‘It feels oddly lonely.’
For at least the next three days, maybe up to a week, we had to stay here.
Since he got on the carriage, he had been silent until now.
‘What is he thinking about?’
Entering right away seemed less ventilated.
I held his hand and left the stone path.
“Let’s take a walk before we go!”
He, who lifted his head unexpectedly, followed me.
‘It’s the first time seeing him like this.’
Kasha, who was usually stubborn, was behaving obediently.
Suddenly, a strange self-confidence surged, and my steps quickened.
After walking for a while, laughter was heard from behind.
“My breath is too rough. What were you thinking, taking me to such a secluded place?”
“I wasn’t thinking about anything!”
“What on earth are you trying to do in such a secretive place…?”
Am I being targeted?
After hearing those words, I looked ahead, and it was completely dark.
‘We’ve left the garden!’
I unnecessarily got too far due to tension.
Hastily, I turned my body and led him back towards the garden.
“Just relax for a moment!”
“Too bad.”
Ignoring his words, we arrived at a suspended bridge across the lake.
‘I should’ve been looking out for Kasha, but I got distracted.’
I had to reflect on this.
Once again, there was silence.
But the air felt lighter than before.
‘Tomorrow is the Saintess’s celebration.’
The first blessing of the Saintess was eating the food made by Elias.
Moreover, all the invited families had to prepare a dish.
‘I need to prepare something too.’
For the honored families, having the Emperor and Empress eat their food was an honor.
In a way, it was similar to being chosen.
‘Should I make bulgogi? Or perhaps japchae?’
Both were festive dishes, so it should be fine.
I didn’t particularly want distinguished people to taste what I made, but…
‘What if they dislike it?’
If I were to present something, I had to be sure.
It was time to think about the food.
The Emperor’s gaze from earlier kept flickering in my mind.
‘Seemed like he saw me for sure.’
Even for quite a while.
The fact that he looked away as soon as our eyes met was evidence.
Understanding the Emperor’s intentions was difficult.
Even in the original work, his importance wasn’t significant. At most…
‘Died from an illness during the continent-wide war?’
Moreover, he left without choosing a successor.
‘There’s a succession order, but whether he received support from the Emperor or not is crucial.’
That meant there was an opportunity for other imperial family members.
Some tried to seize the succession right during the war but failed.
All of this had a significant impact on Micael becoming the Emperor.
‘He won’t start a war. Kasha won’t do that.’
While organizing my thoughts, the night snow started falling.
There was a yellowish light twinkling throughout the garden.
Fireflies.
Kasha was also looking at the fireflies.
Like me, he was lost in thought.
When I stared at him, his closed mouth opened.
“Do you know about my mother going insane, the former Empress?”
If he mentioned the former Empress, he was probably referring to Viviaana, Kasha’s mother.
Everyone knew the story of her suddenly going insane after receiving the Emperor’s deep love.
“Yes. Suddenly… she had problems with her memory.”
She couldn’t recognize the Emperor and even her own child from one day to the next.
There were also stories of her trying to escape from the Empress’s palace every day, fearing her body would be tied up.
“My mother is a possessed person.”
“…What?”
At that moment, the shawl that had been wrapped around me fell to the ground with a thud.
“I knew when I saw the soup you made for my birthday. It resembled what my mother used to make.”
The taste, color, everything was different, but it was undoubtedly the same food.
He confessed as if unburdening himself.
‘Well, that means she went crazy.’
In reality, it wasn’t madness but a change of people.
If it was an unwanted possession?
If he wanted to return immediately…
My head grew cold.
Even if that were true, the Emperor probably had no idea.
“The Emperor feels guilty about the former Empress. Quite amusing, really.”
The Emperor’s decree had led to the former Empress, Viviana, being deposed.
Afterward, there was a concubine named Wyeno.
“She claimed that the Emperor was possessed by a demon, manipulated him, and insisted on protecting Viviana from the surroundings.”
The rumor that the Empress had gone mad brought unwelcome attention.
Wyeno’s argument was as follows:
Depose her and keep her on the tower for protection.
Whisperings that when she regained her sanity, she could be reinstated on the throne.
The Emperor got entangled in this proposal.
Little did he know that this would be the last of Empress Viviana.
“She isn’t dead. She just disappeared.”
Nowhere could the Empress’s body be found.
‘Perhaps she returned to the original world.’
Having achieved something, she might have gone back as a price.
“The Emperor’s protection of Empress Wyeno is because he believes she shares the same guilt.”
Kasha let out a bitter laugh.
In reality, he wanted to share the guilt. Quite amusing.
The Emperor was still searching for the Empress.
The Empress whom he had discarded and betrayed.
“The Emperor tried to confine me afterward.”
After Viviana disappeared, the Emperor became increasingly unstable.
The child she left behind was in a state of unpredictability.
Ultimately, the Emperor made a choice that should not have been made.
“If he had considered me his child, he shouldn’t have done that.”
Instead of trying to fill this leash, it would have been better to kill or abandon me on the outskirts.
I embraced him silently.
Even when I confirmed the children had returned and went to bed, Kasha’s words from the garden remained unforgettable.
‘If Viviana was truly a possessor.’
What happens to the borrowed body of the possessor?
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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