The next day.
Marvin visited with a chubbier medical bag than usual.
“We have something to talk about privately.”
“Yes, Miss Adel.”
“It might take a while, so make sure no one comes in before I call.”
“Understood.”
Just like yesterday, Henry took the people out of the reception room.
As soon as they left, Marvin quickly locked the door and turned around.
Clang!
With a tense face, he wiped the sweat flowing on his forehead and said,
“The surgery will take about an hour.”
“I see.”
“After the wound heals to some extent, we will look at the condition and do it once more.”
“Do it once more?”
“Because it’s safe and the prognosis is good.”
He took out surgical tools wrapped in white cloth from his medical bag. The wellsterilized instruments gleamed eerily and starkly as they caught the midday sunlight.
“Will it… hurt a lot?”
Adel’s stomach churned as she looked at those stark tools, even though she had mentally prepared herself.
Then Marvin handed her a red potion.
“Drink this. It will numb your nerves and lessen the pain. You’ll feel a bit dazed for a while, but you’ll recover in an hour or two.”
Adel hesitated for a moment before taking the potion, closing her eyes tightly, and downing it all at once.
“Let’s begin.”
“Then the dress…”
“Ah, the dress. Yes, I must take off the dress…”
Adel tried to calmly undo the strings and hooks of her dress, but her hands trembled uncontrollably.
It’s okay. I’ve been through worse. This will end it all.
Just then.
Knock, knock.
A common knocking sound made Adel and Marvin jump in surprise.
“I told you not to let anyone in!”
In her confusion, Adel’s voice came out hoarse.
Henry’s polite voice came from outside the door.
“It’s… Her Majesty the Empress has sent someone.”
(This is a time divider.)
“We’re here, Miss.”
At Tanya’s words, Adel opened her eyes with difficulty. Even though it was a short distance from Marvel Palace to the Imperial Palace, she had dozed off in the carriage.
The Empress had always hated Adel. Maybe it was because of the rumors surrounding her, but she always looked at her as if she were a terrible villain. Moreover, she must have hated her even more for taking Christine, who had been slated to be April’s fiancé.
Throughout the engagement ceremony, her eyes were filled with hostility.
To refuse the summons of such an empress would not have passed quietly. Christine could have been troubled, so Adel decided to postpone the surgery.
“Ah, be careful!”
As Adel stumbled getting out of the carriage, Tanya quickly caught her.
The surgery was postponed, but she had already taken the medicine. She had been fine when leaving Marvel Palace, but now she was feeling dazed and having trouble keeping her body up. The medicine seemed stronger than expected.
“Are you okay?”
“Hmm, do I look a bit ill?”
“Yes, a bit.”
With that, Tanya tilted her head. Hadn’t she looked fine just this morning? But after meeting Marvin, she seemed a little off.
“It’s good. I’ll tell Her Majesty that I’m sick and just say hello and leave.”
“That would be best.”
“Support me well. Make it look like I’m an extremely ill patient.”
“Don’t worry!”
Tanya supported Adel more firmly under her armpit and led her to the Imperial Palace.
When they arrived at the Empress’s reception room, the maids were waiting to meet Adel.
“Welcome, Miss Adel.”
“Hello. I have come at the summons of Her Majesty the Empress.”
The maids answered, looking embarrassed.
“Oh dear, what should we do? Her Majesty has temporarily left due to urgent business. Would you wait for a while in the reception room?”
“Then I’ll come back later.”
Adel’s vision was now spinning, and her sight had even become blurred. Fortunately, she had been told that the effects of the medicine would wear off in an hour or two, so she could come back then.
“That would be nice, but Her Majesty’s schedule is packed later on. So please just wait a little bit. She’ll be back soon.”
Since the maids went so far as to say this, Adel had no choice.
“Yes, then.”
She was about to enter with Tanya’s support when the maids blocked Tanya’s way.
“The maid shall wait outside.”
“Excuse me? But my mistress is feeling extremely unwell right now.”
Tanya tightly gripped Adel’s arm, insisting that they couldn’t let go, when a shout of disapproval rang out.
“How dare a wench like you ignore the laws of the palace and think you’ll be safe!”
Adel had no choice but to free her arm from Tanya. She didn’t know if this would only end up hurting Tanya.
“I apologize. We were unaware of the palace’s laws. Allow me to make amends.”
She then consoled Tanya in a whisper.
“It might be best to wait in the carriage, Tanya.”
“Will you be alright? Your face is pale.”
“Don’t worry.”
Adel reassured Tanya and entered the reception room, guided by the maids.
(This is a time delimiter.)
The maids served tea to Adel and then left.
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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