired woman’s belly. The woman collapsed forward without even being able to make a sound, losing her balance.
“It’s done!”
The middleaged man picked up the fallen woman. He intended to drag her to a dark place and secure the evidence of the murder as ordered by the client. However, his colleague hastily tapped his shoulder.
“Ah, what now.”
“Look there, look!”
The middleaged man lifted his head in annoyance and looked ahead.
“……!”
There was another redhaired woman with a terrified expression. If the hair of the dead woman was the color of autumn leaves, the hair of the living woman was burning orange.
‘We were definitely told to kill a ‘plump woman’ with red hair and dressed in fine clothes….’
The middleaged man weighed the corpse he was holding. Even generously, the corpse he was carrying was of average build. No, honestly, it was on the thinner side.
“It’s her! Catch that woman!”
The middleaged man whispered urgently to his colleague. The two wanderers exchanged glances and immediately pursued the newly appeared woman.
“Kyaa!”
The ‘plump’ woman with burning orange hair, Maleta, was startled when she saw two grimlooking men chasing her.
She turned to run back into the Langbue Orphanage. She ran with all her might, but the men, accustomed to physical labor, were overwhelmingly faster.
“Got her!”
“Ah!”
“Shut her mouth!”
The middleaged man caught Maleta. His colleague, instead of covering Maleta’s mouth as instructed by the middleaged man, directly stabbed her with a dagger.
“Ugh!”
Leaving only a final scream, Maleta slumped down. She was out of breath. It was the end of the greedy Maleta.
The wanderers stood in the middle of the alley, exchanging troubled looks.
“What do we do? It seems we’ve killed one more.”
“As long as we don’t get caught, we’re fine. Let’s get out of here quickly.”
“Weren’t we told to cut off the head from the body?”
“Which one of the two?”
“Doesn’t it seem like the second one?”
“What if it’s the first one? If we bring the wrong head, won’t we not get paid?”
“Then let’s just take both.”
“Alright.”
The wanderers each picked up a corpse, quickly left the back alley of the Langbue Orphanage.
The back alley of the old well seemed deserted at first glance. However, in areas densely populated by the poor, there were always eyes watching from somewhere.
Several eyes twinkled within the shantytown built from carelessly assembled wooden planks, having witnessed that incident.
[This is the time separator]“I’m back.”
Mr. Scampa, the manager of the old well in Langbue, came home from work a little later than usual today.
“Mother, what about dinner?”
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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