“Don’t mention it. I was the one who offered to help.”
Their glasses clinked.
The sweet and sour taste lingered in her mouth.
Despite the champagne, questions continued.
‘Why is he helping me?’
Offering to be the Empress’s consort.
A huge disgrace for his impeccable reputation.
Just a friend, or gratitude for the expedition’s help, seemed insufficient for the risk he was taking.
A wolf’s mate is only one.
Roxan, being a wolf, knew the significance of this.
Should she ask why he offered to help?
“Sephia, Roxan…”
“Your Majesty, over here. …Oh?”
As Sephia put down her glass, the balcony door suddenly opened, revealing the Emperor and his consort.
Their gazes met Sephia and the consort’s.
But the Emperor and his consort had already entered the balcony.
The door closed with the breeze.
The four, who had maintained distance until now, found themselves in a single space.
She wished they would just turn and leave.
But the atmosphere moved contrary to Sephia’s wishes.
“So, you’re not even trying to hide it anymore.”
The Emperor, alternating his gaze between Sephia and Roxan, openly criticized them.
Specifically, targeting Sephia.
“Why should I?”
The same question she asked when she had danced with the Emperor.
Demios laughed incredulously.
“Remarkable. Have you no pride as the Empress? Or has the Duke’s name appeared on the Empress, perhaps?”
He was demanding a legitimate reason from Sephia.
Unlike her, Demios had a valid reason for having a consort.
If he was so curious about the reason, it wouldn’t hurt to tell him.
“You must be aware of the strange rumors about me.”
The rumor that the Empress calls a new male every night.
Demios was aware that all those rumors were false.
“But Your Majesty did not correct the rumors, even though you knew they were unfounded.”
Even as Sephia spoke, the Emperor did not offer any excuses.
By observing everything and not stepping in, it only endorsed the rumors.
“So, I found my own way to dispel the rumors, to preserve my dignity as the Empress.”
“……And that method involved using Duke Leopold?”
“Yes.”
Sephia’s words twisted his beautiful face in anger.
“Remarkable, Empress. I didn’t know you had such capability. This seems even worse than the rumors.”
He clearly had warned her to stay away from the Duke.
His gaze said as much.
But Sephia had no reason to distance herself from the Duke, even if it was an order from the Emperor.
The standoff between the Emperor and Empress continued.
Neither showed any sign of backing down when Roxan spoke up.
“I was the one who suggested it to the Empress.”
“……What did you say?”
“If I stepped in, no swine would dare approach the Empress disrespectfully.”
You saw it too, didn’t you?
The trash panting after the Empress.
Roxan’s eyes conveyed this message.
“I protected the nation’s mother as a member of the Empire.”
You’re the one who left the woman who should be protected unattended.
Roxan’s gaze scolded the Emperor.
Eventually, his eyes turned to Titie.
“……So, Your Majesty, it would be wise to look into the source of these rumors. Who knows where the next scandal will point.”
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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