The guild master’s expression changed. ‘Blue blood of the bluest bloods’ was a term for royalty. Amy, feigning ignorance, added, “And… related to this number of gold coins.”
She took out a coin from the pouch and tossed it. The guild master caught it reflexively. That coin was worth a thousand of the currently circulating ones.
‘1000, related to this number?’
He couldn’t grasp what she meant. Just then, Amy, as if remembering something, took out another object from her pocket and tossed it. It was a regular gold coin.
“The total is 1001. Remember that.”
Amy boasted. The guild master looked puzzled but nodded without showing it. However, Amy sensitively noticed his reaction.
‘He’s aware of the rebellion but doesn’t know about him.’
Better for her. When he comes to claim the fund she prepared, he’d be more curious about her than the guild master.
“Can I borrow a quill?”
After writing a brief note to be stored with the money, Amy stood up, satisfied with her unexpected success, and left. The guild master and his subordinate just stared at each other, feeling as if a storm had just passed.
Outside the guild’s pub, Amy weaved through the market’s complex streets to avoid potential followers. After some time, confident she wasn’t being trailed, she headed towards the rendezvous with the Second Prince.
In the capital’s market, people from all corners of the empire gathered, meaning all sorts of rumors circulated. Amy listened to many stories as she walked. Most were trashy rumors as usual. Then, a particular conversation caught her ear.
“There’s been a rebellion in some province in the South.”
“!”
Her pace slowed. People continued to murmur.
“I heard, too. They’ve already crossed the Len River, haven’t they?”
“Then the capital isn’t far, right? Thought it’d be suppressed quickly, but they’re holding up better than expected.”
Amy etched the information about the rebels crossing the Len River in her mind and quickened her pace again.
‘The First Prince really knows his business.’
Amy rolled her eyes internally. The First Prince she was thinking of wasn’t that detestable current Crown Prince. It was the hidden son of the Emperor, born earlier from the first Empress, and the rightful owner of the funds she had left at the guild.
She learned about him when she was kidnapped by Lady Esmain and left to starve in a dungeon during her previous life.
Unable to speak due to a severed tongue, Amy had a chatty guard who would tell her all sorts of stories. That day, the news was particularly sensational:
Apparently, the real Crown Prince had appeared.
It was an astonishing story, but Amy, too weak to react, just lay there, blinking. Thanks to the guard’s incessant chatter, she learned the following:
The unrest in the South was all his doing, and the Emperor, to pacify the vastly grown rebellion, decided to depose the current Crown Prince and appoint him instead.
It was said that if they continued to oppose each other, the Empire would face a crisis. The sentiment of not just the South but also the Central region was wholly in his favor.
Hearing this, Amy, her lips cracked and dry from dehydration, twisted them into a smile for the first time in years. The thought of Lady Esmain being outwitted was immensely satisfying.
Walking through the market streets, Amy was deep in thought.
‘Previously, it took almost three years after his initial appearance to become the Crown Prince…’
Her eyes sparkled.
‘What’s the problem if it happens a bit earlier? The position above the Crown Prince is rightfully his, after all.’
Amy planned to subtly assist him, not only to complete her revenge against the current Crown Prince but also to solidify the Second Prince’s position.
She smirked. It was like killing two birds with one stone. How could it not be enjoyable?
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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