However, meeting someone who claimed that the responsibility for my birth lay with the Count, and without even criticizing the Count, was a first for me.
I felt dispirited for no reason. I clutched the rose he had given me and slumped back into my bag.
“Move aside, you’re blocking the starlight.”
Duke Caidel stepped aside with a baffled look on his face. In the deepening night, the stars were scattered everywhere.
Together with him in the dim garden at this hour felt somewhat surreal. The night wind cooled our excitement.
I spoke more calmly.
“I was on my way to a journey.”
“At this hour of the night?”
“I planned to leave in the morning, but… things don’t always go as planned. I’m like that.”
I was speaking around a sad story of my own, but he started laughing, rocking his body.
Despite my glaring at him, he laughed as much as he wanted and then replied.
“Was that also your doing? Commanding Misha Roar to recite General Yolrin’s ‘Great Empire Declaration’?”
“Oh… shoot.”
I realized that my exclamation of being caught was a confession, and I clamped my mouth shut.
But Duke Caidel was staring at me crookedly with a mischievous smile.
He was not someone to be fooled by continued denial, so I just got angry.
“Why do you know about such a thing? That’s over a hundred years old!”
“Surely, it was you who manipulated Misha.”
“What, what are you saying! I would endure any words, but… this is madness.”
Manipulate? That was petty revenge. If I had the luxury in my life to manipulate Misha, I would have grown up a better child!
I was so wronged that I unknowingly teared up. Duke Caidel, not wanting to see me cry, took a step back.
I muttered dejectedly.
“I pray every morning when I wake up not to encounter that child today. What manipulation?”
“Hmm.”
I asked cautiously, guilt coming late.
“Don’t tell me everyone… knows?”
“There were one or two more students besides me who wondered why a student would recite an ancient general’s departure declaration during a casual friendship party of classmates.”
“Phew. I changed the latter part a bit.”
“Chk… Chk.”
When he laughed, hiding the sound, his black hair, dark as the night in the shadowy garden, fluttered. From his hair, a luster shone like the stars.
He laughed refreshingly, without reservation.
I felt the calm and warmth of this moment was absurdly out of place, and I laughed too. Silently, but with a body as if guffawing.
But we couldn’t keep laughing. The night was short.
Even if we happened to laugh together at this moment, it was merely a coincidence, and the distance between us was far and wide.
I picked up my bag and gradually moved away from him, and Duke Caidel, noticing, clicked his tongue loudly. I dropped my bag in surprise.
“Why did you do that?”
Why indeed? I thought about it too.
Could I make a stranger understand today’s actions, and the past life that led to them, in a few brief words?
That seemed beyond my ability. So all I said was this.
“I hate her. Misha.”
Hate. How paltry that word sounded.
But Duke Caidel frowned.
“Misha? What are you talking about now?”
“……?”
“You insulted me in a letter, Miss Lorisha. I cannot overlook this situation.”
“……!”
He had discovered the profanity I’d hidden in Misha’s love letter.
Of course, it was wrong to hide a curse in the letter like a code. But who would have thought someone would find it!
But even if it was found, they should suspect Misha, why come after me!
It was clear that Duke Kaidel was certain I was the culprit through a process I could not guess.
So he came to search my room at the count’s house under the pretext of a party.
I involuntarily swallowed my saliva.
Wow, what a creepy guy. Smart on top of being talented. Good for you!
I had no way out. I was caught redhanded.
“Insult? What insult?”
As I looked at him, my eyes twinkling like stars, he was taken aback, breathless.
“Ha! Miss Lorisha, you…”
“But I remember never allowing Your Grace to use my name. Calling me Miss Lorisha while speaking words I don’t understand, it seems, um, rude. A bit.”
I stumbled over my tongue, but I tried to keep a brazen face, acting as if nothing was wrong. There’s no evidence, no evidence.
The only evidence was the pang of conscience, stabbing one side of my chest like a stick…
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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