‘His complexion is not good at all.’
Whether he skipped meals or lost weight in the past few days she hadn’t seen him, Dmitry seemed to have become much thinner. Lea’s expression darkened as she observed the duke.
“Is there something wrong with the duke? Something that could cause such a sudden shock.”
“That’s…”
As if finding it difficult to speak, Button avoided her gaze. How could he tell her that he had received a report related to Lea?
Avoiding Lea’s gaze, he mumbled in response. At that moment, Lea, who had just exhaled a short breath, spoke.
“The duke is healthy, but he is at an age where a sudden shock can be dangerous. It seems he may have high blood pressure.”
“…I’ll be careful.”
Since she couldn’t prescribe medication for high blood pressure, she first prescribed medication to stabilize his mental state. Wiping Dmitry’s forehead, covered in cold sweat, with a handkerchief, Lea said,
“I’ll be by the duke’s side today. Seeing how he continues to sweat, he might have a fever tonight. I need to keep an eye on his condition continuously.”
“No! Miss must have been quite shocked. Rest in your room. I’ll watch over the duke.”
When Butler Button volunteered to take care of the duke by her side, Lea awkwardly waved her hand. She looked at the butler with a faint smile.
“I want to do it.”
Looking at Lea’s stubbornly leaf-colored eyes, Button’s heart ached. Once again, he saw the appearance of the deceased Lady Ariel in her.
‘Even her stubbornness is so similar to the late Lady Ariel’s…’
Certainly, Anthony said that Lady Ariel’s child had died. However, if Lea wasn’t her reincarnation, she seemed to have been someone sent by the Lady for the duke.
“All right. Then, please take good care of the duke.”
Button reluctantly nodded as he watched Lea. After he left, a heavy silence descended on the duke’s bedroom. Lea, seeing Dmitry stabilizing, sighed.
‘But it’s fortunate that the situation isn’t too serious.’
Dmitry was just mentally weakened; it wasn’t a severe illness. Lea, feeling relieved, stood up from her seat to relax her tense body.
While moving her body here and there, relieving her stiff muscles, at that moment, a small portrait hanging by the duke’s bedside caught her eye.
“What’s this?”
And looking at the woman depicted in the portrait, Lea tilted her head. It was understandable because the woman drawn in the small frame looked so much like her.
She reached out towards the frame as if drawn by something. Red hair, just like Duke Belarus’s, and even bright green eyes similar to hers.
Under the portrait identical to herself was the name Ariel.
“Is she the beloved of Duke Belarus?”
Only then did Lea understand why the people at the mansion, including Duke Belarus, had been kind to her.
“They treated me well because I resembled the deceased lady.”
During the moment Lea was gazing curiously at the deceased lady, her eyes were drawn to the necklace around the lady’s neck.
She opened her eyes widely as she closely observed it.
“Oh? This necklace…”
A key-shaped necklace with a ruby embedded in it.
It was something she had possessed since she was abandoned at the orphanage. Lea touched her neck and retrieved the necklace.
“Why would the deceased lady wear this necklace?”
It looked too similar to the necklace in the portrait to be just a coincidence. With a strange feeling, Lea gently placed the frame down.
Then she suddenly noticed a music box placed beside it.
Similar to the necklace, the music box adorned with red rubies seemed somewhat out of place as the belonging of Duke Belarus.
Lea carefully picked up the delicately crafted music box.
When it was placed down, she didn’t realize it, but somehow, it emitted a strangely similar vibe to her own necklace. As if the two were a set.
While tinkering with the music box for a while, Lea discovered a keyhole in the center.
“It’s strange.”
Suddenly, her stomach began to churn, and her heart started beating loudly.
As if possessed by something, Lea pushed the end of her key-shaped necklace into the music box hole.
“Huh?”
“This can’t be happening, but why…”
As if finding its pair, with a ‘click’ sound like a lie, the lid of the music box opened. Amid the heavy silence, a gentle melody began to flow.
And at that moment, Dmitry’s closed eyes opened as if awakened.
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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