I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 22
“…Medicine?”
Clodel’s pupils widened as though yellow flower petals were blooming, then instantly withered back to their original state.
“There is no medicine.”
It had been a full three hundred years since Herzol was first subdued.
In a land frozen half the year, the curse-like illness that once bound the people of Valmont had now become an opportunity—families who bore a child were granted a year’s worth of tax exemption.
Every head of House Vermonde had sternly instructed their heir:
“No matter how dire our circumstances or how difficult things become, never cease the Ice Baptism.”
Because such a significant reward existed, no one ever refused it.
If, for various reasons, the tax exemption were reduced even slightly—say, to half a year—fewer people would seek it out, and negligence would spread.
Should Herzol ever resurge in that land, the number of vassals would dwindle.
House Vermonde had known since ancient times that the power of a domain depended on the number of people residing within it.
Medicine for Herzol had not been entirely nonexistent.
But since the disease had been brought under control, there was no longer any need for such remedies.
Expensive to produce, requiring rare and difficult-to-source ingredients, the medicine fell into obscurity as no one sought it anymore.
Most of the various formulas once passed down for its preparation had been lost.
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.”
You cannot be jealous of your wiggles personal maid
Why does he have to focus so much on his lie instead of focusing on the fact that she is pitiful 🥲
Sharp intuition…hahahaha. The male-lead is very good at being self-contented.