“I’ve lost my mind. What was I thinking? What should I do? I’m ruined.”
As I started to behave like I might collapse and cry on the floor, Eliana, who had been pressing me for answers, changed her approach and began to console me.
“Don’t worry too much. If we stay quiet for a while, people will forget.”
“But…”
“It’s fine, really. Trust me, I’ll handle the public opinion as best as I can. If that doesn’t work, we’ll just distract them with something else.”
“Something else?”
“There’s always someone in a relationship that shouldn’t be publicized.”
It meant if my scandal didn’t die down, she would reveal someone else’s scandal instead.
“That’s a bit…”
“Leave it to me, Claire. Don’t worry too much.”
Although it felt somewhat uncomfortable, I had no choice but to trust Eliana, the queen of social circles.
Yes, if we can’t suppress the rumors, I’ll just be a bit shameless. When have I ever cared about what others thought? Time to toughen up. What they’re saying isn’t even true.
And even if this incident hadn’t occurred, people would still gossip about me. At the banquet, I met people who were creating fictional stories about Ian and me. There were also those who made assumptions about my act of saving Daniel.
“Okay, I’ll trust you, Eliana.”
“Good. Just trust me.”
After saying this, Eliana left my room.
I had barely gotten out of bed when I felt dizzy.
“I keep forgetting my body is less efficient than before.”
I still hadn’t fully adapted to Claire’s body. Although I was younger, I was smaller and more fragile.
Eating too much could easily upset my stomach, and even a little exertion could leave me aching all over.
If I didn’t get at least 8 hours of sleep a day, I’d be drowsy and nod off.
Shuri McCain was exceptionally strong, but Claire… who did she take after to be so weak? I heard she was frail because she hadn’t completed her growth phase, but this seemed excessive.
“Should I make some medicine? It won’t change my constitution completely, but…”
Given my inherently frail constitution, medicine wouldn’t bring significant improvement. It’s just how I was born. Yet, if I continued like this, I might spend most of my life in bed.
I used to find satisfaction in working. While wearing beautiful clothes, eating delicious food, and living in a mansion wasn’t bad, it felt stifling and unsatisfying.
“To do that, I’d need to go to the pharmacy… Oh right, the pharmacy burned down.”
Since waking up in Claire’s body, I hadn’t once visited the pharmacy. It was more an avoidance of reality than anything else; I couldn’t face the fact that it was destroyed by fire.
The pharmacy was everything to me. It was my entire childhood, the history of my family that I built with my grandfather. To think it was gone overnight was too much to bear.
But I couldn’t keep avoiding it forever. Whether or not I could reopen the pharmacy, I needed to get back to work, especially to continue supplying medicine to Ian.
“Now that I think about it, was pharmacy only for commoners? Being a noble now, do I need a healer’s license? This is a strange feeling. Grandfather would have been happy to see this.”
I wasn’t worried about passing the exam. Although I was a pharmacist, I was also skilled in treating people.
In the Carlobanian Empire, the roles of healers and pharmacists were not significantly different. Originally, healers were responsible for treating people, while pharmacists prepared medicines appropriate for various illnesses.
However, since only nobles could become healers, it was rare for noble-born healers to treat commoners. Consequently, commoners often sought pharmacists when ill, and pharmacists frequently assumed the role of healers. I too, as a pharmacist, often found myself in the role of a healer.
Now, the perception had solidified to the extent that healers were considered those who treated nobles, and pharmacists those who treated commoners.
“I should visit the pharmacy today and also inquire about the healer’s examination at the castle. I hope I haven’t missed it already.”
I immediately got ready to go out. The weather had warmed up considerably, making it a good day to venture outside.
“What on earth are you going out for, and alone at that!”
Eliana tried to dissuade me when she heard that I, Claire, was planning to go out, but I insisted. It was unavoidable that Claire’s body was weak, but I didn’t want to be confined to bed any longer.
Claire seemed to have been quite stubborn, as Eliana, apparently unable to win against Claire’s obstinacy, reluctantly proposed a compromise.
“How about this? I need to go to the city today anyway. I’m planning a tea party in a few days and need to visit the shop for some suitable crockery and tea sets. While I’m doing that, you can wait at the pharmacy.”
“That sounds good.”
I agreed to go along with her suggestion. The shop she was visiting was under the patronage of the Perve family.
“I’d better ask Eliana to inquire about the healer’s exam. It’s probably better than me doing it directly.”
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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