But Estelle’s answer was a bit peculiar.
“It’s not strange to be scared of a husband I meet for the first time as a wife.”
Soon, the scared reaction disappeared, and her clear and shiny eyes like a baby rabbit stared at him curiously.
That gaze strangely stirred people’s desires.
“You were abandoned by your family and sold to me, weren’t you?”
So Johann decided to stimulate her and shake her once more.
“It was for money.”
Quiet ripples spread in Estelle’s navy eyes.
“Do you not feel a sense of betrayal towards your parents?”
“I don’t… feel betrayed.”
The woman who cautiously opened her mouth, her eyelashes whiter than silver and seemed silver than her platinum hair.
“I’m grateful just for the fact that they adopted me, an orphan, and raised me until now.”
It was an exemplary answer, as expected, yet unexpected.
“Now that the age for my parents to take care of me has passed, I should fulfill my duty.”
“How do you plan to fulfill your duty?”
“I don’t really know, but I’ll do my best to help as much as I can now that I’m married.”
Now Johann understood why she could act so innocently.
‘She was indeed raised nicely, as the rumors said.’
Because of that, she couldn’t properly grasp the situation and seemed to believe that this marriage was normal.
‘Really…’
She looked perfect to play with.
Johann slowly reached out his hand towards her face. His fingertips strangely wrapped around Estelle’s cheek, and tickled her ear.
Estelle shuddered her shoulders as if conscious of it.
“Will you do your best?”
He asked, curling his lips.
“It’s not something that can happen just because you want it, wife.”
“That, then.”
“Then?”
Johann tilted his head slightly to match her gaze as she seemed to be pondering and giggling unknowingly.
“What do you think I should do, Duke?”
The purity felt in her response had a strangely mesmerizing aspect.
Suddenly, he remembered the moment he was dealing with her. The Duke Libertan, who was in a predicament with a mountain of debts, suggested it to him.
‘She’s pretty as the rumors say, she’ll surely please the Duke.’
‘It doesn’t matter what you do until you get your anger out. She’s still a child who carries the name of the Duke Libertan’s family. She must have deep resentment.
He offered his adopted daughter, who he said he raised with love, as a sacrifice.
‘Doesn’t he care what happens to the daughter he cherished so much?’
‘…One has to use all that is of use. She will understand if it’s for the continuation of the Duke Libertan’s family.’
Perhaps he dared to make such a suggestion, thinking that he was not the eldest son of the Blanchett family whom they had killed, but a distant relative.
So, Libertan abandoned this woman.
He even handed her over to him, telling him to get his anger out.
A fake who was sold like she was thrown away even by her family.
And as if supporting his words, this fake did not harbor any resentment towards her family at all.
Her strangely devoted look touched his nostalgic memories, and he even lost his heart to ridicule.
‘This is a bit strange.’
He had been longing for this moment of revenge for a long time.
Although he should rightfully enjoy this sweet revenge to the fullest, something bothering kept popping up in a corner of his heart.
“Indeed, such issues are quite difficult.”
Estelle nodded her head and laughed bashfully.
“But I’ll try my best to be of help to you, Duke.”
Perhaps, more than he thought, this woman was too innocent and pure.
The woman, abandoned by all, perhaps reminded him of his most unfortunate times.
But that was all there was to it.
It was not a reason to change the plan.
He still intended to inform this foolish woman of the sins his foster parents committed, then shatter her most miserably.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]The villain left me in a room in the mansion and disappeared.
Only after Johan closed the door and left, and all signs of presence had disappeared, did I finally catch my breath.
‘Did I respond strangely?’
I didn’t expect much from the Duke and Duchess of Libertan, so I had no sense of betrayal. But I was unnecessarily worried that this part might look suspicious.
‘But I handled it well.’
One more reassuring thing was that, like the original, I shared a room with the villain.
Not everything going as per the original was good, but it seemed like I would be able to sleep comfortably at night.
Knock knock.
As soon as I sat down on the bed, a maid knocked on the door and greeted me. She was a maid with brown hair and a calm impression.
But something felt familiar.
“Hello, ma’am. Starting today, I have been assigned to serve you. I am Betty, it is an honor to serve you.”
‘I remembered.’
She was the maid who had betrayed me at Johan’s order in the original work.
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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