She thought to herself that this was a big deal.
Methodically, she needed to clarify her thoughts and explain everything to make him understand. But her urgency made her keep skipping explanations.
“Duke, what I mean is…”
Hestia swallowed dryly, looking at Aslan’s back.
His neck seemed even more tense and stiff than before.
Rough sounds of friction came continuously from his gauntlet-clad hand, sending chills down her spine.
“Really…”
After a silence, a growl-like sound escaped from Aslan, like a beast’s deep growl.
Then, suddenly, the tension in his body relaxed. Aslan let out a cynical smirk.
“A pointless conversation.”
Slowly, Aslan turned back around.
The look on his face, as he gazed at Hestia, seemed inexplicably drained of strength.
His face, filled with humiliation, seemed to crack.
For a brief moment, Hestia glimpsed a hurt man beneath that facade, which made her hesitate.
“A complete waste of time.”
With those barely audible words, Aslan turned and left the audience chamber.
This time, unlike before, Hestia was completely unable to call him back due to his swift departure.
Left alone in the empty space, Hestia unconsciously relaxed her tightly clenched lips.
‘I was too emotional.’
She blamed herself.
‘No, I can’t let this happen. Otherwise, I’ll be forced into an engagement with Sir Stefan again.’
Aslan Kalati was an indispensable card to her.
He was the only man in the country whom both King Yorgos and the temple watched cautiously.
“It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have treated Aslan that way.”
She regretted her actions too late, although she knew it was a futile afterthought.
Strangely, it was hard for her to maintain her composure in front of Aslan as she did with others. His disregard for her was unbearable, even though she had always been the one to avoid him.
‘Thank you for letting me live in a delusion.’
Maybe the delusion was not his but hers – that one day, even if he was cold now, he would take her hand if she reached out sincerely.
‘I must be crazy.’
She was overwhelmed with confusion, unable to settle her emotions.
The gap between the voice that tenderly called her in her last moments in the previous life and the hostility in his voice now… it hurt her heart.
“Will he come to the welcome party?”
She couldn’t ignore Yorgos’s request, but Aslan, a man who disliked such occasions, seemed unlikely to attend.
A heavy sigh escaped her lips.
‘I need to think… think of another way to meet him.’
But as always, pushing away the overwhelming presence of Aslan in her mind was no easy task.
Aslan entered his capital residence with a stern face.
Every servant who encountered his unusually grim expression instinctively shuddered.
Only the butler, Robert, and Aslan’s closest aides from the Black Lion Squad, Dean and Martin, managed to maintain a facade of composure.
The three men quickly followed behind Aslan.
“Your Grace, what happened? You’re back from the palace, please tell us what’s bothering you!”
“Did the temple or the royal family use the saint again to speak some nonsense to you?”
The aides looked as if they themselves had been insulted, already displaying signs of outrage.
“Enough. It’s noisy.”
Aslan lightly dismissed the followers with a wave of his hand.
Understanding his desire to be alone, the aides stopped their pursuit without complaint, allowing him some space.
Certainly, here is the English translation of the Korean paragraph you provided, following your guidelines:
“However, only one person, Robert, the butler of the Kalati Mansion, followed him persistently and stealthily entered the room.
“Your Highness, what about dinner?”
“I have no plans. If I feel like eating something, I will call again.”
“Yes, understood. Please rest then.”
Even though Aslan didn’t look, the butler, who had bent his waist as if respectfully, silently left Aslan’s room, leaving no trace.
As the sound of the door closing behind him was heard, Aslan finally threw the helmet he had been holding carelessly.
It was the moment when the thin thread of reason he had been barely holding onto snapped.
The sound of the helmet hitting the floor echoed, and then Aslan’s lips twisted.
“What? Marriage?”
He was far from calming down.
His broad chest rose and fell irregularly and violently.
“How dare you… tell me something like that.”
To suppress his anger, Aslan closed his eyes tightly.
As his anger gradually subsided, as always, Hestia’s face came to his mind.
This time, more vividly than usual. It was because he had just seen her face up close a while ago.
Hestia had become a complete woman unlike when she was young.
All the lines that made up her beautiful face, Aslan could draw them in his mind as if he were a painter.
The thin, almost fragile lines that seemed to crumple at any moment, and when he painted her colors on them, Aslan felt a subtle warmth gathering.
“…Damn woman.”
Aslan’s lips released a harsh curse, and hot breath flowed long.
He was going to suffer through another endless night, unable to make sense of it.
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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