Shaking her head at the man’s warning, Yeon Woo quickly prepared to return. Her familiarity with Baekaksan’s geography meant she wouldn’t take long to get back.
However, what greeted her upon her return was not the man, but the empty spot where he had been lying.
In the brief moment she was at the stream, he had vanished.
How could he disappear so quickly with those injuries? It was baffling.
“……?”
She looked around, but there was no trace of the man.
Yeon Woo eventually gave up searching for him.
With his quick movements, he could probably reach a nearby village safely.
“How strange…”
Yeon Woo, staring at the spot where the man had been, gathered her hair that had been blowing in the still cool spring breeze.
Her black hair fluttered in the air like a sea.
The fleeting encounter with the mysterious man.
Thus began Yeon Woo’s first meeting with him.
Yeon Woo’s thatched house looked as if it could collapse at any moment, old and shabby.
The paper on the windows was torn, and the ceiling slanted, letting rainwater leak in.
Upon returning home, Yeon Woo handed the money she earned from the herbs to Mr. Park, who was sitting on the floor.
Mr. Park frowned upon seeing the 10 coins in Yeon Woo’s palm.
“Is this really all you earned?”
“That’s why I also caught a rabbit.”
Yeon Woo, fed up with Mr. Park’s constant nagging even after she had brought money, presented the rabbit she caught earlier.
“……With the rabbit skin, we might get enough to buy Yeonho’s books.”
Mr. Park finally relaxed after seeing the rabbit.
10 coins were indeed less than usual. Normally, she could have earned around 50 coins, but she had used some of the herbs for treating the man she met in the mountains.
Knowing explaining the reduced earnings would only lead to more complaints, Yeon Woo decided to let it go.
She looked around for her older brother, Yeonho.
“By the way, where’s brother?”
“Why are you looking for that busy student?”
Mr. Park responded gruffly to Yeon Woo’s question.
As if on cue, Yeonho’s footsteps sounded at the gate.
“Hey! Hic! Sister, you’re back, hic!”
Staggering in, Yeonho reeked of alcohol.
Yeon Woo, squinting her eyes, looked him up and down.
“Did you go to the pleasure house again?”
At Yeon Woo’s question, Yeonho giggled foolishly and collapsed on the floor.
“I just needed a break from studying, hic! Just went for a change of scenery, hic!”
“So while I break my back earning money, brother spends it on drinking and fun at the pleasure house? With my money?”
“Hehehe.”
Yeonho’s careless laughter boiled Yeon Woo’s blood.
As Yeon Woo slowly reached for a bow nearby, Mr. Park startled and grabbed her arm.
“Yeon Woo! What are you doing?!”
“I’ll put this down, Mother. It seems like we have a bedbug in the house, and I’ll kill it before it sucks any more blood.”
“Calm down, sister!”
While Mr. Park was trying to calm Yeon Woo down, Yeonho quickly escaped to his room.
Only after confirming that Yeonho had entered his room did Mr. Park speak in an angry tone.
“What kind of disrespectful behavior is that towards your brother!”
“Didn’t I take care of everything since father passed away and brother said he’d take the civil service examination?”
Yeon Woo, originally a daughter of a noble family, saw her household’s fortunes decline after her father’s death.
The only hope for reviving their crumbling house was for Yeonho, their only son, to pass the civil service exam and become an official.
Someone had to provide for the family since they couldn’t just survive on air, and with her mother lacking domestic skills and her brother preparing for the exam, it naturally fell upon Yeon Woo to take on the family’s responsibilities.
However, with Yeonho squandering the household’s resources without a thought of supporting the family, Yeon Woo was boiling with anger.
“The man you call brother doesn’t study but only frequents the pleasure houses. He’ll surely pass the exam this way!”
“Yeonho is a man; doesn’t he need a break from studying?”
“Do you think I go to the mountains to pick herbs because I enjoy it? I do it because nobody else thinks to earn money!”
Yeon Woo unleashed her pent-up frustrations.
She resented Mr. Park more for coddling Yeonho, her irresponsible brother.
How could the treatment of siblings from the same womb be so different just because of their gender?
“You should just get married! I’ve already talked to Old Man Bae about arranging your marriage.”
“Marriage? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
Yeon Woo was stunned by the sudden mention of marriage.
“A woman’s place is in her husband’s home, doing household chores. Do you plan to pick herbs in the mountains forever?”
“Old Man Bae? You mean Bae Jinseo from the next village?”
“Yes. Marrying into Old Man Bae’s family would be economically stable, and we wouldn’t have to worry about living expenses.”
Yeon Woo was speechless at the absurdity of the marriage proposal.
Bae Jinseo, a merchant who had made a considerable fortune in trade.
His name alone was enough to make one’s skin crawl, notorious for his foul temper.
Even mentioning his name in the marketplace made people shake their heads, and there were rumors that his wife couldn’t endure his difficult nature and passed away prematurely.
Yeon Woo felt bitter realizing that this was all her worth in her mother’s eyes.
But the main issue was that Old Man Bae, often referred to just by his age, was a sixty-year-old man.
Yeon Woo’s mind reeled.
“Absolutely not! I refuse!”
She was determined not to marry the aged Bae Jinseo, no matter what it took.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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