Although it wasn’t my fault that Klaus was fuming, I felt like I had to apologize.
“I apologize, Your Highness. I had no idea he would come looking for me like this.”
“Is he someone you know, Müsel?” Klaus asked with an angry expression. I shook my head.
“I’ve only encountered him once. I don’t know him well.”
“Did you have an appointment to meet today?”
Strangely, Klaus had a lot of questions. I felt a bit uneasy.
Still, I answered earnestly.
“Actually, I was supposed to see the Empress after her dinner, but since we work together in the palace, I thought he would understand the situation if he knew I was here.”
This was what I really wanted to say.
The prince’s aide is literally by the prince’s side in all his comings and goings.
Lumi herself became the Empress’s aide, right? So, she should have anticipated the possibility of sudden overtime.
Even if Lumi didn’t know and made a mistake, what about the maid? She wasn’t originally from the Empress’s palace. How could she be so thoughtless?
Klaus narrowed his eyes and looked at me.
“So, what do you plan to do?”
“Excuse me?”
I didn’t understand why Klaus was suddenly glaring at me.
I calmly replied, adhering to principle.
“Of course, assisting Your Highness is my top priority.”
The answer was already set. Who in the world would dare say they’d go meet a woman they barely knew over their future emperor boss?
Klaus seemed amused that I would say that. His expression finally relaxed a bit.
“Good. I thought you’d say that.”
He stood up from his seat and pushed aside a pile of documents on the desk.
“Müsel. This much work needs to be completed by you tonight. Looks like we’re both stuck here.”
I was speechless. Obviously, his share of work was also huge, but this was too transparent.
I swallowed my tears and bowed my head.
“I’ll do my best to ensure Your Highness can retire early tonight.”
Damn, the prince is definitely sulking about something.
The next morning, when it was still dark, I woke up to the sound of someone pounding on the door.
“Who is it?”
“It’s from the princess.”
I quickly put on a robe and tied the waistband tightly, making sure my chest was covered.
“From the princess?”
Through the narrow gap in the door, I saw the maid who had given me the note. She looked very serious.
“Please come with me immediately. The princess has been restless all night.”
“So, you’re telling me to go out like this?”
“Yes.”
Her answer was very firm.
Annoyed but with no choice, I quickly put on a thick hooded robe and followed the maid.
The dawn of winter was pitch black. I relied on the faint light from the maid’s lantern to walk.
Finally, we arrived at a place.
“Where are we?”
The maid answered.
“It’s an unused building. Please go inside. The person is waiting for you.”
My eyes had adapted to the darkness. I cautiously moved forward.
At that moment, a familiar voice rang out.
“Looks like you slept well?”
The tone was filled with sharpness. Lumi seemed thoroughly offended.
I shrugged my shoulders towards the faintly visible shadow.
“I am an aide to the Crown Prince, after all. There’s no such thing as a fixed quitting time for me. You know that, don’t you?”
“And who doesn’t know they are an aide?”
Her voice, though low, was full of agitation. Clearly, this wasn’t a situation that could be smoothed over easily.
Then, I had no choice but to be serious too.
“How could I possibly step out when the Crown Prince is watching? Even in real life, leaving work while your boss is deep into it feels awkward. And what excuse should I make? Should I say, ‘I have an appointment with Lady Elfrida, so I must leave now’?”
I ended up speaking at length due to the accumulated frustrations.
Immediately, Lumi cut in with a sharp voice.
“Can’t you be a bit flexible? Don’t tell me you actually think you’re really the Crown Prince’s aide? Tone down your over-immersion a bit!”
I couldn’t help but let out a hollow laugh at Lumi’s words. Who would’ve thought I’d hear such a thing from Lumi of all people.
“You’re the one who needs to tone down your over-immersion. You’re not Elfrida. You’re Lumi!”
“At least I haven’t lost my mind to the point of breaking my friend’s promise to play around with the male lead, Eojin.”
Lumi had approached me so closely that I could finally see her face clearly.
I retorted without backing down.
“Who’s playing around? With mountains of work left, it’s only natural for an aide to work together! I also worked overtime late into the night, didn’t the maid tell you?”
“I sent her back because she told me you were still in the office! You should’ve taken the hint from such a clear sign!”
“What excuse could possibly work in front of the Crown Prince? What’s more important than the future emperor to use as an excuse? Can you tell me?”
My head was throbbing. How could I possibly convince her of her absolute self-centeredness?
Even in real life, leaving work early is difficult. Who would dare say in front of their direct boss, who happens to be the son of the company owner, ‘I have a meeting with a friend, so I must leave’?
Perhaps due to her almost non-existent economic activities as a nominal freelancer, Lumi might not fully understand these subtle difficulties of social life. Or maybe she’s still too narrow-sighted because of her depression.
Still, if she knows I didn’t intentionally stand her up, she should understand as a friend, right?
But what followed was truly shocking.
“Sob!”
“Hey, are you crying?”
When I didn’t easily give in, Lumi started to sob pathetically!
She soon began to cry sorrowfully.
“Eojin, you. Sob, you’re really mean. Sob!”
“Uh…”
I was at my wit’s end. What do I become if she starts crying like that?
I didn’t mean to deliberately ignore Lumi, and I tried to explain that I had my own reasons, but in the end, I became the bad guy.
I couldn’t believe it and just stared at him for a moment.
That’s right. It’s better to quickly finish the matter at hand and return to my room than to argue about who’s right or wrong. It’s almost like I’m about to freeze to death in my pajamas in the cold winter dawn.
“Alright, alright. Lumi, I’m sorry. I’ll definitely keep my promise next time, so let’s start talking.”
“Wah!”
“Stop crying already! I said I’m sorry, didn’t I?”
“Sorry, sob, is that it? Do you even know how worried I was? Sob!”
Lumi couldn’t stop her tears easily.
“No…”
This is insane.
But since I’ve already bowed my head, there’s no problem in lowering it a bit more. I apologized to Lumi again.
“Alright, I was very thoughtless. I won’t do this again. Really.”
“Sob…”
“Agh, if I keep placating like this, it’ll be morning!”
I quickly changed the subject.
“The day you came to the Crown Prince’s palace, the male lead was seriously upset. He said you hadn’t even properly learned the basic laws of the palace.”
Lumi then sniffled loudly and replied in a voice still tinged with sobs.
“That’s not a big deal. He might have been momentarily baffled, but ultimately, it turned out well.”
“Turned out well?”
It was an unexpected response. I couldn’t understand what she meant. How could it be good when she had severely lost points with the male lead?
Lumi lifted her chin. Her face still bore tear stains, but she looked somewhat haughty.
“At least the male lead now has me etched in his mind in some way or another. Like it or not, he’ll always be aware of my existence. That’s how he starts to take an interest in me.”
“Uh, huh?”
I felt like I had been hit on the head by Lumi’s words.
She looked at me as if I didn’t understand something obvious.
“In romance novels, the female and male leads usually get entangled like this. Especially if they have a hate relationship, it’s almost like a formula.”
I pressed my throbbing head, too stunned to think of a response.
Lumi was just overflowing with confidence.
“Just watch. Now the male lead will gradually start falling for me.”
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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