The deep yet powerful voice broke my reverie. Only then did I lift my head, which I had buried in worry, to look directly at the Duke.
‘Wow.’
He was a great beauty.
With black hair like the eyes of a refined yet wild beast, he had blue eyes reminiscent of the lake where fairies live, Lake Aour.
He was on par with the main character, Serdis.
If Serdis is a flower in a greenhouse.
Would the Duke be like a wildflower in its raw form?
Personally, his looks were more to my taste than Serdis.
‘But where have I seen him before?’
The man wearing the luxurious threepiece formal suit. The only times I might have met the Duke would be at parties or gatherings.
I couldn’t quite recall.
For a moment, the Duke turned his gaze towards me because I kept staring at him.
Our eyes met in the air, and he gave a faint smile.
‘I’ve definitely seen this smile before.’
“Speak comfortably, Your Grace, the Duke.”
“Do not mind my manner of speaking. I’ve been trying to correct the blunt speech of a knight.”
He then turned his head and spoke in a polite and soft manner. My father nodded as if he understood.
“By the way, I heard you had a victory ceremony today, why didn’t you go to the townhouse and came to our Count’s house instead?”
In other words, why did you come when we didn’t invite you? It was such a question. The Duke adjusted his posture, looking at my father and mother alternately.
“I sent a letter in advance, but it seems you haven’t received it yet.”
“A letter? We haven’t received anything. Butler, did you not deliver the letter the Duke sent?”
With sweat forming thickly on his forehead, my father called the chief butler who was standing far away.
Despite the room not being hot, the butler’s glasses were misty.
The hesitant butler finally spoke.
“I delivered it to the master earlier.”
“Earlier? I don’t remember receiving it. The only thing you gave me was a marriage proposal.”
As my father asked, it was the Duke, not the hesitating butler, who answered instead.
“It seems my proposal has arrived safely.”
No one in the room immediately understood what he was saying.
After a few seconds of silence, I understood the situation and screamed inwardly.
“So you’re saying the Duke sent this marriage proposal?”
My mom, whose mouth had clamped shut like a clam, cried out with a slight voice crack in place of me.
“To, to our Anette?”
Cold sweat poured out.
It was because he looked at me and smiled thinly.
‘It can’t be, right?’
The security guard I met at the casino yesterday… Couldn’t be.
Even though I thought it wouldn’t be, my memory was becoming more and more clear.
The red lips, the slight dimple when he smiled, and the smooth neck line from his chin.
“Heek.”
That’s right, that man!
‘The security guard I met at the casino!’
The man who I thought was just a local noble or maybe a junior noble was the Duke.
And he just showed up with a marriage proposal now? After I’ve been through all that trouble and came back?
The Duke, seeing my eyes widening, seemed to notice that I had figured out his identity and smirked.
“Anette, he didn’t say anything to us.”
My mom shook my arm and urged a response in haste.
“Say something!”
I barely managed to open my lips that wouldn’t part.
“You, you must be surprised, right?”
“You even greeted him saying it was your first meeting when he entered.”
“I wanted to surprise you!”
I spread my hands wide to illustrate the surprise, but my gesture was incredibly awkward.
“Why… Why is he doing this, not answering me? The Duke just returned from war, is it even possible he’s proposing?”
“It doesn’t make sense. Yes.”
There was nothing to be done at this point.
It was rather better if he was a duke.
There was no guarantee that the emperor’s power would protect me perfectly.
No being under the sway of Serdis’s power either.
‘Plus, he’s really handsome and kind.’
There was no reason to refuse his marriage proposal.
Since it had come to this, I had to act with all my strength.
“I met him at the banquet. That’s when I returned home late. In fact, when I was about to be attacked by thugs who target nobles on the street. The Duke saved me.”
I hit the table with enough force to shake the tea cup, then stood up from my seat.
“I fell in love with him at first sight.”
I shouted. Whether they believed it or not, it didn’t matter.
“To propose without even dating. Do you want us to believe that?”
As expected, father. I knew you’d say that.
“What can I do if I’m ‘love at first sight’, just like my father. This is also genetic.”
“Love at, ‘first sight’?”
“Falling in love with a face. I heard it from Lian before. Dad, you fell in love with mom at the first sight at the ball and proposed immediately, didn’t you?”
Mom was also beautiful, like me.
And the Duke’s appearance was not to be trifled with either.
“Look at our Duke. How cool, reliable, and handsome he is. If there is someone who doesn’t fall for him, let them come out. It’s absurd. If you miss the Duke now, you’ll miss him forever and live with regret!”
It was a very passionate confession of love. At the same time, I signaled the Duke.
‘Don’t just stay still, please step in.’
Since it seemed wrong to live luxuriously and then divorce quietly, I had to get proper permission for marriage.
In response to my signal, the Duke just laughed a bit and stood up.
With his laughing voice completely removed, with a serious expression.
“Exactly as the lady said. I was also attracted by her courage and accepted it.”
Mother suddenly opened her mouth wide, then quickly covered it with her hand.
“And it is hard to express in words the beauty like a flower that looks like the Countess.”
“Oh, my.”
The Duke, without hesitation, used such flattering words. It was so natural that it couldn’t be denied.
When the handsome Duke called her like that, my mother’s expression softened.
“Your Highness, we also need some time to…”
It was my father’s turn this time.
But the Duke’s expression was relaxed. As if he had predicted and planned all the situations. And his previously enormous gaze sank sharply. At the bottom were his firm knees.
“Please give me your daughter.”
K.O.
The moment when the Duke, who had been announcing victories in the war, showed his action in our house as well.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
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Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
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When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
