Cryer was clinging right behind her.
If Olivia took even one step, no, half a step back, she would fall into his arms.
Looking up at the unnecessarily sharp chin of Cryer, Olivia tilted her head.
“What’s really going on?”
“What is?”
His response was so nonchalant that Olivia almost let it pass, but instead she tilted her head back, leaning her head against his chest, and asked again.
“Why are you sticking so close… wait, are you an assassin?”
“No. Besides, we’re leaving.”
“Wait, what…”
Before Olivia could say anything more, Cryer abruptly lifted her up and dashed to the ground.
The palace corridor didn’t split open like the ground of the previous night, but the speed was no less.
In the blink of an eye, Cryer, who had arrived at the office, put the stunned Olivia down on the desk.
Suddenly sitting on the desk, Olivia blinked her eyes and grimaced.
“What is it?”
“Papers, there are things to show you.”
Facing Cryer, who was clearly dodging the question, Olivia soon let out a sigh.
She thought it was strange that he wanted to just pass over it, but on the other hand, it might be something not so important to just pass over.
Olivia, bowing her head, fumbled with the documents piled up like pillars on both sides of her while sitting on the desk.
“So where to start, this one? Ah, this one.”
Finally, Olivia, who managed to pull out a few bundles of documents without toppling the pile, soon picked up a thin document.
“A servant who was walking the road at dawn… that’s done, and the dead woman was also a palace servant. And the clues about the criminal are the split ground and the cut… this information isn’t really needed either.”
Olivia, who scanned the documents in an instant, lifted her head.
“As I expected, they’ve gathered information mainly for catching the criminal. The victim is a palace servant who has worked for quite a long time, and there’s no particular resentment relationship.”
The report was as expected.
A palace servant died, and the monster was unknown.
Of course, the focus should be on catching the criminal.
But that criminal was right in front of Olivia’s eyes, and the woman who was called the victim tried to kill Olivia.
“Would it be troublesome if I declared that I did it?”
“No. Since the assassination of the royal family is an instant execution, all circumstances will be clarified, and this incident will be buried as it is.”
Looking somewhat unconvinced, Olivia tilted her head.
“Hmm.”
Olivia began to ponder, looking down at the documents.
The part about the criminal didn’t really matter.
But the circumstances of the woman who tried to attack her and died.
‘How could you do this to me! Even with that ribbonnnnn!’
The woman had said so with a voice where hatred and malice were exploding.
To harbor such a grudge, just what…
When her thoughts reached that point, Olivia suddenly crumpled the documents.
Isn’t it necessary to know? It’s already a finished case.
No matter how you look at it, it seemed to be a trivial resentment among the servants.
Although that resentment didn’t seem ordinary.
Hmm? Not ordinary?
A wrinkle formed on Olivia’s forehead.
“That mad murderer also thought it was just a passing incident, but it wasn’t.”
The man who was talking nonsense about purifying people and answering passed by in front of Olivia, who was muttering to herself.
With Olivia, who was lost in agony, in front of him, a wrinkle also formed on Cryer’s forehead.
“I can’t see.”
Olivia was moving this way and that in front of him, but because she kept her head down, her face wasn’t visible.
Of course, he could imagine her face at any time.
Down to the single hair, precisely and clearly.
But why did he have to imagine it when the real thing was right in front of him?
Cryer’s worry didn’t last long.
Thud.
“Hmm?”
As soon as the hard fingertips that were brushing Olivia’s forehead disappeared, Cryer’s forehead met hers.
As such, their foreheads were touching, and enough time passed for their warmth to hold each other.
When Olivia, who was blinking rapidly, opened her mouth.
“There.”
The load of surprise had already packed and left long ago.
Olivia, who didn’t call Cryer by his name but referred to him with a pronoun, spoke.
“Why are our foreheads touching?”
“It seemed like you were pondering. So, let’s do it together.”
At the too calm answer, Olivia almost agreed for a moment, but quickly regained her senses and asked again.
“What?”
“There was a saying among the ancestors of the Bolsheviks. Even a blank page is better when held together.”
“Well, that’s true, but…”
Should I call it brazen… No, it felt too wrong to attach the word ‘brazen’ to Cryer.
Why has he been acting so impulsively since earlier…
“Maybe because it’s small, it feels warm.”
With a laugh mixed in his soft whisper, his breath flowed into Olivia’s ear who was in a state of confusion.
Olivia’s pupils contracted for a moment.
She was disconcerted by the absurd situation until a while ago…
Why… Why is he this close?
His annoyingly handsome face was too close.
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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