“Ah…!”
“Why, what’s wrong?”
“Just a moment, just a moment…”
With her belly wrapped, Jaein endured the pain, biting her lower lip. Taeso hurriedly approached Jaein.
In the brief moment, Jaein, enduring the pain, with sweat covering her once warm hands, his face turned pale in an instant. The small hand that was warm until a moment ago had quickly turned cold.
“Jaein…?”
“…Taeso.”
Jaein, who took a short breath, narrowed his eyes as if in pain and opened them again. Though the intense pain that had struck her a moment ago was gradually decreasing, it was still concerning.
“Are you okay? Does it hurt? Should we go to the hospital?”
The sudden and unfamiliar pain that throbbed heavily in his lower back was worrisome. Combined with the fact that there had been no movement from the baby since dawn, Jaein was anxious about the squeezing pain in her stomach.
While trying to regulate her breathing with the help of the fresh air, Jaein, who was holding her belly, belatedly realized Taeso, who was calling her name anxiously.
“Hoo…!”
But once again, Jaein, leaning on Taeso due to the pain that struck like lightning, shivered violently. The voice of Sanghwa, who detected the situation from the tightly gripped phone, came belatedly.
Not able to focus on anything other than the unbearable pain, both Jaein and Taeso, who was too shocked to think of anything else, forgot that Taeso was still on the phone.
—Jaein, what’s happening? Is your stomach hurting? Is the baby coming out? Taeso! Kang Taeso!
“I’m going to the hospital right now. I’ll call you back.”
Instead of Jaein, Taeso ended the call with the phone in her hand and supported Jaein.
Although she wanted to hug her as if she were her own, she had already heard from the doctor several times that if anything happened to Taeso in her haste, it would be a big problem.
“Taeso, calm down… Take a deep breath.”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“My bag and my clothes…”
“Yeah, I know where they are. Let’s go to the car first. I’ll quickly go and get them, and Jaein can sit down.”
It was a plan to have a natural delivery, but in case surgery was required, she had already packed a bag with necessities for hospitalization a few days in advance.
Regretfully, she realized that she had left the bag on the second floor in the baby room without much thought. She opened the door leading to the garage. The car parked right in front felt far away.
The hospital Jaein and Taeso were attending was a comprehensive hospital with the largest obstetrics and gynecology department in Chicago. Although the hospital expenses were exorbitant, they provided most of the items, so there was not much to prepare for baby items.
Most of the items in the bag were filled with Jaein’s belongings. The baby items included only clothes, swaddling clothes, and a blanket. All were gifts among the numerous gifts that arrived from Korea, selected for use when leaving the hospital.
“Are you taking that to the hospital…?”
“Yeah, why?”
“Jaein, how about this instead of that? Amber sent it from Europe. It’s more convenient because the top and pants are attached, and you don’t need to put on socks, so it’s more…”
“I don’t like it. I prefer this.”
“Then how about this? Sanghwa sent it, and it seems easy to put on in various ways…”
“No. I like this.”
A few days ago, Taeso couldn’t stop Jaein from carefully picking up a finely sewn white garment.
The clothes Jaein picked up were from the five large boxes that arrived from Korea not long after entering the stable period of pregnancy.
“Who sent this? There’s no name on the sender. What a well-delivered package.”
“…I wonder.”
“Is it Sanghwa? Or maybe Amber? Oh, it’s from Korea. It must be Sanghwa; Director Jang who’s on vacation sent it, saying the box is too big.”
Curiously, Jaein opened the box, leaving Taeso, who hesitated to speak. At that time, Amber had just finished organizing her life in Korea and went on a trip to Europe, so Jaein naturally thought that the sender of the box was either Sanghwa or Mrs. Bae.
However, meticulously examining the items that filled the box, Jaein seemed to immediately recognize who had sent these many gifts.
Each item had elegance, and many seemed so precious that their prices couldn’t be estimated.
Among them, what caught Jaein’s eyes were a long jacket and swaddling clothes made of pure white fabric, without a speck of dust.
The jacket, with an appearance that was hard to find these days, was so soft that it was beyond description.
“Taeso, it seems like she made this herself.”
“Hmm…”
“Really, all I can say is that it’s beautiful. This is like a work of art, not just clothes. I want to frame it and hang it on the wall. Doesn’t it seem like something that should be exhibited in a museum?”
“Well…”
“Oh, there’s Chinese characters engraved here. What does it mean?”
On the end of each of the two jackets, a neatly embroidered Chinese character caught Taeso’s eyes, but she pretended not to see it. Jaein, who had been holding her phone and smiling, finally found the meaning and pronunciation of the characters.
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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