“When Rachel was about to return, Jacob divorced Marianne. Jacob said he divorced Marianne and sent her to the countryside for adultery, but Marianne never reached the Wood Baron’s mansion.”
The powerless Wood Baron did not dare ask Duke Bronthe about his daughter’s whereabouts. He probably guessed what had happened but kept silent, knowing that speaking would mean death.
Rachel, who returned and remarried Jacob after giving birth to Ariana, quickly became pregnant again and gave birth to Victoria.
But Helena was Rachel’s sore point.
“It must be painful. Helena, who is of Western Emperor’s bloodline, is reduced to being merely the offspring of a rural baron.”
“That’s why she seems to favor Helena more than Victoria, the third child.”
Rachel told Helena the truth when she was old enough to keep a secret.
Helena, who learned the truth, chose to hate Ariana rather than resenting Rachel and Jacob.
She thought she had to live as Marianne’s daughter and couldn’t reveal her bloodline as the Western Emperor’s because of Ariana. Ariana didn’t wish to be born this way either.
“Why are you telling me all this?”
“I’m interested in what you’re planning to do.”
“I have no intention of doing anything.”
“Really?”
“Yes, Your Highness. I’m merely a woman who can’t even be treated as a princess.”
Ariana pushed his chest with both hands, and his palms, which had been holding her back, fell easily.
Ariana took a step back, looked up at him, and spoke in a composed manner.
“I’ve enjoyed the onceinalifetime honor of meeting Your Highness, the Northern Emperor.”
“Once in a lifetime, you say. Does that mean you never want to meet me again?”
“You should have the manners to pretend not to know if you understood, Your Highness.”
“If you’ve heard rumors about me, you would have heard that I have no manners.”
“Rumors are just rumors; I only believe what I see and hear.”
“So what do you think of me, having seen and heard for yourself?”
It seemed that Cyrus had no intention of letting Ariana go like this.
Ariana sighed and answered.
“How dare I evaluate Your Highness? However, the infinite honor is too much for me even once; I’m very tired, so I will go back.”
She tried to quickly lift her foot to leave before he could hold her back.
“Second Princess of Bronthe.”
Ariana stopped at a title she had never heard in either her past or present life and glared at him.
His quietly still blue eyes seemed to flare up with fire, and Cyrus watched silently.
“I am neither Bronthe nor a princess.”
“Then what should I call you?”
“Something, anyway.”
A fleeting smile crossed Ariana’s lips and then disappeared.
“You won’t need to call, will you?”
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Cyrus no longer held her back.
Only after Ariana’s footsteps disappeared as she left the kitchen and walked down the hallway did he come out of the storeroom.
Sitting on a tree outside the storeroom, Isaac had a look on his face as if he had seen something he shouldn’t have.
“Cyrus……. What on earth did you do?”
Isaac couldn’t believe what he had seen with his own eyes.
Cyrus had entered the storeroom, where there was no need to go, chatted with Ariana, where there was no need to converse, and pulled Ariana close to use concealment magic, where there was no need to be so close.
Furthermore, even though Ariana was clearly showing her displeasure, he continued to act like a flirt from the lower streets, and had even spilled all the secrets of the Bronthe family that he had discovered with difficulty.
It was shocking to see Ariana so cold, even with Cyrus in front of her, but more than that, Isaac thought his heart had dropped at the sight of Cyrus’s attitude, which he had never seen before. No, perhaps it had already fallen and rolled far away.
Cyrus’s attitude towards Ariana was so extraordinary.
Unlike Isaac, who was astonished, Cyrus was calm.
“That woman has value to be used.”
That answer didn’t satisfy Isaac either.
Just because she has value to be used, you deceive her and blabber secrets? The Cyrus Carha of the world?
What kind of person is Cyrus?
If she has value, he has the character to extract what can be used, even through torture, regardless of age or gender.
There was no reason why Cyrus, who could even threaten the Emperor with a sword if necessary, couldn’t do that to a woman treated as a maid in the Bronthe family.
But now, he was fussing around and then mentioning her use value, actions he would never usually take.
“Are you hurt somewhere? Is the imperial water not agreeing with you?”
Isaac was so confused that he worried about Cyrus’s health.
Cyrus, sensing Isaac’s gaze, asked,
“Why?”
“Do you feel a little off? Is your head hurting or something?”
“I’m in my right mind.”
Cyrus knew what Isaac was thinking but did not make excuses to alleviate his concerns.
Normally, Cyrus would have grabbed Ariana’s throat and threatened her to spit out what she knew.
But Ariana didn’t seem like someone who would easily reveal her hand if he did that.
He didn’t know why he thought that way about a mere 16yearold girl.
Ariana didn’t seem like an ordinary girl.
Except for a brief moment when her eyes met Cyrus’s and her pupils shook, Ariana remained cool and composed throughout.
Even someone who has been through everything would not have been able to act so calmly in front of the ‘Emperor of the North.’
“[Dash]””I never thought Your Highness, the Emperor of the North, would visit Duke Bronthe at this time. If I had known, everyone would have gone out to meet you.”
The moment he saw her hide her surprise and even mock him, he was convinced that Ariana had something.
So he mentioned the secret of Helena’s birth, which was hard to find out but not very useful, and Ariana seemed to already know the truth.
The fact that a girl trapped in a mansion and being abused knew a secret that the Emperor of the West, Rachel, and Jacob had carefully hidden was not a situation to be taken lightly.
If he could obtain what Ariana was hiding, it would make it easier to deal with the Emperor of the West and the Emperor of the East in the future.
‘If it’s useless, then I can throw it away when the time comes.’
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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