Certainly, the Countess seemed to think it was a confession of love and gaped her mouth. Asking when we became so close. Looking at me with that kind of gaze. So I made up my mind. To ask whether I can be more assertive here.
So it might sound a bit harsh, but I shouted firmly towards the Emperor.
“Your Majesty. Will you really keep me by your side no matter what happens?”
“Yes. Why are you asking so suddenly?”
“I’m really curious.”
I smiled slyly and looked at him. The Emperor looked a bit uneasy, tilting his head.
“If Mother says that, I can’t just stand by.”
“Do you have something to say?”
“Yes. Mother…… Mother……”
Her lips quivered, and she wore a pitiful expression. I looked at him, acting, with a face that didn’t know whether it was okay to say this or not.
“What did she say?”
“Mother…… said something I can’t even put into words. That Your Majesty…… that you can’t perform as a man……”
“When did I!”
“You said so. What I just said was in response to that.”
Let’s just go all out now. Yeah. We’ll both die anyway.
“Huh, nonsense. That’s because she’s crazy. I, I wouldn’t have done that!”
The Countess, who even clapped her hands, looked at me resentfully. I raised my voice as if venting my injustice.
“I heard it clearly with my ears! If not impotent, it can’t be like that!”
“That…… that’s……!”
The Emperor, who had been sitting leisurely, suddenly straightened his body.
“Impo……tent? Calling me impotent……”
The Emperor’s gaze, which had been watching us, slowly moved and began to look somewhere on his body. Then he shook his head vehemently.
At that obviously cute behavior, I opened my mouth again.
“Normally in a place without the King, it’s called cursing, my mother and father said so.”
“No, it’s not me. It’s your father.”
The Count, who had been crumpled up to one side, clapped his hands with a speculative face.
“I didn’t do it! It’s all your mother’s doing.”
“Ha. Seeing both of you, the Countess, testify that she said so……. Well, she seems to have done it.”
When the Count quickly abandoned the Countess, she punched the Count’s side forcefully. Thanks to that, the Count’s body crumpled with a sound.
But the Emperor’s gaze was still on the Countess. Finally, the Countess bent over as if her head would touch the floor, bowing.
“No, Your Majesty…… that is…… that is…… I, I have committed a capital offense. It was just a conversation between us…… It was not meant seriously……”
“You’ve committed a capital offense.”
I smiled cheerfully and looked at the Emperor. It seemed good to send her far away this time.
‘That way, I don’t have to marry the Emperor, and it’s a winwin for the world!’
I couldn’t control my happy heart and smiled sincerely. But my actions must have backfired on the Emperor.
“Your Highness.”
“Yes.”
“You certainly agreed earlier.”
“What. But I wasn’t the one who called him impotent, was I? I think you’re not the type to punish a whistleblower who confidently reported it. You said you’d keep me by your side no matter what happened earlier?”
I listed the glib words he had said earlier. Fortunately, the Emperor seemed to be a bit convinced and smiled as if baffled.
“I did say that. It seems like words I spat out to respond to your mother.”
“That’s right!”
“But that’s secondary. You are really…… should I call it brazen?”
I held my head high, looking at the Emperor, who had finally relaxed his expression.
“One must be shameless to survive.”
“To survive. Is it because you know I will keep you by my side?”
“That’s right.”
“That will only be until today.”
At his sudden and firm words, I only rolled my eyes here and there for a moment. What does that mean? It’s definitely not a good feeling.
“Until today……”
I’ll certainly never have to see your blabbering again. What does this mean?
A gulp of saliva was swallowed down her throat. For a moment, her head slightly nodded.
“Weren’t you told that you have to be shameless to survive? Now you don’t have to worry about that. No need to tremble your legs to live, or to bite your chapped lips. That’s what I’m saying.”
“What……?”
“I will be your wall.”
Although he had already thought of him as a wall, her heart sank with a thud at those words that he would become a wall for her.
For a moment, her mouth didn’t close. I just stared at him.
“Don’t you like it?”
“No, I like it. How could I not like the Emperor of a country becoming my wall? It’s more reliable than I thought…….”
I feel good that I have someone on my side. It was strange. My heart was ticklish. Even though it’s just some words from an unlucky Emperor, why does my heart feel so warm?
I forced a smile, fearing that he might misunderstand.
Finally, the Emperor turned his gaze to the Countess.
“So, that settles this issue…….”
The corner of the Emperor’s mouth twitched as he drew out his words.
“Will you oppose it later as well, Countess?”
“What? What do you mean?”
“I am talking about my marriage with Isabella. I asked if you would oppose it like now.”
“I…… I……”
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
