“Lina, you’ve become the exclusive maid for the returning Duke, haven’t you?”
She had already worked as a maid in the Duchy of Permanence for three years.
By the time Lina returned to the mansion after her summer vacation, she had been appointed as the exclusive maid for the Duke, who had come back from war.
“Has the rumor already spread?”
“Of course! Everyone was watching with bated breath for anything related to the Duke! Susan was so confident that she would become the Duke’s exclusive maid, she looks so foolish now!”
May, with her short brown bob, was buzzing with excitement. Then she slowly approached Lina.
“But Lina, did you hear that rumor?”
“What rumor?”
“The curse of the Permanence Ducal Family.”
“……A curse?”
May looked around and whispered cautiously into Lina’s ear.
“I heard from the kitchen’s Aunt Lilda that… the reason the founding imperial Permanence Ducal Family doesn’t even have a simple heirloom is because they received a divine curse……!”
“A divine curse……?”
“Yeah. The Permanence Family has only had one son to carry on the line since that day, and even that son never lived past thirty. There’s a rumor that even the previous Duke and Duchess died because of that curse.”
The previous Duke and Duchess died in a carriage accident when the current Duke was only eight years old. His age was only 28 at the time.
‘He died so young.’
“So when our young Duke was dragged off to the battlefield without an heir, everyone murmured that this might be the end of the barely surviving Permanence line. But to come back having honored the country like this……”
May, blushing, clasped her hands to her cheeks, as if she were telling a fairy tale.
“Doesn’t it sound like a male lead in a novel who has a tragic past?”
Lina looked at May and smiled gently.
“Alright, let’s stop talking and finish cleaning first. You continue cleaning the stairs. I’ll quickly mop the corridor and help you.”
“Oh! My mind! Got it!”
As Lina watched May’s retreating figure, she picked up a mop.
“A divine curse.”
The current Duke was twentyfive years old, so if May’s words were true about the curse, it meant he had only five more years to live.
“Poor thing……”
Some want to die but can’t, while others want to live but can’t. It was an ironic situation.
Long ago, Lina had been cursed by someone and had her beauty taken away.
Because of that, she could only return to her original form once a month, only on the full moon night.
To regain her original appearance, she needed true love that would love her even in this pitiful form.
‘It’s not even a children’s fairy tale book.’
The strange thing was that she couldn’t remember anything before being cursed.
All she could remember were the two letters of her name, Lina, and the fact that she had been cursed.
Who cursed her, when, how old she was, whether she had parents or siblings, she couldn’t know.
Eventually, unable to bear the fear of being left alone in the world, Lina had jumped off a cliff during a storm to end her life.
But what came back was not the peace of death.
The strange sound of bones crushing and the terrible pain just before death.
Only then did she realize that it was not just her beauty that had been taken away. She might have been lost in thought about the past for a while.
“Aaagh!”
A sharp scream, followed by the sound of something hitting the floor hard, brought Lina back to reality.
“That voice…… May?”
She threw down the broom and ran to where the sound had come from.
“May!”
Sure enough, May had fallen, as if she had rolled down the stairs.
“Lina…… Ugh!”
Lina, looking at Mei, tried to rise to her feet but stumbled with a groan, as if she had hurt her leg, and fell weakly.
“Mei! Are you okay? Lean on my shoulder! Let’s go to the infirmary right away!”
Lina supported Mei and headed towards the infirmary.
The door creaked open.
As Lina opened the infirmary door and went in, there sat Hans, an assistant to the house’s main physician from the Ferimanence family.
Lina seated Mei on the infirmary bed and asked Hans for treatment. But the response she received was a cold refusal.
“What? You can’t treat her?”
“I told you, I’m busy right now. I don’t have time for a mere maid who’s sprained her leg.”
Glaring at Hans’s desk with a disdainful expression and tone, signs of word puzzlesolving could be casually seen.
Watching him, Lina barely swallowed the curse that threatened to come out of her throat and managed to continue speaking.
“Then, at least allow me to use some medicine. I’ll treat her myself.”
“I can’t let an ignorant maid like you use the precious medicine of the Ferimanence family recklessly. If you really want to treat her, go dig some herbs in the Alina Forest.”
“Hans!!”
Despite Lina’s shouted interruption, Hans left the room leisurely as if he had no more business with her.
Bang!
“Sigh.”
This was not the first time Hans had refused to treat Lina and Mei like this.
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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