It was quite a walk to the marketplace near the stable. I only followed the shades and saw the Marsen mansion on a distant hill.
Father would not be at the mansion since it’s a weekday morning. I was just curious about what the other maids and employees I had grown fond of were doing. After staring at the mansion for a while, I entered the marketplace, my shoulders sagging from the heat.
The crowd made it even hotter.
“…Huh?”
I spotted a shop. It looked like they were having an event at the doll store Felicia often visited. There were various animal dolls displayed outside, from bears to rabbits. But what caught my eye was a fairy doll.
It was a green doll. It screamed Yurik’s taste. I stood in front of the doll store as if enchanted and stared intently at the fairy doll.
“…Should I gift this to Yurik?”
“Don’t you want it for yourself?”
I was startled by the voice I heard. As I turned around, a man with a scar on one eye was smiling.
“…”
I knew who he was.
“Hello, Miss? Long time no see.”
“…”
He was the man I had met when I was lost in the alley last time. Unlike then, he now looked neat and tidy. Was he actually of a respectable status?
“How have you been, little Miss?”
He acted as if he knew me from before. Without waiting for my reply, the man glanced at the fairy doll.
“Do you like this doll, Miss? You’ll take it, right?”
“…Yes.”
“Really?”
“…Yes.”
“A lie.”
I wanted to end the conversation quickly, so I replied briefly. But the man was sharp. He caught my lie and chuckled.
“Shall I buy it for you?”
“No, it’s okay.”
“Why? I have plenty of money.”
Even so, I didn’t want it. Despite my refusal, the man took the doll and went into the store to buy it.
I wanted to say it’s fine and return it, but he refused.
“It’s a secret in exchange for the events that happened in the alley, you haven’t told anyone, right?”
Was the gift to keep my mouth shut? The man bent over to look into my face.
“I haven’t told anyone…”
“Sounds like a truth. That’s good, you’re a good Miss.”
“…Would something bad happen if I did?”
“Maybe? If you had gossiped, instead of the doll, I would’ve given you something else, right?”
I wanted to ask what that was.
“Lise!”
From afar, Roger’s voice calling for me was heard. The man straightened up, put his hands in his pockets, and stepped away.
“Then goodbye, Miss. See you next time.”
Next time?
Before I could ask, the man turned away. As I debated whether to ask if we’d meet again, Roger grabbed my shoulder from behind.
“What are you doing here?”
“Huh? Ah… Nothing.”
“What’s with the doll? You don’t like this sort of thing… Is it for Yurik Fenton?”
Roger’s eyes narrowed. Caught, I wondered how to fumble an answer when I noticed the violin case behind Roger.
“Wait, why are you here?”
“Is it wrong for me to be here?”
“Today is your violin lesson. You should be headed to the Bakers’ mansion right now…”
“So you’re going to see me and buy that rock of a gift, huh? Right?”
The kid is pouting.
“Of course, Roger, I was planning to buy something for you, too.”
“…Really?”
He immediately cheered up. Such a naive guy.
“Yeah, really. But why are you here?”
“Mom said we have guests at the mansion, so I should go to the Marsen mansion. I’ll be practicing my violin there today.”
“Ah, practicing at our house is a bit impossible right now.”
The mansion was a mess, and there was no space to practice the violin. Struggling for an explanation, I remembered the letter I had put in my violin case.
“Ah, and I have to deliver a letter to Mrs. Baker. Mom asked me to.”
“Your mom?”
At Roger’s question, I nodded.
Since Isabel and Mrs. Baker had awkwardly parted last time, there had been no interaction between them. Roger, perhaps concerned about that, showed immediate interest when he heard Isabel had written a letter.
“Then let’s go to mom right away. Delivering a letter should be fine.”
“Really?”
“As we head to the village, you can also buy the gift you intended for me. There’s a carriage up ahead; let’s ride my carriage.”
Now I found myself having to buy an unplanned gift for Roger. Fortunately, I hadn’t bought Yurik’s doll with my own money, so there was enough left to buy Roger’s gift.
And on the way to the mansion, I could also explain what had been going on. The distance to Roskoff village, where the Bakers lived, was farther than Marsen village, so Roger would be upset…
To appease him, I decided I would buy Roger an expensive gift.
Roger and I climbed into the carriage together and headed for Roskoff village, where the Bakers resided.
The carriage was hot and sticky, but…
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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