As the bitter liquid surged back to fill his mouth, the Duke vomited it out onto the table. It wasn’t a bitter liquid but blood. Watery, dark red blood.
The guards quickly placed their hands on the sword handles.
But before they could draw their swords, a chilly wind brushed past their necks, freezing them in place.
To confirm the identity of the shiny object they had just passed, they rolled their eyeballs.
Four blades were stuck in each of their carotid arteries, not even a centimeter away from the walls, quivering and trembling.
“If you take one more step from there, I’ll move it an inch to the side for you.”
In Hershis’s hand, newly grasped silver blades gleamed as she threw out a chilling warning.
For the first time, human fear crossed their faces.
Having successfully bound the guards to the wall, Hershis turned her attention back to her uncle, placing the dagger against the blade and spoke.
“Don’t worry. I won’t kill you instantly.”
She spoke to her convulsing uncle as if consoling a crying child. But in that moment…
“Cough!”
The Duke once again spat blood onto the floor.
Hershis looked down at it silently, tilting her head as if something was strange.
“Oh, it’s progressing faster than I thought? It shouldn’t bleed so soon.”
“…….”
“Tsk. Can’t be helped.”
He expressed regret that the other party would die before fully hearing his words.
“There’s something I’ve wanted to say for a while. I didn’t like the way you handled things, Uncle.”
“…….”
“Do you really need to be so meticulous in plotting the death of a single person? Feeding vegetables grown with poison for ten years, pretending to be concerned like when a horse gets excited after feeding it an excitement-inducing drug. I don’t think like that.”
“…….”
“If it were me, I’d rather kill them at once and handle the aftermath thoroughly.”
Instead of a reply, the Duke once again vomited blood. This time, it was a bit more, and the fresh blood was even redder.
The Duke, struggling to speak, finally managed to open his mouth.
“You… What… are you doing to me…”
“Me? I just…”
Hershis tilted her head to the side, then suddenly wore a proud expression.
“I was just telling Baroness Berium about the attitude parents should rightfully have toward their children.”
“…….”
“But she seemed to understand too much. I told her to put just one drop of wine…”
Only then did the Duke realize everything. Claire Berium, that foolish girl, had completely betrayed him!
“You… Hers… You… miserable wretch…! Even if you… do this… you won’t… survive…”
The Duke drew a finely forged dagger from his chest, but it couldn’t linger long in his shaking, blackened hands.
With a clattering sound, the fallen dagger reflected sunlight, drawing a silvery pattern on the ceiling.
“I recommend staying still if possible, Uncle.”
Hershis gazed at the Duke’s face, now turned red from the gushing blood, as if enjoying the spectacle.
“If you keep struggling, the poison will spread faster. Wouldn’t you want to avoid that?”
“…….”
“But it’s fortunate, isn’t it? You have an antidote for your uncle.”
At the mention of the antidote, the Duke’s eyes sharpened.
“It was sent to you wrapped in a golden cloth on the day of the wedding.”
“……!”
The Duke recalled a fragment of his memory.
‘Oh, right. There was something like that.’
However, no matter how famous the remedy was, he couldn’t be sure whether it was safe to ingest it.
Sent by that woman.
Even in his desperation, when the Duke expressed doubt, Hershis shook her head with a mocking expression.
“There won’t be time to think it through. Uncle, you know well about this poison, right? If you vomit two more times… Organs will melt, and the heart will burst. The Duke knew too well. If you want to turn me into a depraved niece who poisoned her uncle, you can stay that way. Well… what’s the use of that after Uncle dies, I wonder.”
While Hershis taunted, the Duke once again felt something boiling inside him and blocked his mouth. Once again, fresh blood seeped through his fingers.
There was no time for contemplation, as Hershis had pointed out. Turning with a glance that seemed to anticipate the future, he stumbled due to blurry eyes and a distant mind. He staggered, colliding here and there, and eventually shattered an antique ceramic on the console.
Observing his actions, Hershis couldn’t contain her laughter, as if unable to stand it any longer. Laughter rang out coolly, as if trying to purify the space filled with the stench of blood.
And the Duke’s guards, who were watching him, now looked like ordinary people. Faces expressing bewilderment as if to say, ‘What kind of lunatic is this?’… Just ordinary people.
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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