“What’s the matter? Are you alright?”
The moment Edith grimaced, Walter instinctively asked. Before he could think, he had already moved from the chair across from her to the one beside her.
“No, I just feel a bit nauseous.”
Edith gave a vague answer.
Walter quietly pushed aside the untouched food on her plate. Then, he cracked open a window to let in fresh air.
Edith felt guilty for not appreciating the meal he had gone to great lengths to prepare.
This wasn’t the reunion she had vaguely imagined. She didn’t want to be a burden, especially since she had essentially pushed him away in the past.
While she was lost in thought, Walter spoke up first.
“I’ve arranged a place for you to stay in the building used by the mercenary group. We’re headed there now.”
Edith had already been wondering where to go after escaping the estate. She felt shameless but grateful that Walter had found her a place to stay for the night.
She had only packed a few pieces of jewelry, and he had not facilitated her comfortable transfer to the mercenary group. Yet, he cared for her as if she had not wronged him, which gave her a strange sense of illusion.
“Thank you. I’ll find a place to stay as soon as possible so I won’t overstay my welcome.”
“…….”
Walter didn’t react to her hasty plan to leave.
Soon, the carriage stopped in front of the building occupied by the mercenary group, nestled among dense evergreens.
Walter descended first and took Edith’s hand, leading her to the room prepared for her on the second floor.
The room was so warm it seemed as if it could roast a person alive with its roaring fireplace.
Walter placed a pair of slippers, warmed by the fire, in front of Edith.
“Change into these. I’ll bring some food soon.”
“…….”
Edith took her feet out of her rigid, dirty shoes and slid them into the fluffy slippers. A slight smile curled at the corners of her mouth, revealing her momentary happiness.
Whenever he saw her smile like this, Walter wondered how she’d react to bigger gifts. If they ever escaped the estate together, he thought he’d shower her with countless gifts.
However, the arrival of warm and delicious food once again made her grimace.
Her stomach churned at the smell, even though she was starving from skipping several meals.
Noticing that she hadn’t even tasted the soup, Walter asked in a low voice, “Is it the herbs you used for the fake pregnancy that are affecting you?”
“It’s not that, don’t worry.”
There was conviction in Edith’s reply. So, it wasn’t because of the herbs…
When Edith kept rejecting the food he offered, Walter sighed, frustrated.
“Is it because I prepared the food that you don’t like it?”
“What?”
Caught off guard by Walter’s unexpected words, Edith was dumbstruck.
Before she could ask again, Walter kissed her. He had no intention of listening to any excuses she might make.
If she was willing to accept such a sudden kiss, then she shouldn’t have pushed him away in the first place.
All the pent-up anger and resentment erupted.
“You should have trusted me, Edith.”
Hearing his words whispered between their locked lips, Edith’s heart tightened.
“You shouldn’t think I’m only useful at times like this.”
Walter’s hand slid down from her shoulder, and his deep kiss engulfed her, leaving her mind hazy.
But when his hand touched the button at her waist, Edith snapped to her senses and grabbed his arm.
“……Wait, Walter.”
The pulse racing through his arm woke her from the haze that had dulled her senses in the face of ecstasy.
Evading the assassins sent by Sophia to find me, she had entered the secret passage of the mansion and had secretly felt her own pulse.
It was clear pregnancy.
The moment she clearly felt the pulse that should only be caught in a woman carrying a child, her mind turned completely white.
Setting aside what to do with the child for now, she could no longer accept him, now that she knew she was pregnant. Edith calmed her breathing, feeling tension she had never felt before in her life.
As she pondered what story to start with, she eventually decided on the order.
“I have something to say, Walter. Benjamin investigated the kidnapping incident involving the earl.”
“…….”
“If you want to know about your lineage, I’ll explain it to you with objective evidence rather than what I say. To summarize…….”
The moment Benjamin’s name was mentioned, Walter felt like he was going insane. Every time another man’s name came out of her mouth, his heart felt as if it was thrown into icy water.
In the end, he left, slamming the door shut.
Edith, who was going to reveal her pregnancy next, was left alone in the room, staring at the closed door.
Should she have just outright told him she was pregnant?
“But if Walter is of Lexsion lineage or that lineage, as Benjamin said, the child will inherit the blood, and thus would be a target for people like Elizabeth or the earl.”
Although it was Benjamin’s unsupported speculation, it was clear that she couldn’t seriously discuss what to do with the child in her womb without first revealing that fact.
Male lead is a Destined Young Husband (Female-dominant)
One-sentence summary: Wife-master, listen to my explanation!
Li Ruantang, a young lady from a prestigious family, stumbled and fell. When she woke up, she saw a noble and beautiful young man sitting by her bedside, wiping away tears.
The young master had slightly reddened eyes, and his every move exuded charm.
The sight made Li Ruantang’s eyes hot and her heart flutter. After all, she had made a bet with the young master Meng from the neighboring family. If she couldn’t marry a husband before the end of the year, she would have to admit defeat and give up the jade she had worked so hard to obtain.
Outside the window, the flowers were in full bloom.
Rather than losing the bet, the jade, and her face, Li Ruantang calculated that it would be better to seek marriage with the young master in front of her, killing three birds with one stone.
…
Meng Jun never thought that an accident during a spring outing would lead to them rolling down a cliff and into a river, yet still survive.
Now they were trapped in an unknown village, and Meng Jun had overheard that the family who had rescued them had their own intentions.
After all, it was Li Ruantang who had lost her mind and sought marriage first. He was only trying to protect himself!
Glancing at Li Ruantang, who was listing her own merits, the young husband’s voice softened, and he blushed as he lied, “W-wife-master, Wife-master, don’t you remember me?”
The young husband’s voice was clear and handsome, coaxing Li Ruantang’s heart to be soft and sweet, and she spared no effort to protect him.
It wasn’t until they returned to the capital that Li Ruantang suddenly remembered.
When they had fallen off the cliff, in order not to implicate Wei Yunruo, whom he secretly admired, the young husband had instead pulled her, who was slightly farther away, down the cliff with him…
Short summary by Yuushi L: Initially, the male lead (ML) liked another girl, while the female lead (FL) liked the ML. Both fell off a cliff. The FL temporarily lost her memory, and the ML, fearing others might take advantage of him, claimed FL was his wife while they were staying in a village. Later, when they returned home, the FL regained her memories and remembered that the ML liked someone else, so she kept her distance from him. However, during their time living together in the countryside, the ML’s view of the FL had completely changed. From this point, his pursuit of the FL begins.
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