Rosé was uncertain whether her current choice was the right one.
Her original goal was to break away from the Earldom, live a modest life, and observe the downfall of Doana.
However, Grand Duke Artem kept appearing in her sight.
She had barely managed to overcome the crisis, but the thought that they might eventually kill the Grand Duke would not leave Rosé’s mind.
According to the flow of the novel, the Grand Duke would soon die. And very cruelly at that.
‘If that happens… I might have to live my whole life feeling guilty.’
She could have saved someone’s life, but turned a blind eye?
She feared that she might never be able to escape the thought ‘I killed a person’ for the rest of her life, no matter the excuse.
The remainder of her life would probably be like hell rather than modest happiness.
Rosé, frightened at the thought of getting swept up in the Grand Duke’s fate, had been worrying for the past three days.
Then, she finally decided.
To save Grand Duke Artem.
To intervene in his fate.
“Topaz is a gemstone that protects life and health.”
Contrary to her clear voice, her eyes were very grave.
“I don’t want you to die.”
At the end of Rosé’s words, the Duke’s expression froze coldly.
The cold expression brought a chill, making her spine tingle.
As if she was buried in a snowfield in the middle of a frosty winter, the chill crept up on Rosé.
‘Die, me?’
The Grand Duke seemed quite shocked by Rosé’s sudden statement.
Every time they met, Rosé surprised him with unexpected words, but this statement was not something he could easily overlook.
Rosé was taken aback by the Duke’s reaction, but she continued without pause.
“You will be executed if you go on like this. Very horribly… cruelly.”
‘I… said it.’
The die has been cast. Now the choice was the Grand Duke’s.
How would he take her words? Would he laugh at her words, or would he angrily drive her away, or…
‘Would he trust me.’
If someone suddenly told me, ‘You’re going to die soon,’ could I easily believe that person?
No, I wouldn’t.
I would dismiss that person as strange.
She too had ignored people who had said strange things in her previous life.
‘You have a ghost behind you. Let’s have a cup of tea right now……’
‘You may be in big trouble if you go on like this. I’ll give you a talisman……’
‘You committed a great sin in your previous life. I see your ancestors crying.’
Rosé looked at the Grand Duke anxiously, recalling the memories of her previous life where she didn’t even reply.
‘Somehow, it seems like my actions aren’t any different from those people.’
Asking for money as the price of life, and saying he would die soon.
From Rosé’s point of view, she was really trying to save the Duke, but for the Duke, her words might sound like nonsense.
Rosé glanced at the Grand Duke. She was hoping that Grand Duke Artem would trust her.
“……”
She had no idea what the Duke was thinking. He kept his mouth firmly shut, and was just looking at her with deep eyes.
‘Was this approach not right? I should have just borrowed money from the Grand Duke and… secretly helped from behind.’
In fact, this was one of Rosé’s options.
She had considered the method of finding out the Emperor’s plan in advance and secretly preventing the Grand Duke from dying.
‘But I’m just a countess with a name and no power… and if I get a divorce, I won’t even have a chance to look at Eric’s documents…’
In a situation where she couldn’t even spy on their plans, let alone help, she would have been in a position where she had to suck her thumb.
She did want to help him, but she certainly had no intention of sacrificing herself like a saint for the Duke, with whom she had no connection, by postponing the divorce.
It would be much easier to tell the Grand Duke about the trap she saw from the emperor’s side and work through this situation together, thought Rosé.
‘I should bring this up again after building more trust with the Grand Duke.’
When he felt more threatened by death, he would believe her words, she thought.
Rosé thought she should revoke her plan because of the Grand Duke’s unresponsive gaze.
“How interesting.”
Then, the unexpected voice of the Grand Duke was heard. Rosé’s eyes widened at his reply.
The Grand Duke was looking at Rosé with sharp eyes. Not chastising her, but with a favorable attitude.
“Do you trust my words?”
Rosé asked the Duke with a startled look, as if seeking confirmation.
Believing that she was hasty due to his lack of response, she didn’t expect him to trust her words.
The Duke stroked his chin, pondering upon Rosé’s words.
‘In the old days… it would have been difficult to understand.’
Since he was a royal, it was impossible to mess with him lightly. But after the death of Duke Bled, the Duke changed.
The trap Duke Fliche had set to get rid of me. If it hadn’t been for Rosé, I would undoubtedly have been arrested on suspicion of murdering him.
‘I thought I had warned enough for 10 years.’
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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