‘Surely the news must have reached him…’
Given the palace’s hierarchy, it was certain a report would have been made. Lowell, having spent a considerable time in the strict system of Operetta, could roughly predict how a massive organization like the palace worked.
Minor incidents are not reported up the chain. They try to resolve as much as they can among themselves. Reporting to higher-ups is reserved for extremely urgent matters.
Therefore, the maids would have tried everything to wake her before the Emperor was informed.
On the surface, being the first bride the Emperor chose to spare, if her death resulted from their negligence, their heads would be at stake as well.
‘No one being around means they ultimately gave up.’
By this point, it wasn’t something they could handle. To preserve her life, they must have contacted the higher-ups.
Yet Peter didn’t come, and even the room was empty, indicating her plan had failed.
‘Maybe… it was to be expected.’
Peter’s thoughts were as clear as Lowell’s palm lines a decade ago. Much changes in such a time, why not a person’s mind? Testing Peter should have ended with relying on his longing to save her life.
Knowing this, Lowell still recklessly threw herself into it. To test him, and perhaps… to see the lingering image of a boy who might no longer exist.
Lowell lifted her head, previously bowed. The setting sun streamed through her black hair.
‘In the old days, when I was sick, you often rushed to make me happy.’
They had a promised meeting place. A huge greenhouse her father built for Lowell, who couldn’t play outside.
They met there at the same time every day. So, if Lowell wasn’t in the greenhouse, it meant her condition was too critical to go outside.
Then Peter would pretend to be a boy delivering letters, donning a hat and knocking on the Hessen mansion door.
“A letter for Miss Lowell Hessen. You must read it now.”
Lowell had never received a letter before. Being frail, she had neither friends nor even close cousins. When she mentioned never receiving a letter, Peter always used this disguise to visit her.
Despite her illness, a bit of joy wouldn’t hurt.
Seeing the boy with an empty envelope, delivering his tender feelings, made her inexplicably happy, even in her feverish state. It was the only luxury the sheltered Lowell could enjoy.
So what Lowell really wanted to confirm was not ‘if she could move the Emperor’ but ‘how much of Peter from those days remained in the Emperor.’
Was the boy she loved still alive, even just a little? Did her longing still have meaning?
“…….”
The outcome was as expected. Realizing her disappointment, Lowell understood she had harbored a faint hope, foolishly so.
She didn’t come this far to be let down by such trivialities. Shaking off her thoughts, Lowell steeled her mind. There are successes and failures in everything, and this was just one of them.
‘Now that it has come to this, I need to try a different approach.’
As she thought this and was about to get up, the door suddenly burst open.
Lowell’s head snapped around as if struck by an arrow. Framed against the pouring sunset, a familiar man walked in. The moment she saw the Emperor’s frown upon seeing her, Lowell burst into laughter. The reason was simple.
The Emperor’s face no longer looked like Peter to her.
The fact was so relieving and heartbreaking. Suppressing the hatred in her calm black eyes, Lowell smiled brightly.
“Hello, Peter.”
Now, only your distressed face brings me joy.
Truly, it was fortunate.
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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