There had been no news yet from Philip, whom he had sent to the capital. Originally, he planned to decide Lina’s fate based on the truth. However.
“It doesn’t matter now.”
Regardless of the truth Philip would bring, he had to keep Lina by his side.
“I can just use her the same way.”
And it was when he tightly clenched the ring he had been fiddling with.
“Duke!”
A desperate voice came from outside the door. It carried the news he had been waiting for the most.
[This is the time separator]The sound of dripping water repeated quietly in this place, where only a chill breeze lurked.
Lina, opening her eyes with a furrowed brow, involuntarily groaned. Perhaps because of the hard floor, her entire body was screaming.
“Ugh……”
The musty smell around her pricked her nose.
“Where is this……?”
Shivering in the thin cold, she looked around. A cold stone floor. A narrow and dark space without a single window. And.
Thick iron bars blocking her way.
‘It’s a prison.’
With a lightningfast realization, Lina, who had hastily gotten up, let out a small scream and fell back down.
“Ugh……”
Blood was oozing from her right arm. It seemed she had hurt her arm while being dragged here. Lina examined her condition by the nearby torchlight.
Her clothes were already torn here and there, and dirt and dust were stuck all over them.
“It really looks like I was caught while fleeing.”
Although she couldn’t see it, her face probably bore bruises here and there. Lina sighed softly and started to look around the prison.
“How much time has passed?”
Without windows, she couldn’t tell the time.
‘It was around 2 PM before I lost consciousness. At the earliest, it’s probably evening now.’
In the end, Lina’s plan to return to the mansion had all turned to naught.
Judging from the situation, it seemed someone who recognized her had caught her hoping for the bounty.
Looking at the dark place filled with damp chill, Lina began to ponder the events that had happened to her.
She had been attacked in the back alley, suddenly strangled, and lost consciousness. She touched the back of her head with her uninjured arm.
There was still a numb feeling in her head.
“I should have just gone back to the mansion the next day.”
It wasn’t like she had walked into the mansion on her own, and with this appearance, who would believe her innocence if she were captured?
‘Should I escape?’
However, the possibility that he had already been caught was high. If he escaped now, he didn’t know if the crime of jailbreak might be added.
The distant future made his head throb.
“But why do I have such a bad premonition?”
Despite having enough bad luck already, it felt like it hadn’t ended yet. The familiar discomfort had been chilling his back for a while now.
And such bad premonitions were never wrong.
He was trembling with a nervousness he couldn’t quite understand when strange footsteps began to descend from above the stairs.
‘Someone is coming. A guard?’
As he listened to the increasingly closer presence, a man entered with the creaking sound of the door.
But because of the deep darkness, he couldn’t see the man’s face. Lina furrowed her brow and stared at the man’s face intently.
‘Ah.’
Lina’s mouth opened slowly, accompanied by a short sigh. Even in the prison, relying only on a small candle, the man’s yellow eyes exerted their presence without regret.
And the moment she saw his two eyes, she didn’t have to strive to see the man’s face.
‘Duke…?’
As the man took one step closer, his face became clearer. And when the man came close, a chilly voice echoed in her ear.
“I’ve been looking for you for a while.”
The man’s gaze, looking down at Lina with his head tilted, made her hands and feet numb.
“So, how was your last freedom?”
His cavernous deep voice seemed to freeze even the surrounding air. The sudden appearance of an unexpected person made her whole body stiffen.
‘Why is he here…?’
She thought he would be elegantly waiting for her, soon to be taken, at the mansion. And the last freedom? The man was speaking incomprehensible words.
Valige was looking down at Lina condescendingly through the iron bars. His golden eyes were flickering like a burning torch.
“Lina.”
And before she could respond to his call, the man, smirking, corrected himself.
“Ah, wasn’t your name not Lina?”
“What are you…”
At the man’s unexpected words, her eyebrows twitched.
With a clattering sound and the chilling sound of the rusty iron door, the two’s silence was broken. And the thick iron door that seemed not to open showed its gap.
As Valige, who had been slowly approaching, enjoying the sitting Lina, knelt to her eye level.
“What is your real identity?”
At the quiet question from the man, Lina realized.
This man wasn’t inquiring about the missing item. Nor was he asking suddenly about why she had disappeared.
“Your Grace, I am…”
As Lina struggled to gather her trembling voice to explain,
“That expression as if you know nothing.”
And Valige, as if such an appearance was pretentious, whispered, staring at her quivering eyes.
“And with those naive eyes.”
Valige, who had approached, lifted Lina’s chin with his blackgloved hand.
“You must have deceived everyone like that. Collen too. Emma too. And even me.”
‘He knows everything. This man.’
All the things she had forged to work as a maid in the Fernanance mansion.
He must have found out about her through this incident. Why hadn’t she thought that far?
Lina swallowed her dry spit and sighed inwardly.
“That statement must have been a lie too.”
Therefore, she didn’t quite hear the last words that flowed from Valige’s mouth.
“I.”
He caressed Lina’s cheek. Quite gently.
“What should I do with you?”
It was a sweet voice that did not match the pale look in his eyes.
Top Celebrity Younger Brother Bears Her Child (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: Forced to live stream romance with a top celebrity in a female-dominant world.
Yan Jin transmigrated into a brothel, with a fellow transmigrated junior beside her.
Hearing the obscene words coming from outside, the unfortunate junior covered his ears tightly, his cheeks flushed red, and whispered to comfort her, “Don’t worry, I will definitely help you escape.”
“Don’t worry, I will definitely defend your chastity.” Yan Jin looked at the flawless and delicate features of the unfortunate junior and gently comforted, “Because we have transmigrated into a female-dominant world.”
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Top celebrity Yu Shu suddenly fell into a coma during a concert.
Research scientist Yan Jin fainted in the lab after working overtime.
Two people with no connection were rushed to the same hospital.
Three days later, neither of them had woken up.
Suddenly, the entire nation discovered that a live streaming app had been forcibly installed on their phones.
Upon opening it, they heard the two discussing how to escape from the brothel.
The entire internet was in an uproar.
After the two successfully escaped from the brothel, Yu Shu’s fan group rushed to make a banner and sent it to the hospital overnight.
“Big sister bravely took action to defend the chastity of our idol!”
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When Yu Shu was diagnosed with pregnancy, Yan Jin stared at his belly for a long time.
Covering his stomach, he muttered gloomily, “If you don’t like it, I’ll go get an abortion.”
“It’s not that I don’t like it.” Yan Jin hugged Yu Shu and said softly, “I just feel like I’m not human.”
Yu Shu comforted Yan Jin, “I was already an adult when we got together.”
Yan Jin hesitated, “But you won’t be of legal marriageable age even after giving birth to the child.”
At the same time, a flood of bullet comments appeared in the live streaming room that the two couldn’t see.
[Although it’s inappropriate, I also want a young and handsome boyfriend to have my child.]
①Male pregnancy (highlighted)
The female lead is five years older than the male lead, and the male lead is already an adult when he appears.
