I Had the Enemy's Baby (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 46
After dinner, Irena returned to the guest room where she was staying.
“Haaah.”
Leaning against the door as she closed it, Irena let out a long sigh and fanned her flushed cheeks with her hand.
“What on earth did I just witness?”
During dinner, Irena had briefly left the table to wash her hands.
She simply couldn’t bear to sit any longer with that arrogant man who clearly had no intention of treating her with respect.
Moreover, her appetite had vanished entirely after seeing Clodel caught awkwardly between them—trying to mediate while watching her cold, intimidating husband and Irena herself, who saw no reason to tolerate such rudeness.
Unlike grand banquets or balls with many attendees, in smaller gatherings such as intimate dinners or tea parties, “leaving the table” was an implicit way of expressing dissatisfaction.
More than anything else, she absolutely could not stomach the way he dared—despite being related by marriage—to speak as if he looked down upon Valmont.
Unlike Clodel, who had grown up essentially as Valmont’s foster child due to her parents’ misfortune, Irena held immense pride in the Valmont territory and House Vermonde.
Although her future husband would sit as lord, she herself was effectively the true heir to that land.
Her admirable father, Duke Vermonde, always tried hard to show her only pretty and pleasant things—but even he sometimes couldn’t restrain himself and would vent his resentment toward Temnes even in front of her.
“My dear puppy. When you become the lady of the manor, your father wishes Temnes would no longer draw breath upon this earth. How much longer must we endure the sight of those filthy, ignorant brutes parading themselves as nobles in Oberon?”
While washing her hands, Irena thought grimly,
“If only the food supply issue were resolved, we could declare war on Temnes immediately.”
My Step-brother Is Obsessed With Me (Female-dominant)
A gentle female protagonist vs pitiful in the early stage, and a sick male protagonist in the later stage
Cheng Songer transmigrated into the body of a vicious cannon fodder female supporting character with the same name as her in a female-dominant novel.
In the original story, the cannon fodder female supporting character was inhumane, committing domestic violence, gambling excessively, being lustful, and even wanting to sell her stepbrother to a brothel for money.
As luck would have it, she just happened to transmigrate at this time.
Seeing Cheng Qingzhi biting his lip, enduring the tears in his eyes, looking pitiful, her heart softened.
She stuffed the money back into the Madam’s hand and reached out to him.
“Brother, come home with me.”
Your warped mind should be occupied with more important matters.
You must beware of the snake that is plotting against you.
That treacherous, fox-like emperor…will not live long.