Klaus stared intently at the extended hand before casually turning his body and slumping onto a nearby sofa. The worn-out sofa, barely maintaining its shape, creaked alarmingly as he sat, but he ignored it, arrogantly crossing his legs and scrutinizing the young man before him.
“You knew who I was and still didn’t come out to meet me?”
There was clear displeasure in his voice. Roselia awkwardly smiled and bowed her head slightly.
“I apologize if you were inconvenienced. You arrived suddenly without notice, so I was hastily looking for a clean room to receive you.”
It was almost as if she was chiding Klaus for not calling ahead. He raised an eyebrow in surprise.
“If I had informed you before coming, can you assure me you wouldn’t have fled?”
The debt was a staggering 5,000 Verang. A single Verang could sustain an average family for a week, and commoners rarely even handled Verangs, usually dealing with smaller denominations like Grang.
1,000 Verang could buy a rural mansion. The current Baron Hesingk mansion, if sold, would likely not fetch even 2,000 Verang.
Paying off the remaining amount would take a lifetime without exceptional abilities. To know this amount and still not flee suggested remarkable courage.
Moreover, the eldest son, Antonio, was known as a dropout from the academy, a useless drunkard squandering money. Judging by his pretty face, Klaus guessed he had probably been living it up in back alleys.
As Klaus was assessing the situation in his mind, Roselia, posing as Antonio, smiled and replied.
“Even if I fled, wouldn’t you find me anyway, using people to track me down until you got your money’s worth?”
Alejandro, standing beside them, looked surprised by Roselia’s keen insight. Klaus, too, seemed intrigued by her unexpected response and shifted his posture, resting his elbow on his knee.
“You seem to know quite a bit about me.”
“Who in the Lugbelzhet Empire doesn’t know Duke Baltazar?”
Roselia’s consecutive responses seemed to amuse Klaus, who leaned back comfortably on the sofa.
“Did Baron Hesingk tell you about the debt he owed me?”
He doubted the proud Baron Hesingk would discuss his debts with his children.
But her response was unexpected.
“Yes, I heard about it.”
Klaus looked at her again, surprised.
“The amount too?”
“5,000 Verang, right?”
Klaus mused internally that it was unusual for the Baron to have told his eldest son, but this would make their conversation more straightforward. Contrary to Klaus’s guess, Baron Hesingk had never mentioned the debts to his children. She knew this from the original novel.
In the novel, Roselia was unaware of the situation until Duke Baltazar’s men stormed the mansion. She was taken away like baggage to the Duke’s estate to pay off the remaining debt with her body.
As a maid at Baltazar’s estate, she was used by the Duke and eventually framed as a spy for the royal family and killed by the crown prince.
But with her inhabiting Roselia’s body, such a fate was unacceptable.
“I will pay off the debt.”
Klaus smirked as if her determination was amusing.
“How do you plan to do that? Even after liquidating this estate, there will be a shortfall of at least 3,000 Verang. How will you cover the rest?”
His expression was more anticipatory than interrogatory. He seemed curious whether she was just a cornered mouse lashing out or if she really had something up her sleeve.
While tapping the armrest of the sofa, Klaus observed Roselia, who inwardly smiled. It was a gesture he often made when intrigued, a detail she vividly remembered and responded to with a sly smile.
“One year,” she declared confidently.
Klaus looked up at her in surprise. “You’re saying you’ll pay back 3,000 Verang in one year?”
His tapping on the sofa armrest abruptly stopped, replaced by a look of disbelief and annoyance.
“How do you plan to do that?”
His icy blue eyes pierced through her, a gaze so intense it felt overwhelming. But her statement wasn’t a reckless outburst. Her advantage lay in knowing the content of the novel.
As a die-hard fan of the female protagonist, she had read the novel at least ten times. She remembered major events, such as the location of a magical stone mine discovered six months later, or the approximate location of a sunken imperial merchant ship loaded with gold.
With a determined smile, Roselia met Klaus’s penetrating gaze. “I haven’t been idling my time away in back alleys for nothing.”
“You think you can pay off 3,000 Verang with mere street rumors?”
Klaus’s skeptical frown only made Roselia smile more. “Sometimes, the truth is closer to street rumors than you think.”
The rumors were a convenient excuse, but her actual plan centered around artworks. The female protagonist, the crown princess, had a keen interest in art, often purchasing unknown artists’ works to adorn the palace. In a few months, the works of artists currently regarded as trash would become masterpieces in the royal palace.
Artworks were merely hobbies and luxuries for the crown princess and nobles, posing little risk to national affairs or the story.
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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