I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 278

“All I have left is misfortune.”

Ah, O Divine One.

Grand Duke Luxen unconsciously sought Lukshena, the Earth Goddess from the founding myth of the Luxen Duchy.

‘Why do You treat these young ones so pitifully?’

There wasn’t a single happy person.

Queen Sylvia, though an exceptionally capable ruler, constantly endured political pressure for failing to produce an heir.

He only later learned that besides Grand Duke Luxen—a foreigner—there were even voices among Oberon Kingdom’s high nobility urging her to take a consort from their own ranks.

And what of Duke and Duchess Temnes, who suddenly had their child taken from them?

Grand Duke Luxen had been busy packing and sending off gifts to Rowen whenever Queen Sylvia decided to go into winter retreat.

Rare treasures—items normally reserved as a princess’s dowry during royal marriages—were being shipped from Luxen to Rowen.

From Princess Elise’s perspective, having one’s child taken away was something only wretches of low status and no means, forced to sell their own offspring, would ever endure.

Right after childbirth, she was placed in a position where she had to call her own healthy son her nephew, stolen from her by her own sister, and her postpartum depression worsened severely.

And what of Duke Temnes himself, flustered by his much younger wife, sweating bullets as he tried to soothe Princess Elise’s wounded feelings?

Thus, a compromise was roughly reached: the Queen, already so busy she could scarcely spend time with her husband the Grand Duke, would annually spend winter in retreat at Rowen.

This was because Princess Elise found stability simply by being able to briefly see her own children—siblings—growing up side by side.

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