I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 140
“What if you finally confessed your feelings to the Duchess today?”
“W-what? Confess my feelings? What utter nonsense are you spouting.”
The man, suddenly flushed to the ears as though struck by some outrageous thought, stammered incoherently.
“To the lady who still presents herself as the Duchess…”
“But didn’t the Lord himself give his permission?”
Antyone grew even more irritated, as the unsightly man’s flustered behavior seemed to mirror her own twisted feelings.
Wasn’t it precisely because something was out of reach that one stretched out one’s hand toward it all the more desperately? To Antyone, Kai An was just like that; to Burbrook, Clodel was just like that—it wasn’t entirely absurd.
If not for the royal decree that had forced this marriage upon him, Kai An—a man indifferent to central politics, uninterested in the nobles’ lavish amusements, and content merely to govern his domain quietly—would hardly have found Antyone so wholly inadequate as a mistress of the house.
The black hair and red eyes characteristic of the Temnes bloodline were exceedingly rare, and if one married a woman who shared those same black hair and red eyes, there was a high likelihood that such a child would be born to their heir.
Thus, whenever a woman with black hair and red eyes became the lady of Temnes, multiple generations of heirs often inherited those same features.
Indeed, even among the collateral branches, daughters—and sometimes sons—with lustrous black hair like Antyone’s mother and Antyone herself appeared fairly regularly.
Because they placed such importance on these symbolic physical traits, any healthy young woman from the collateral branches who possessed suitable appearance, character, and the right age was always implicitly prioritized as a potential future mistress of Temnes. Tracing their lineage back, marriages like that of the late Duke of Temnes—wedding a noblewoman of a powerful house for political reasons—were far rarer. After all, Temnes had never needed to curry favor with anyone or feel lacking in any regard.
Yet the late Duke of Temnes had been so determined to crush Vermonde that he chose marriage to a princess. It was clear he intended to settle an old grudge once and for all.
Given such a father, everyone in the domain naturally assumed it only fitting that Kai An would eventually resort to outright war to strike down Vermonde.
When conscripting soldiers for war, the villagers had all united with one mind—to sharpen their blades together and utterly annihilate Valmont in one decisive campaign.
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
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This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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Evil… he ordered the child to be killed without any mercy… you will suffer
I hope you die without finding the medicine… you will be consumed.
Oh, the child is finally here… The Emperor will be severely punished.