At the Duke’s doubtful tone, everyone else shut their mouths. From here, there was a clear difference in how the others and the Duke treated me.
Though I was just a child, as Phyllene had said, the others seemed to think the same way.
But the Duke didn’t just dismiss my actions as thoughtless child’s play. As in the original, he was suspicious and cautious of everything, even if it was just a child.
‘I must not be caught.’
If I said I wanted to leave the house, I would have to reveal why I wanted to leave. That meant I would have to tell about the fact that I saw the Duke killing a servant.
“What were you doing here at this time?”
The Duke asked, urging.
“This, this!”
I quickly pulled it out of my bag and thrust it in front of the Duke.
“Fo, for you, Duke!”
It was something I had cherished and saved, but I never thought I’d use it like this.
It hurt even to offer it. But the Duke, unaware of my feelings, scowled at it.
“What is this?”
“This is… a cookie, right?”
The bluehaired man said. The Duke was merely staring blankly at the cookie in my hand.
I tried to speak as calmly as possible.
“I brought it for you, Duke!”
[This is a time separator.]The child may not have known, but Kyllius had watched the child living in the Duke’s house several times.
He could see the child, who often followed Sophia to the front yard, from his window.
Also, Sophia reported to him daily about what had happened during the day, so knowing the child’s routine wasn’t difficult.
‘His favorite food is cookies.’
He recalled Sophia saying that the child loved cookies so much that she only gave him one a day.
So, this cookie must have been saved from yesterday’s snack.
‘What is he hiding?’
Kyllius didn’t dismiss his suspicions.
Whatever the reason, the child was needed and had been brought here.
Whether the child liked it here or not, for the time being, he had to play only in the play that Kyllius had created.
The problem was that the child seemed quite clever, even more so than he had thought.
The eyes I encountered on the first day caught my fancy, so I brought him along, but suddenly, I thought it might be quite tiresome if the child did not move according to my will.
Just like right now, if he struts around as he pleases.
“Duke, I brought it to give to you!”
In the midst of it, the excuse I finally spat out was that shape.
‘A lie.’
The real intention seems to be somewhere else, and he’s using his head to hide it.
How should I pick on this, I was thinking, when Philen beside me laughed sloppily and said,
“Oh my, is that so? You brought it to give to the Duke?”
“Yes!”
“How could you think of something so special! Isn’t that right, my lord?”
Caylius twitched one eyebrow.
‘Does he believe this?’
Philen was completely fooled. But I thought the others would be different, and looked around…
“Miss, please take care of mine next time! I love cookies too!”
“Miss! You can ignore what that Bart guy says! He was saying he didn’t want to go on the first day, and then, woop!”
“Miss, I’m Cris. You know, right? If you need anything next time, please look for me, Cris!”
…Rather than less, they were more, not less.
I had gathered such simple things. It was a moment when my feelings became quite complex.
“Well, then I will…”
The child backpedaled as if he had done his work. His occasional glances seemed like he was asking for permission to go.
Caylius briefly looked around.
“My lord, I’ll escort her safely!”
“No, this kind of thing is for me to…”
“Hey, I’m not involved in this subjugation, so I’ll take her…”
“Yan, take her to the room.”
“Yes, I’ll escort her and come back.”
At Yan’s reply, the other guys couldn’t hide their disappointed looks. Caylius watched without concern until the child disappeared into the mansion.
‘An innocent fellow.’
Perhaps because the action is blatantly visible. I don’t know what he’s hiding, but it doesn’t make me angry. Caylius stared hard at the cookie.
But what to do about this. I’ve received something I don’t even like.
[This is a time separator.]
I looked at my bag and sighed heavily.
“Hmm? Why are you sighing so much today?”
“It’s nothing.”
Sophia tilted her head, but I firmly shook mine.
‘It’s okay, there will be another chance.’
The one lesson I learned from this morning’s event was this. The Duke uses the back door when he goes to work.
‘Let’s go out through the front door tomorrow.’
If I go out through the main gate, I won’t run into the Duke. But just in case, I decided to move a little later in the day, when it was brighter than this morning.
‘I saw the Duke leaving very early for work this morning.’
Then all I need to do is leave a little later. For tomorrow’s plan, I left the cookies that came out as a snack today uneaten.
“Are you not having the cookies today too?”
“Yeah, I’ll eat them later.”
Delma asked as if curious, but I didn’t tell her why.
‘I’ll definitely go out tomorrow.’
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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