Unable to contain his anger, Cedric threw the items on his desk to the floor. The space beneath Cedric’s desk was littered with scattered items.
“Bring me Eric immediately!”
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Eric came to Cedric’s room.
Though Cedric’s room had been messy, it was now neatly organized. However, the air within the room was unbearably heavy.
In the room were Cedric, Eric, and Tersia.
Cedric stood looking out the window, his back to Eric. Eric stood quietly, watching Cedric.
Tersia sat between Eric and Cedric. She anxiously watched Cedric, unable to sit still.
‘Why is Cedric so angry again?’
While Cedric was one to listen to Tersia’s words promptly, no one could stop him when he got extremely angry.
Tersia did not want Eric and Cedric to drift further apart.
She did not expect them to have a warm fatherson relationship. But, at the very least, she wanted to get rid of the hostile atmosphere.
She swallowed nervously and looked at Eric with anxious eyes.
A heavy silence reigned. Tersia could not hide her nervousness, feeling like she was treading on thin ice.
“Why did you call me, father?”
Eric broke the silence and spoke first.
“……”
Cedric did not respond. Eric quietly stood, waiting for Cedric to open his mouth.
After a while, Cedric finally spoke.
“……It’s been three years since I passed on the title of Earl.”
Eric frowned at Cedric’s words. Although he had received the title of Earl, the actual authority still resided with Cedric.
Eric was not satisfied with his Earl title, which was nothing more than a facade. He looked at Cedric, sitting in his chair, with cold eyes.
Cedric’s room was the same room where the successive heads of the household conducted their business. The desk in the room, the magnificent red chair, all belonged to the head of the Wens family.
And all of it still belonged to Cedric.
Eric’s dark brown eyes flashed coldly. Despite having stepped down from the position of Earl, Cedric who still enjoyed everything was distasteful to Eric.
‘Once I have a child…… my position will become more solid.’
His reason for wanting a child was simple. A child was a means for him to obtain complete power from Cedric.
“However, you have never satisfied me.”
Cedric’s voice echoed lowly in the room. Eric’s face instantly hardened.
“But I respected you.”
Cedric slowly turned around, glaring at Eric with sharp eyes.
‘Respect?’
When had he ever respected him? Eric’s eyebrows twitched at Cedric’s seemingly nonsensical words.
“We respected your choice when you brought that wretched child as your bride. But, what happened in the end? Not only did that woman ruin the work we’d done over the past ten years, she made a mockery of our family!”
“So, we didn’t divorce?”
“You!! How dare you talk back! Looking defiantly at your father! How did we raise you! Just because you divorced Rosé, you got that destitute child pregnant!”
“What does it matter if she’s of humble birth. She’ll be the Countess tomorrow.”
Eric didn’t care about Doana’s status. What was important was that she was carrying his child.
“Who said we would accept that child as our daughterinlaw! You’re going to marry the youngest daughter of the Duke of Dikar!”
“What on earth…?”
Eric frowned at Cedric’s words. He turned his gaze to Tersia, who had personally prepared the wedding.
Tersia, seeing Eric looking at her, muttered the words she had prepared.
“Oh, it seems I’ve made a mistake. Did you think Doana was the bride for tomorrow’s wedding? I thought I told you everything, but it seems this mother has been absentminded. You’re getting married to the Duke of Dikar, my dear.”
“What?”
Eric’s eyes distorted in bafflement. He was not pleased with the idea that he had been fooled along with Doana.
He felt like a fool.
“Mother likes her very much. But what can we do? Nobility has its own rules.”
“You arranged the ceremony without telling me? A wedding where the groom doesn’t know? Mother, father must be laughing at me.”
He expressed his anger at the fact that he was getting married to the Duke of Dikar. Not because he loved Doana, but because he felt ignored.
“My dear, why do you say that? It’s not like that. In fact, we’ve been negotiating a marriage with the Duke of Dikar since before your divorce. It was their side that wanted to hold the ceremony as soon as possible.”
Tersia spoke soothingly to Eric, but he still wore a chilly look.
“I feel nothing but tricked. Why did you call Doana ‘new child’ and even made her match the dress?”
Tersia coyly covered her smiling mouth with a fan. She felt sorry for Eric, but it was quite satisfying to deceive Doana.
“I apologize if I made you misunderstand. I’ll talk to Doana well so don’t worry. And not just a countess is a new child, isn’t she? She becomes a member of our family just by becoming your wife and giving birth to a child. To me, both the Duke of Dikar and Doana are the same new children.”
Tersia continued her lie shamelessly, her eyes creased into crescents.
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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