This was the day.
“Normally, it should go to your sister, Elzer, being the eldest. That’s alright, isn’t it, Sesenia?”
It must have been at this moment when Sesenia had expressed her own desires in the past.
‘But if I do as I did in the past today, I might again be killed by Elzer. In the end, Elzer’s mind is filled with the belief that the family belongs to her. So, I don’t need to revive the family. What I need is ‘something of my own.’ Whether the family fares well or not is irrelevant to me.’
Sesenia’s gaze shifted to Elzer, who was sitting in an armchair next to their father, leaning closely towards him.
Her expression, which had been stern, brightened.
“Yes, it’s right to give it to sister.”
In the past, Sesenia had argued at this meeting that she wanted to carry on the family. But the Duke was firm, questioning how she could take over the family at such a young age. He had called Sesenia here just to inform her.
It was his preference to give everything to Elzer, his favorite child.
Sesenia earned the right to take over the family not by speaking her mind here, but by turning around the hollow shell of a family. Despite its wealth, it was like a bottomless pot, constantly incurring expenses.
Even after fixing it, the Duke, their father, tried to give it to Elzer, who despised the hassle and passed the responsibility to her sister.
‘And after all that, she claimed it as her own when it prospered.’
Recalling Elzer, who had expressed her feelings without restraint in the prison cell before her death, Sesenia slowly nodded.
“Go ahead, take it as you please. I won’t be building up the family as I did in the past.”
“Huh? Right, Sesenia. You’ve become sensible now that you’re an adult. You’ve coveted this position for a while.”
“I know my place. It’s fine to pass the family to sister. That’s the right thing to do.”
In the past, Elzer found managing the family left to her by her father burdensome. Thus, she entrusted everything to Sesenia and busied herself with leisure.
“Alright then, let’s settle it that way. Elzer, are you okay with this?”
“Yes. If that’s father’s wish, I’ll do my best!”
Elzer’s slightly tilted head and gentle smile brought a full smile to the Duke’s face.
The Duke had always been partial between Sesenia and her sister Elzer.
‘You’re still the same, father.’
The two sisters were strikingly different, like black and white. Sesenia, with her black hair and red eyes, resembled the Duke, while her sister Elzer had brown hair and watery purple eyes.
Elzer was the spitting image of the Duke’s wife, who had passed away.
To the Duke, his late wife was his first and last love. Therefore, he favored Elzer, who strongly resembled her. Additionally, due to Elzer’s frequent illnesses from a young age, the Duke was particularly protective of her.
Even knowing this, Sesenia drew strength from the rare moments her father said, “I trust you.” She convinced herself that she wasn’t being slighted; it was just that her sister was ill, and her father needed to take extra care of her. She had to think this way to avoid feeling too miserable… Sesenia had to defend herself in this manner.
She learned to hide her emotions and trust no one but her childhood friends Ian and Lizbeth, all because of the Duke’s actions. She had to be strong. That was the only way to receive even a sliver of love from her father.
In the meantime, a world of their own seemed to have formed between Elzer and the Duke.
“Yes, yes. I will help you as much as I can, so give it a try.”
“Yes!”
Watching the two of them, lost in their own world and laughing, Sesenia waited for the right moment to interject.
“There’s just one thing I’d like to ask.”
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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