I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 172
“Our baby?”
Clodel looked pale and wan, her bloodless face drained of all color. The healthy weight she had gained during her pregnancy—when her appetite increased amid morning sickness—had vanished without a trace.
Moreover, the body of a woman who should have been in her final trimester now revealed a slender waist.
‘It’s still not time for the baby to be born yet.’
The exact timing of her pregnancy was difficult to pinpoint.
There was only the assumption that she might have become fertile again around the time Princess Irena visited the estate.
Based on when her morning sickness occurred and other factors, they had estimated the baby would likely be born between late June and early July.
Clodel’s appearance triggered a sense of déjà vu.
She was skeletal and listless, showing no will whatsoever—just like when she’d first arrived at Rowen, accepting her impending death from Herzol.
“Our baby, you say?”
For the first time, anger flickered across the face of the woman who until now had seemed utterly indifferent.
“Do you even have the right to say that?”
The right? So he lacked the right?
Kai An found her evident rejection strangely disorienting and unnatural.
Yet no suitable reply came to mind, and his words caught in his throat.
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.”
Oh, the child is finally here… The Emperor will be severely punished.