“Divided?”
“Yes. One side follows Lady Lenisha, and the other wants to bring in the empress to correct the order of the imperial palace. Then, whose hand should you take, Your Majesty?”
“Obviously…”
Canary’s face clouded.
The talk of bringing in the empress had come up.
Even when Lenisha was the childless empress, people never talked like this.
Lexus was just watching the government being introduced, not challenging Lenisha’s authority.
Now this was Canary’s current situation.
“The empress can’t be.”
“Exactly! Now that Madam Turiel has agreed to help us, ask her to arrange a meeting with them. Promise to be Lady Lenisha’s support and do your best to favor her.”
“What favor can I give?”
“You could allocate the budget that goes to the empress’s palace to Hiloshain.”
Barbara blurted out whatever came to her mind.
“Or enact a welfare policy for Hiloshain. Lady Lenisha will surely have something she desires.”
Canary nodded with a persuasive face.
Her face looked much brighter than before.
Barbara looked at her with pity.
Canary was weakhearted.
Even if she hated and despised Lexus now, she was the kind of person who would melt and giggle if he was just a little nice to her.
Canary was starving for affection. Lexus had made her that way.
Expecting Canary to think ahead was difficult.
Actually, if Canary secures her position and the baby safely ascends to the successor’s position, what’s next is determined, isn’t it?
Assassination.
Killing the emperor and taking his place.
Before the emperor brings in another woman to create a new successor and pushes Canary away.
Could Canary go that far?
‘If she can’t, I must make her.’
What effort had Barbara put into making that child in her womb?
Barbara, hadn’t she driven her lover to death?
A person with a certain identity was needed, and it had to be someone tightlipped.
Among the people Barbara knew, and moreover, a man who resembled the emperor’s hair color was the only one.
Barbara personally handed him the poison.
It was an opportunity she had seized.
She had bet everything, so she had to win everything.
“So prepare for the wedding first. Then go to Madam Turiel.”
“It seems best to do as you say.”
Canary nodded.
“I’m glad you’re here, Barbara.”
Casius had stopped at the edge of a cliff.
The end of the land of Hiloshain.
Beneath that distant cliff lay a deep sea, unfathomable by human senses.
“…Was there such a place?”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Solein, who had guided Casius’s way, bowed his head.
“It is called the end of Hiloshain. That black sea is also called the last blood shed by the black snake as it died.”
Casius looked at it indifferently.
The majestic beauty was enough to induce fear.
It felt like something that could bewitch people.
“What if the two returning here take their places?”
“…They will like it. It was a place the former Duke loved.”
“The Duke?”
“Yes, that’s right. He said his heart pounded when he stood here. That he seemed to see invisible things. As if he could see the future.”
“The future….”
Casius seemed to understand that word.
Wasn’t the Duke afraid?
There were many things to take responsibility for and protect in this place.
And the Duke had chosen to protect his daughter.
Instead of abandoning himself.
‘He was human too.’
Lenisha left the choice of the place to Casius.
Casius wanted to choose the best place for the Duke and Duchess.
And he thought this was the right place.
The Duke had looked into the future here.
Lenisha would make the future the Duke envisioned.
This place was a cliff, but also the highest place in Hiloshain.
The Duke and Duchess would be able to watch Lenisha all the time.
“Let’s do it here.”
Casius dismounted from the horse with a leap.
The barren wilderness was full of the power of the black snake.
Perhaps because the sea was close, the power of the black snake seemed more rampant here than other places.
Casius bent down and touched the ground.
He could feel the wriggling power beneath his palm.
Casius slowly infused power into it.
The red snake’s power made his body hot.
Red scales sprouted over his skin, and his hair swirled in the energy.
His pupils contracted vertically, and the white part disappeared, revealing black in its place.
His sharply protruding nails dug into the ground.
Casius clenched his teeth.
“Hoo…….”
The bright red power burrowed into the ground.
Solein dumbly watched that astonishing scene.
‘The red snake and the black snake were not on good terms as brothers. But as brothers, isn’t it that sometimes they get along and sometimes they don’t? Though the two snakes do not get along, when they do, they match so well…’
Why did the story he had heard as a child come to mind?
At first, the land of Hiloshain seemed to resist, but slowly began to embrace the power of the red snake.
Fresh green leaves sprouted on the once desolate land.
It was the scent of life in Hiloshain after a long time.
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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