After escaping the prison, Dietrich encountered an unpleasant individual in the hallway.
“Sir, where are you rushing off to so hastily?”
The man before him was one who, unlike the always expressionless Dietrich, had a knack for turning people inside out with his constant cheerfulness.
With slicked-back blonde hair and purple eyes, he was the only heir left by the incompetent Emperor.
“……Your Highness the Crown Prince.”
The Crown Prince was Jeremy.
Though there had been many women who bore children to the previous Emperor, they all met their deaths at the hands of the Empress. The Empress who gave birth to Jeremy had drugged the Emperor into infertility, a fact he never realized until his death.
Unlike the incompetent Emperor, his only son Jeremy was as cunning as his mother, far removed from incompetence.
“It appears you’ve come from the prison.”
Jeremy scrutinized Dietrich from head to toe with a beaming smile. He seemed completely unconcerned with his father’s death.
“Where did you discard your uniform? It’s quite a rare sight to see you without it.”
“Your Highness’s concern is exceedingly unwarranted.”
At Dietrich’s words, Jeremy lightly tapped his cheek with the back of his hand. The gesture was as if he was handling a pet dog, yet Dietrich’s expression remained unchanged.
“Indeed. Excessive, as my father, the master, is dead. Aren’t you now just my dog?”
“……”
“I’ll forgive you for not wearing the uniform, with my generous spirit. But, there’s one thing I’m curious about……”
Jeremy trailed off, his eyes squinting and his mouth stretching into a wide smile. Whenever he smiled like this, something unfortunate always occurred.
“How dare you put that woman in prison without my permission? You even went as far as to enforce strict control over the prison.”
As expected, Dietrich had anticipated Jeremy would pick a fault. Manipulating an incompetent Emperor might have been easy, but Jeremy was not as gullible as the deceased ruler.
Jeremy had never liked Dietrich from the start. He was the one who had ordered his assassination shortly after the man had arrived at the palace.
Even then, Dietrich had not shown any particular skills. The mere fact that the Emperor had taken him in was enough for Jeremy to want him dead—a sentiment fitting for a bloodline of the empress who left no room for regret.
However, he had failed to assassinate Dietrich. Over a span of nearly ten years, countless attempts had been made, all in vain.
The royal knights followed Dietrich more than they did the Emperor. Dietrich’s swordsmanship, natural leadership, and charisma had made it so.
Now, as the imperial power weakened, there was nothing more threatening to Jeremy, who would sit on the next throne, than Dietrich’s military power.
“Who are you referring to when you say ‘the woman’?”
Dietrich inquired with an indifferent face.
“Do you really not know? I’m talking about the Angel of Brillion.”
“……Ah.”
Dietrich slowly closed and opened his eyes, pretending to understand late.
“It was an unavoidable action taken for the dignity of the royal family because it was clear that the imperial power would decline if the woman who assassinated the Emperor was not imprisoned.”
“Unavoidable? Are you asking me to believe that now?”
“So, what should I have done with the woman who assassinated the Emperor, as you see fit?”
“Now, you admit your own inadequacy.”
The smile vanished from Jeremy’s face in an instant.
“Really, you’re as useless as a piece of shit.”
Despite the insulting words, Dietrich’s face remained unchanging. Jeremy furrowed his brows at the sight of Dietrich’s inscrutable face, but soon relaxed and smirked.
“Speaking of which, you must have seen the Angel of Brillion in person. I’ve only heard rumors; I’ve never seen her myself.”
Dietrich gave no answer. He didn’t even seem curious about why Seliya had assassinated the Emperor, as he inquired with a sinister smile.
“How was she? Was she as beautiful as the rumors suggest?”
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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