Stella looked at Johann with clear, blue eyes.
‘The look in her eyes is as if she’s met a lover from whom she’s been long parted.’
Stella soon shyly lowered her long eyelashes and hid again behind the male priest.
The priest standing before Stella opened his mouth on her behalf.
“The Holy Lady is not used to the outside and is very shy. Please be considerate.”
I examined Stella’s innocent face without letting it show.
‘I’m not seeing things.’
No matter how I looked, she was indeed Estelle Libertan.
The long, honeydripping golden hair, pure and innocent features like morning sunlight, and the noble poise of a princess trapped within a tower.
It was just as I had seen her in my dreams.
‘So this is what that dream was trying to tell me.’
Estelle Libertan, whom I thought was dead, is alive.
‘How can she be alive?’
I never thought of it.
‘Did the Duke and Duchess Libertan deceive me?’
But the sorrow of the Duke and Duchess Libertan, who had lost their daughter, was real.
‘What bothers me most.’
I observed the reactions around me.
Everyone seemed unable to recognize Estelle from the Holy Lady’s face.
‘This isn’t a normal reaction.’
They would have all seen Estelle’s childhood portrait. Similar appearance, even the name is similar.
‘How can I be the only one to recognize her?’
I thought of various situations.
‘Or maybe I’m just overreacting.’
Then Holy Lady Stella pulled the priest’s sleeve and whispered softly to him.
“I guess I came here in vain.”
Loud enough for everyone in the room to barely hear.
“Where could that be, Holy Lady? Everyone is welcoming you.”
“But it seems they are uncomfortable with me.”
Stella’s sullen gaze briefly brushed past me.
Then everyone, including the priest, looked at my face.
‘Is she really as shy as the priest says?’
Just as I was about to respond with a smile.
“I’ve found the priest.”
Johann answered before me.
“Estelle’s body is weak, so it seemed necessary to have a high priest come.”
He completely ignored what the Holy Lady had just said with an attitude. The Holy Lady’s face brightened at Johann’s response.
“Duke Blanche is very considerate.”
Stella covered her mouth and laughed softly.
“Perhaps my coming to the House of Blanche was a call of fate.”
“Is that so?”
Johann tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.
“I find it inconvenient for the Holy Lady to come to my house.”
“Yes?”
“Didn’t you hear what I just said?”
Stella, blinking her eyes wide, pulled at the priest’s sleeve, not knowing what to do.
“Be, Berto……. ”
“It’s okay, Holy Lady. I will handle it.”
Priest Berto politely answered Johann.
“Did you not ask us for the treatment of the Duchess, Your Grace? It’s hard on the Holy Lady if you act like this.”
“I find your reaction funny.”
“What exactly is the problem, so that—”
“Do I have to point it out one by one?”
Johann twisted his lips into a smile.
“What I did was not a request but a deal. Bluntly speaking, it was a command and threat.”
“……. ”
“To openly say such a thing, and hope it wasn’t heard, isn’t it funny?”
“……. ”
“It will be difficult if you continue to annoy me.”
Priest Berto trembled, clenching his fist.
But Priest Berto apologized to Johann on behalf of the Holy Lady.
“I’m sorry. It seems the Holy Lady misunderstood, as this is her first visit to a noble’s house. We will be more careful in our behavior.”
“There won’t be a next time.”
Johann lifted me up and went into the mansion.
‘Is it okay to go in like this?’
Behind me, I heard Stella say, ‘I’m fine, I should have behaved in a way that pleased the Duke more……’
Honestly, I could understand why the temple side was not convinced.
‘Even from my point of view, Johann’s behavior was excessive.’
Though I was surprised to see the Holy Lady as Estelle, she did nothing wrong.
If anything, this could lead to a bad rumor that the House of Blanche has snubbed the Holy Lady they had invited.
I looked up at Johann and asked.
“Johan. Were you greatly inconvenienced by the priests?”
“Why is that?”
“Usually, Johan wouldn’t go to such lengths.”
Instead of answering, Johan looked at me inquiringly.
“Are you alright?”
“Me?”
“I wasn’t greatly inconvenienced. But I could feel that you were uncomfortable.”
I tried to hide my embarrassment as much as possible, but it seemed I couldn’t hide it even from Johan, who was close by.
“On top of that, it seemed like the saint oddly ignored you and greeted only me.”
It’s something that can be taken lightly.
Like what I experienced at the Count of Hetel’s house, the saint was not blatant.
It was something most people would have simply let go of.
‘But Johan didn’t let it go…….’
He stepped forward and warned the saint and the temple.
At that moment, I realized I had been uneasy since I saw the saint.
“At times like this, it’s better if I step forward rather than you. I have many things to use.”
The red eyes that met mine softly curved.
“So if the saint makes you even a little uncomfortable, tell me. Understand?”
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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