I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 147
“The guards in front of the mistress’s room? Lord said not to post them.”
“Oh my, really?”
The maids’ gossip, brimming with the festival’s liveliness, carried clearly all the way here.
‘Why do the things I don’t want to hear always reach my ears so clearly?’
What she longed to know—Kai An hadn’t given her an answer. All those suffocating, unresolved questions swirling inside her heart had piled up until now, and yet words she’d be better off never hearing flowed effortlessly into her ears.
“Aren’t there supposed to be two guards stationed right outside the mistress’s bedroom?”
“That’s right. But people only bother protecting someone they consider precious. After all, it was a marriage his lordship never wanted.”
“Besides, she’s from Vermonde.”
The maids tittered among themselves.
“Honestly, getting an orchard keeper as her next match would be a blessing.”
“Exactly. Lord Burbrook is one of the wealthiest men in the domain—he’s easily in the top ten for stipend size alone.”
“If she’d been sent to the convent, she might never have stepped outside again for the rest of her life.”
Clodel instinctively wrapped both hands around her lower abdomen. She foolishly wished the baby wouldn’t hear these words spoken because of her mother’s inadequacy, and that somehow the unborn child’s ears—ears she couldn’t cover—might remain untouched by such talk.
“I’ll just—!”
As she turned around, Hanna was already rolling up her sleeves with a fierce scowl, muttering angrily.
After Being Cheated On, She Picked Up a Treasure (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: The husband I married on a whim had been secretly in love with me for a long time.
On the day when Jun Shao finally obtained the imperial decree for her marriage, Lan Qu, the person she had admired for six years, defied the decree and ran away.
Her gentleness and devotion, her promise of a lifetime together, were all disregarded by him. Instead, he dreamed of entering the palace to serve the Emperor’s sister as a sixth-rank attendant.
News of this incident spread throughout the capital, and the alleys in front of and behind the Lan mansion were crowded with people who came to watch the commotion.
Jun Shao should have been embarrassed and angry.
But someone stepped in to protect her dignity.
The figure was in a miserable state, yet still possessed an undeniable elegance and handsomeness.
The young lord struggled to climb the wall of the Lan mansion and shouted to her, “If he won’t marry you, I will!”
So, Jun Shao took advantage of the situation and married the person.
She thought the young lord did it to save the Lan family from the crime of defying the imperial decree, but never imagined that from beginning to end, what he coveted was her.
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After the wedding, Jun Shao felt like she was living in a dream.
Her Wife-master was as beautiful as a fairy in a painting, skilled in the six arts, well-versed in poetry and literature, capable of being gentle and attentive, and also grand and dignified. Most importantly, she was the only one in his heart and eyes.
Jun Shao didn’t know how Lan Shiwu, as a illegitimate son without a father and blessed with beauty, had managed to preserve his purity, recklessly escape, and use his last ounce of strength to ruin his own reputation, all because of his love for her, just to stand before her.
She could only see him gazing at her with eyes full of love, and when she bestowed a name upon him, his eyes shone like stars.
“You have come to me like a weary bird perching on a branch. I shall call you A Qi.”
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.