The Duke Only Needs My Child (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 40
The guild was as boisterous as ever.
Though it was long past the hour when everyone should have been asleep, the tavern’s atmosphere had only just reached its peak.
Mikhail, standing behind the bar as usual, skillfully mixed a cocktail and handed it to the customer before him.
“Oh, drinks from a man taste awful. Aren’t there any women? A pretty older sister, maybe?”
Just as Mikhail was dealing with the drunken patron, another bartender entered the bar area.
“Mikhail. It’s time for your shift change.”
Though his tone was casual, his eyes held genuine respect when looking at Mikhail—after all, no one in this guild dared place themselves above him.
Mikhail left the bar and headed upstairs to the second floor.
The gentle, affable smile he’d worn before the guests vanished, replaced by a cold glint in his eyes behind his glasses.
As if waiting for him, one of his subordinates approached and handed him a document.
“It’s the personal dossier on the subject you wanted investigated. Since he’s a knight of Delmarque, I had to travel all the way to the Delmarque territory—it took longer than expected.”
“Good work.”
The subordinate bowed deeply and stepped away. Mikhail flipped through the documents he’d received.
The papers concerned the background of “Caligo Elparind,” whom Blair had commissioned for investigation fifteen days prior.
[Abandoned in front of the temple immediately after birth, he was discovered and taken in by a priest, growing up in the orphanage within the temple.
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Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”

Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
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This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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Vasundra Devi SK Chapter 41Oh Knight is suspicious if he happen to raised by temple when means he might have connection with priestess
Hari_zumboe Chapter 41The pronouns of Blair were a little confusing, can that be changed??
Lemons Chapter 41Please edit the chapters. This one had a change of pronouns for Blair, and she was being referred to as he/him. It gets confusing
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Tita Skz01 Chapter 41 — Paragraph 94Only then did Herdin reply in his usual dry tone.
Oh friend… You just have a little trouble being honest, the world isn’t going to end! – “Why was I worried you’d get wet?” Those must have been the words, I want to cry
Meep55 Chapter 41 — Paragraph 48But her thin stomach, offering nothing but her own skin to touch, only deepened
This must feel terrible. It’s been so long since she saw her child. I really can’t wait until Herdin recovers past memories. He needs to grovel for Blair’s forgiveness
AKUMA is an akuma Chapter 41 — Paragraph 66Blair alternated her gaze between his outstretched hand and his face, then place
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VKotaku28
Micheal!! You look like you will give me severe second lead syndrome
Mariel Soto
Calisto was an orphan under the guidance of the priest he might have a connection with miera who also a pristest hmmmm somethings Fishy, and ohh mikhail im rooting for you
Vasundra Devi SK
Second lead syndrome is kinda hitting but also Katrina I hate I know for the fact you are behind the arson
nadeee
i love blair’s character development in this chapter 🥹❤️
Ai Love
Its getting interesting! Let’s goooo! Need more hahahahahah