Now she understood why these pictures were not hanging in the hall.
‘It wasn’t that they weren’t hung, they couldn’t be hung.’
Suddenly, as if cold water had been poured on her, Lina’s heart sank.
“But.”
Lina looked more closely at the face of the man in the painting.
“Is it because he resembles the Duke? Why is this happening…?”
Her heart had been pounding since earlier. It was then that she was calming her fluttering heart with her hand.
“Lina.”
Someone outside the door was calling her. Wondering who it could be, Lina quickly covered the painting with cloth and opened the door.
“Henry?”
Henry was in the gallery hall, having entered at some point. He smiled when he saw Lina.
“What’s going on here?”
As Lina came out with the cleaning tools she had been using inside, Henry snatched them from her hands.
“I heard you were cleaning here alone, so I came to help.”
“You’re lying. You’re worried, aren’t you? Because of what happened yesterday.”
“You caught me.”
Henry smiled playfully.
“Did you ask the butler for permission? I don’t think he would have allowed it.”
She was being punished to clean alone, so Cullen wouldn’t have allowed it.
“No. I sneaked in!”
“What?”
Startled, Lina struck Henry’s back.
“What if someone sees you? Get out now!”
“Don’t worry. The others have gone to clean the guesthouse, so no one’s around here.”
“Even so!”
At Lina’s worried expression, Henry confidently said,
“It’s okay. Who’s going to come here?”
The gallery hall was a place to show off to important guests, to demonstrate the family’s prestige.
For this reason, nobody usually visited this place.
“But what did you do wrong to make you clean this vast place alone?”
“Last time when I hurt my hand, I broke the Duke’s teacup. It seems it was a treasured heirloom of the family.”
“Then it’s a relief that it ended like this.”
“Well, it is.”
At Henry’s question, Lina gave a bitter smile. Then the memory of the brown jacket trampled by the Duke came to mind.
She had hurried back to find it, but the jacket had already been thrown away.
She found it after hurriedly searching the trash, but it was covered in irremovable filth and torn here and there, so it could not be worn again.
“Henry, about the jacket you lent me yesterday. I actually ruined it by mistake when doing the laundry. I’m sorry.”
The truth was that the Duke had thrown it in the trash, but she couldn’t tell him that.
Henry, who already seemed worried that the Duke might dislike him, was clear in her mind.
“What?”
“Sorry. I’ll buy you something better later… Ah!”
But Lina stopped answering and squinted her eyes down.
“What’s wrong?”
“I think something got in my eye.”
Perhaps because she had been in a dusty place, a sharp foreign feeling was felt in her eye.
“Sigh. Ah, it’s not coming out?”
Lina tried to rub out what had entered her eye with her hand, but only tears came out.
“Come here. Let me take a look.”
Unable to watch any longer, Henry grabbed Lina and examined her eye.
“What is this? It seems like dust has gotten in. It’s bigger than I thought, so wait a moment.”
Holding her eyelid, Henry looked around and brought his mouth close.
“Phew.”
The wind from Henry’s mouth tickled around Lina’s eye.
“Huh? It’s done!”
Lina blinked her eyes and rolled her eyeballs.
“Thank you, Henry. Thanks to you, it seems to have come out……”
But Lina, who was thanking Henry, didn’t finish her sentence.
Because a voice that should not be heard came from the entrance where no one should be.
[This is the time separator]“Something’s odd today.”
Is it because the maid is not by his side right now? A previously subsided headache seemed to be returning.
In fact, Lina didn’t need to be by his side all day.
Even if their bodies brushed against each other for a moment, his head felt clear all day. But today, a thirst that wouldn’t quench kept arising.
Unable to bear the strange discomfort that enveloped him, Duke Valige pulled a bell cord. Soon after, Cullen entered.
“Did you call for me, Your Grace?”
“Why have you come in? Where is Lina?”
“Lina is currently cleaning the gallery hall by herself as punishment.”
“Punishment?”
Only then did Duke Valige recall the incident when Cullen had mentioned Lina’s punishment.
‘She hurt her hand at that time.’
The image of Lina cleaning the gallery hall by herself came to his mind.
Even sturdy male servants would be tired cleaning such a vast space. And she had been cleaning it with an injured hand for days.
He started to worry a bit about the maid who must have struggled all this while. Cullen, quick to sense, caught Duke Valige’s discomfort and asked.
“Shall I bring Lina?”
After a moment’s thought, Duke Valige stood up.
“No, I’ll go myself.”
The punishment was enough by now. If he met Lina, wouldn’t it be alright to let her rest for a day?
With that thought, Duke Valige hastened his steps. But when he was almost at the hall, a faint but recognizable voice reached his ears.
A familiar voice he had heard somewhere.
‘Who is it?’
He had heard she was cleaning the gallery hall alone.
The discomfort he thought had vanished began to resurface.
What had irritated him that day should have ended with Lina’s punishment.
‘Why?’
As he reached the entrance to the gallery hall, two familiar figures caught his eye through the crack in the door.
The scene he had seen in the infirmary a few days ago reappeared before his eyes, and the sensations he had tried to ignore suddenly sprang forth.
And then.
The moment he saw Henry kissing Lina.
He felt the vague form of his emotions become clear.
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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