“Nia, I think I need to go gather the laundry first. Can you carry this by yourself?”
At her friend’s words, maid Nia nodded vigorously.
“Of course!”
“Carry it carefully so it doesn’t break!”
“Ugh, don’t worry!”
Nia confidently lifted the flowerpot containing the plant.
Now, all she had to do was place it upstairs and then come back down to gather the laundry, and her work for the day would be done.
‘I think I’ll finish work early today!’
It was when Nia was eagerly climbing the stairs.
“Eek!”
She stumbled, her body tilting forward. Sensing the imminent accident, Nia tightly closed her eyes.
But her tilting body abruptly stopped in midair before hitting the ground.
Nia slowly opened her eyes. A stranger, a man, had caught her.
“Uh…?”
“Are you all right?”
Nia, flustered, scrambled to her feet. Barely regaining her balance, Nia bowed her head in a fluster.
“Thank you, thank you so much!”
“It’s nothing, I’m glad you’re okay.”
The man gave a faint smile. Nia’s gaze scrutinized him intently.
After the situation had settled, she became curious. A face she’d never seen before?
“Who are you? I’ve never seen you before…”
“Oh, I work at the count’s house. Our master is from the Life family, one of the Duke’s affiliated families.”
The busyness of today was indeed because of that meeting.
So, seeing unfamiliar faces today was quite common.
Nia lightly nodded her head.
“Ah! I see. Has the meeting already started?”
“Yes, it’s been underway for a while now.”
The man smiled, taking the flowerpot Nia had been carrying.
“I’m going that way too, so I’ll carry it for you.”
“Oh my!”
Nia blushed.
Her caution quickly melted away, and Nia chattered as they moved along.
Nia’s chatter did not end until they passed through the corridor.
It wasn’t until they arrived back at the stairs that Nia realized she had entrusted her burden to a stranger for too long.
“Oh my, please give me the flowerpot! I’ll carry it now.”
“It’s fine, I’m running an errand anyway. The corridor to the library is the right way, isn’t it?”
“Yes, it is!”
“I’ll keep carrying it. I’m going that way anyway.”
Thanks to him, Nia was able to finish her errand comfortably. Since the flowerpot was surprisingly heavy, she was mostly just grateful.
“Are you going down now? I want to thank you somehow…”
“I would like that too, but I still haven’t finished my errand.”
“Ah, right! You said you had an errand.”
“Yes.”
The man responded with a light smile.
It seemed like she had found a compatible person for once. Nia left, her sense of regret pushed aside, and started down the stairs alone.
But just before she went down the stairs, a thought struck her, and she stopped in her tracks.
‘Why would a servant from another family come all the way up here on an errand?’
The doubt crossed her mind briefly, but Nia didn’t ponder it. She remembered that she still had many things left to do.
That was indeed a stroke of luck for Nia.
Had she looked back, she would have witnessed the man standing in front of the Duke’s study. And that man believed that killing witnesses was less troublesome than threatening them.
‘So foolish.’
The man brushed off his hands. It had been cumbersome, but thanks to her, he had made it here without suspicion.
After confirming Nia had left completely, he entered the room.
Silently closing the door, he approached the teapot on the desk.
Then, he took a small pouch from his pocket and shook its contents into it.
The white powder mixed into the tea in the blink of an eye.
As he finished his task and turned to leave, there was a faint sound, like a breeze seeping in next to the bookshelf.
언뜻 모르고 지나칠 만큼 작은 소리였다. 대수롭지 않게 생각한 남자는 뒤도 돌아보지 않은 채 방문 앞으로 걸어갔다.
방문을 열기 전, 문득 불안감이 들었다.
순간적으로 뒤를 돌아본 남자가 성큼성큼 소리가 난 쪽으로 걸음을 옮겼다.
“You……!”
어두운 그림자 안에 숨어 있던 작은 아이와 눈이 마주쳤다.
[This is a time separator.]눈이 마주쳤다.
‘It’s ruined.’
It was a servant he had seen earlier in the meeting room. It wasn’t simply that he was surprised to see him.
He had expected him to be the perpetrator who had poisoned the Duke’s tea.
He didn’t really expect him to be hiding in the Duke’s room. He had just stepped into the Duke’s room to see if the perpetrator had already visited.
But then the door opened, and he had hastily hidden in the closet.
‘What to do, what to do.’
He should have been more careful, but he had been too careless.
After a brief silence, the man spoke to me calmly.
“Little one, why are you here? Come here.”
The man bent down and gave me a gentle smile.
“You’re good, aren’t you? Come on, I’ll take you to your room.”
“Yeah.”
I pretended to reach out my hand, then rolled on the floor to dodge him.
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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