The Maid's Contract Marriage (1 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 289
Arthur and Reina’s story still captured the attention of many people.
Newspapers continued to churn out fictionalized essays disguised as nonfiction and entertainingly exaggerated memoirs, enjoying an unprecedented boom in newsletter sales never seen before in history.
A policy had somewhat solidified as a guideline: as long as real individuals’ names weren’t explicitly used, it was acceptable. The imperial family and the involved parties and their advisors maintained a stance of “it’s merely fiction,” neither confirming nor denying anything.
Silence was interpreted as tacit permission.
As people actively bought newsletters for precisely that reason, more than half of each issue became filled with serialized fiction.
Essays in the style of historical anecdotes or memoirs, as well as epistolary novels emphasizing romantic appeal, proved most popular. Occasionally, astonishingly refined works of genuine literary merit emerged, moving readers to tears and deeply touching their hearts.
These touching, heartfelt works stirred public excitement even further by hinting at the possibility that they might contain some truth.
Most of these works shared a similar underlying premise.
They asserted there had been deception by the Marquis during Arthur’s political marriage arrangement and that the legendary bride who saved them from the terrorist attack wasn’t Christina, but rather a mysterious woman of a status akin to their illegitimate child.
This matter became an unwritten rule in high society—like the emperor’s affair—something discreetly agreed upon not to be spoken of aloud.
People naturally wished to protect a hero who had vulnerabilities, and the nobility, too, held such loyalty and grace in high esteem.
Of course, there were always those who derived pleasure from mocking others’ weaknesses. Yet minor malice couldn’t shake those who quietly focused on their own duties.
Reina and Arthur had far more important matters to attend to and numerous people who supported them.
And around that time, new news arrived.
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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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