“You must have regained consciousness by now, Lady Sophia. The anesthetic was used well.”
From a distance, voices of people were heard. Specifically, a few individuals were approaching, conversing in hushed tones.
“You’ve done well. She’s a woman we can use, so she must be specially cared for.”
Soon the door opened, and the owners of the voices entered; a man who looked like a doctor and two attendants. There was also a woman called ‘Lady Sophia’.
“Edith Lowell, correct?”
“…….”
“Your reluctance to speak hastily is good. If you speak carelessly, you tend to give information advantageous to the other side.”
The woman elegantly brushed her dense black hair. Her cold red eyes thoroughly scanned Edith’s entire body.
“I am Sophia, the first wife of Nicholas Portrion. But… as you know, my beloved suffered a severe injury last dawn and has fallen into a coma.”
Her eyebrows drooped as she spoke, but a smile hung at the corners of her mouth. Her face was not one of someone grieving for a lost love.
Edith quickly caught on to the dual nature of her attitude.
“Lady Sophia, if you let me go, I won’t tell anyone what happened in the past few days. I have no interest in inheritance or intrigue.”
“You judge the situation quickly, which is good. But…”
Sophia’s words trailed off as she looked into Edith’s desperate eyes.
“You’ve heard, haven’t you? Because his older brother, who was the head of the family, was murdered during an affair, he does not hold women. Paying for people and watching their entertainments was his hobby.”
Sophia, with her elegant step, approached and gripped Edith’s chin.
“Ugh―”
“The problem is that his taste is so famous that everyone knows the family has no heir. Do you know how many people are coveting Nicholas Portrion’s wealth, since he appears to have no heir?”
Working in a clinic where people constantly come and go, you inevitably become wellinformed about various stories and rumors.
Thanks to this, Edith could roughly guess what would happen if the lord died.
‘Listening to it, Portrion was said to be valuable, and if the current lord died, there were no blood relatives to inherit the title.’
Just as Sophia said, many must have thought that the Portrion lordship might end this generation.
Even if Nicholas Portrion’s power has waned over the 13 years he has been the head of the family, Portrion is still Portrion.
“Some unscrupulous people will drool, waiting for him to die.”
“…….”
“But thankfully, the lord had a whim at the last moment. He went to your house, proposing to take you as his fourth wife. Thanks to that, Portrion found a way to live.”
“What are you…”
Edith, at a loss for words, immediately refuted.
“I didn’t even know that the lord had bought me. I was caught while escaping, and I can’t possibly be carrying his child.”
“What does that matter, Edith? You are beautiful enough to seduce anyone, and on your body are the marks of Nicholas Portrion.”
Sophia, with an elegant hand gesture, wrapped and gripped Edith’s hair.
“Nicholas has been looking for you for at least a few years and finally found and took you. The previous three wives were impulsively taken, but he searched for you for a long time.”
Why did the lord want me?
But before Edith could express her doubts, Sophia cut her off.
“People already think that the lord whimsically took you in.”
Sophia sent everyone else away but herself. Then, as she tenderly stroked Edith’s flat belly, she whispered.
“Edith, if you want to live, have any man’s child. And deceive everyone as if it’s the lord’s bloodline.”
Edith could not believe what she was hearing.
“In a month, as Nicholas’s fourth wife. Whether the child is the lord’s or not, I will proclaim him as Portrion’s heir.”
Sophia, looking at Edith who stared up at her with clouded eyes, slowly calmed her temperament.
“If it comes to that, while you’re carrying a child for ten months, I’ll deal with those eyeing Fortrion. We’re cooperating as equal wives.”
Of course, other wives greedy for the fortune would have to be dealt with as well.
Sophia said, smiling.
“When the child is about to be born, there’ll be a lumpsum payment, so Edith can take the money and run away with the child. It’s simple, isn’t it?”
To have just any man’s child because it’s necessary for my plan.
‘Crazy woman…….’
Edith shuddered.
Sophia pulled out the dagger the doctor had been holding and thrust it at Edith’s throat. She flinched as she felt the metal.
“Being with me will be beneficial in many ways. Nicholas’s second and third wives are very aggressive. They won’t leave a woman who could possibly share the inheritance alive.”
“…….”
“Nicholas paid off Edith’s family debt, didn’t he? You have to repay him for the food, don’t you?”
Edith firmly shut her mouth. If she didn’t, she felt like she would vomit.
She was disgusted by the woman in front of her telling her to conceive any man’s child if she wanted to live, and cursed her uncle who had put her in this quagmire.
Male lead says he’s pregnant — and it’s female lead’s child
Something seems a bit off about this world.
Wang Zhao thought as she watched a pregnant man walking towards her…
Intro
Female lead finds herself in a world where the men who possess the ability to bear children.
As she navigates this unfamiliar reality, she is caught off guard by the sudden appearance of her boyfriend, who reveals that he is pregnant.
Is this truly her boyfriend?
Why can’t she recall any details about their time together?
She begins to doubt whether the child her boyfriend is carrying is even hers.
Is there a hidden reason behind her amnesia, or could it be a side effect of her sudden arrival in this strange new world?
Just when it seems the protagonist’s life couldn’t become any more entangled, her ex-boyfriend makes an unexpected appearance, raising questions about the protagonist’s past.
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