I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 2
“Shall I undress?”
At the unexpected words, Kai An flinched without realizing it.
The woman who had boldly asked the question stood still like a doll, as if waiting for his response.
That sight only made his already twisted mood even more crooked.
“You seem quite confident, don’t you?”
Kai An looked her up and down.
Even looking again, she was too small and too slender.
It was a frail, insignificant body that looked like it could be completely ruined with just one hand, without needing both.
‘Is she even capable of consummating the first night?’
Today was Kai An’s first night as well.
Raised strictly through successor training, the thing the late duke had emphasized most to him was, “If you ever meet a Vermonde, don’t leave a single one alive,” and the second was, “Don’t carelessly scatter your seed anywhere.”
Rowen, with its warm, mild climate and vast fertile land, was a symbol of abundance.
As the Oberon proverb went—there were no damn beggars in the south—food overflowed to the point of rotting and grew on its own. The task was to thin it out so it didn’t become too cheap, producing just the right yield.
Because of that, branch families and vassals all had large households.
Once children were born, they naturally grew up in Rowen’s abundance as well.
If the lord of Rowen deliberately fell into depravity, the succession would easily fall into chaos.
In fact, several times in the family’s history, illegitimate children had aimed for the heir’s position, leading to bloody fights within the house.
That was why every Temnes heir was raised in an education so strict it bordered on ascetic.
The abundance and wealth of Rowen’s land were an endless temptation that could corrupt the lord’s soul.
In any case, this was Kai An’s first opportunity as a man, yet the woman didn’t seem at all capable of receiving him.
It wasn’t as though he, lacking experience, had never seen an excited woman.
There had been more than one or two virgins who flung themselves into Kai An’s bed like moths to a flame. If you included those who came running even though they already had husbands, the number was countless.
Soft-hearted guards who stepped aside from the bedroom door for the money offered by pretty young ladies clinging to them were fired almost daily.
Granting the virgins’ requests was supposed to be something that pleased a man.
The guards couldn’t understand why that got them dismissed. They could only guess that even the quite pretty virgins in their eyes probably didn’t catch their lord’s notice.
The women who hid in the bedroom only to be immediately chased out had all thrown themselves at him with fierce gestures and pressed their heated bodies against him, so he could sense the passion and intensity that accompanied the act even without trying it.
Suddenly realizing the flow of his own thoughts, Kai An felt displeased.
‘What the hell. There’s no need to worry that much about Vermonde.’
He had never wanted this marriage.
To begin with, Kai An was an exceptionally outstanding and fine lord and man.
He had been dazed as a party to the sudden marriage ordered by the king.
He had vaguely thought that someday he would take a wife of great dignity and discretion and continue the family’s glory as the previous dukes had done, but he had never imagined ending up in such a messed-up marriage.
It only stimulated an instinctive, bone-deep aversion, and he avoided even thinking about how to treat the bride from Vermonde.
The daughter of his enemy.
The blood of his enemy.
Vermonde, who for generations had dared to point swords at Temnes.
If the woman carrying Vermonde’s dirty blood overexerted herself or got hurt, was that his fault?
It was the fault of her and her father, Duke Vermonde, for crawling into the castle knowing what kind of treatment she would receive in Rowen.
Through the thin undergarments, her dry body showed faintly. The silhouette swaying in the flickering candlelight looked like it offered little to see or touch.
“Even if you take everything off, it doesn’t seem like it would raise much expectation.”
Having decided his stance toward Vermonde’s bloodline, he sneered.
Nevertheless, she did not move.
Compared to the women who had panted and screeched, her quietness was somewhat pleasing in the moment, but he consciously erased any favor.
“Vermonde must teach some bedroom arts that can please a man even with a plain body, I suppose?”
He sat on the edge of the bed and eyed her up and down as if appraising her.
“Whether tonight’s first night is properly consummated depends on you. You’ll need to move my heart.”
Even under Kai An’s pouring insults, the woman showed no reaction.
As if those words could not scratch her.
She stood nobly like a statue carved from soft ivory, seemingly waiting for the abuse to pass.
“Do whatever you want.”
Giving her the chance was the best he could do for a Vermonde.
In front of Kai An, who had been leaning half against the bed in an uncooperative posture, the woman’s clothes slowly slipped down.
He forgot what to say and admired the female body.
The neck supporting a head small enough to fit in one hand was slender and long. The shoulders continuing from it looked elegant along with the clearly visible collarbones due to her thinness.
Below that, the woman’s curves swelled and dipped, taking on a pale peach hue down to the knees, then following delicate lines to slender ankles.
Facing the statement that there would be no first night if she failed to seduce him, she was not vulgar.
Rather, she appeared noble, like a saint bestowing mercy upon him.
At her touch, the buttons of the ceremonial clothes Kai An wore came undone one by one, and soon his upper body was revealed.
Only then did embarrassment finally appear in the woman’s eyes. She had somehow managed up to this point, but it seemed she had no idea what to do next.
That attitude at least proved this woman was also inexperienced, so Kai An felt a little more lenient.
In the meantime, she lowered her head and kissed his chest revealed through the parted ceremonial clothes.
Only then did he clearly feel that the woman was trembling faintly.
Suppressing the desire pooling and seeping into his body, Kai An savored the tickling sensation and asked her.
“What’s your name?”
Yet the woman who had shown no reaction to all his insults until now stiffened and trembled violently.
In her wide golden eyes lingered a complex emotion, as if she had collided with something utterly unbearable.
That twisted his insides again, which had just begun to untangle. Just as the mood was about to improve, she made him feel like the bad one.
“Don’t make me say it twice. I asked what your name is.”
A small voice that could not hide her trembling answered his question.
“Clodel Quin… Vermonde.”
That damn Vermonde.
Kai An muttered to himself quietly.
“Whether you can become Clodel Quin Temnes depends on your efforts tonight. I hope you try hard.”
He stood up and extinguished the candle.
If he couldn’t see the red hair of his naive wife, he felt he could somehow manage.
Soon his massive body overlapped atop the woman’s.
[This is the timeline separator]Clodel Quin Vermonde.
It was unexpected that she, neither particularly pretty nor lovely, became the wife of Kai An Fluke Temnes, the war god who had tripled the territory of the Oberon Kingdom.
Originally, Temnes and Vermonde were founding meritorious houses of the Oberon Kingdom and the twin pillars of politics within the kingdom.
The unyielding sword Temnes and the guardian Vermonde.
The martial house that dominated the battlefield and Vermonde, which had taken on the role of diplomatic bridge through generations of outstanding oratory and widespread marriage ties, each exerted themselves in their assigned roles for the kingdom’s prosperity. Thanks to that, the kingdom achieved peace and prosperity day by day.
About two hundred years ago, a major rift occurred between the heads of the two houses.
It started with trivial matters—like being offended by seating arrangements at a banquet or finding an untrimmed shellfish in the served dishes.
But the problem was that the ones offended by such trivialities were the leaders of the kingdom’s greatest political forces.
As they piled up hatred and malice toward each other while upholding their pride, their antagonism grew more severe, and they clashed big and small in every possible place.
Over the long years, the hatred between the northern Vermonde and southern Temnes reached the extreme, to the point where even their territorial subjects would spit on the ground in the direction of their enemy.
When the two houses’ powers were equal, fierce fighting was somewhat better. The problem arose in this generation when the Valmont region suffered drought for ten years.
Valmont, located in the north of the Oberon Kingdom, was originally a land with little farmland. Mostly mountains and frozen soil, most subjects worked in mines or the wilderness. Feeding them fully with the territory’s harvest was impossible.
Vermonde had amassed wealth by selling medicinal herbs, timber, game from Valmont’s mountains, and precious ores from the mines, then buying and stockpiling food with the money.
However, when prolonged drought made Valmont’s yields negligible, Duke Temnes, as if waiting for it, blocked food exports to the north.
As food shortages worsened in the territory, subjects began fleeing one by one with their families.
The most important thing for maintaining a lord’s power was influence and people.
As starving subjects deserted, Valmont’s prestige rapidly declined.
Kai An did not miss that gap.
Rumors spread that he was preparing for a territorial war, as if this was the chance to erase Temnes’s grudge against Vermonde.
King Oberon mediated, and the matter concluded with sending Duke Vermonde’s daughter to Duke Kai An Temnes.
If Temnes attacked the territory, the Vermonde ducal house would surely face extermination this time.
Vermonde’s money and jewels had become useless ever since Temnes began restricting grain exports to the north.
Ordering starving people to take up arms and fight was cruel.
King Oberon’s open attempt to revive Vermonde had the external justification of not being able to lose talented diplomats.
If Vermonde fell, no one else could replace them. A key pillar of Vermonde’s diplomacy was marriage ties.
Nobles from the house married into families holding key positions in various countries, sometimes even as bridegrooms.
Strictly speaking, it was an unwanted marriage for Kai An, but a marriage Clodel had wanted.
She could not let subjects suffering from famine for years be dragged into war.
Moreover, this marriage would allow Temnes to permit food exports to the northern region.
She was glad there was something she could do for the starving children.
[This is the timeline separator]The next day, Clodel, woken early in the morning, had to hurriedly prepare herself.
Her body, tormented until dawn, creaked and complained of pain, but she was used to enduring aches.
“Cough. Cough.”
Seeing her coughing faintly, Hanna asked worriedly.
“Did you catch a cold from getting wet in the rain yesterday?”
“I guess so.”
“I’ll go get some medicine.”
It seemed Hanna had realized in just one day that she shouldn’t ask for things here. She said she would get it herself. Watching the spirited maid, Clodel smiled.
A short while later, the butler of the lord’s castle came to escort her.
Even after consummating the first night, the wedding ceremony was not fully over.
She had to go pay respects as the next mistress at the cemetery of past Temnes dukes located underground in the castle.
The damp underground stairs were slippery, perhaps from seeping water.
Holding Hanna’s hand and carefully descending, she saw stone tombs filling a vast underground cavern.
The floor was dug to place coffins, with gravestones engraved with names and achievements above them.
Among them, in the very center, was a newly made tomb.
Kai An Fluke Temnes.
Clodel Quin Temnes.
It was the place for Kai An and her.
Clodel lightly brushed the cold, smooth gravestone.
What more could be engraved beneath this stone that bore only names?
The man who had said last night that whether she could bear the Temnes name depended on her—yet it seemed he had no intention of casting her out after all. Seeing that he had prepared a grave plot like this.
At that moment, Kai An’s cold voice came from behind her.
“Does the place for your eternal rest seem to your liking?”
Male lead is reincarnated to save his wife
I’ve also read this one twice already. The female lead is kinda soft and gets embarrassed easily—not really my type, but the plot is definitely worth reading. Hurry up and read it, y’all!
Intro
When Shen Yuan encountered Su Jin again in his previous life, she had already become the Prime Minister of the current dynasty. As for him, the former top young master of the capital, he had long since fallen into the abyss, becoming a singer on a pleasure boat.
After a song ended, he was redeemed and sent to the Su Residence.
Su Jin respected and cherished him, gave him a roof over his head, and bestowed him with warmth. Shen Yuan fell deeper and deeper, but before he could express his feelings, Su Jin passed away.
Shen Yuan died to follow her in death, but instead, he returned to when he was fifteen years old.
At that time, he was not yet engaged, and Su Jin was just a poor scholar.
Shen Yuan gritted his teeth, casting aside all his pride, and thought of ways to coax and entice her every day.
The colder and more indifferent Su Jin was towards him, the more proactive Shen Yuan became.
He was not afraid of being mocked by the world, only wanting to marry his Wife-master early, to hold her hand and never let go for a lifetime.
[Note: This story will not specifically point out the male lead’s reincarnation time point; it’s all in the details. Whenever you feel that the male lead is acting strangely, he has most likely been reincarnated.]
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Every time I see the FL, I feel like crying! Also, I laughed so hard when I learned about the emperor’s feelings for the ML; I expected their relationship to be brotherly. It’s funny how he hates him.
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Yet seeing that she hadn’t accepted his gift had wounded his pride deeply.
I am sure there was a scheme behind all of this. I hope it will be resolved early…
“As you wish.”
Arghhhhhhh how hateful. I am sure he will regret it when it’s almost too late
She was certain she wouldn’t see him in her bedchamber again from tonight onward
Girl I am sure you are wrong about your assumption. 😅😂
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Isn’t the ML name supposed to be Cain ?