Her heart was beating irregularly.
More rapidly.
Sephia asked as if it was nothing.
“Do you know who she is?”
“She’s a cousin from the deer family. I heard she’s very frail and is only now preparing for her debut.”
An image of her appeared in Sephia’s mind.
Delicate and beautiful, a deer, the epitome of loveliness itself.
Amidst Sephia’s silence, the vole lady nervously chimed in.
“It’s just a one-sided Name, nothing to worry about.”
“That’s right. It’s not common, so His Majesty must have gone out of curiosity.”
They were right.
A woman bearing his Name would naturally intrigue him.
“That must be it.”
Sephia nodded.
Suddenly, the dream she had today felt like a premonition.
The tea time, now slightly awkward, ended a bit early.
As the evening fell and night deepened, there was still no news from Deimos.
Sephia gazed out of the bedroom window.
By now, the rumor would have spread throughout the entire palace.
She pondered over the information she gathered at tea time, gazing beyond the night sky.
“Adopted into the Louvre Count’s family.”
Originally, they were cousins, but recently she had been adopted into the Louvre.
Adoption of adult relatives among nobility wasn’t uncommon.
Usually, it meant the person was needed by the family.
Having lived as an orphan for a long time, it was likely they adopted her after realizing she bore the Emperor’s Name.
A woman with the Emperor’s Name was indeed special.
A sigh escaped Sephia’s lips, silent as a whisper.
‘A Name.’
A Name meant physically imprinting on someone.
Those with a Name provided comfort and a strong attraction to the person whose name they bore.
But there was one more crucial aspect.
Was it a one-sided Name? Or mutual?
A half and a perfect union could lead to different outcomes.
She found herself hugging her own arms for comfort.
“It’s okay. I don’t know anything yet.”
A Name could appear anywhere on the body.
It was known that the Name gradually surfaced on the skin over about a month.
At first, it would be so faint it might seem like a smudge, only to become clearly an imprint after a few days.
‘I don’t even know his body.’
Sephia and Deimos were known as a friendly couple.
They maintained a line between them, and at times seemed somewhat affectionate.
He, as the Emperor, was willing to fulfill her wishes, and she, as the Empress, did the same.
But the known facts weren’t everything.
Sephia looked down.
At the window, her exhaled breath fogged, settling in place.
The Therian Empire was a land of four seasons.
Perhaps due to the onset of autumn, the difference between indoor and outdoor temperatures was starkly visible.
The breath on the window would slowly fade away into the air.
Unlike the anxiety firmly lodged in her heart.
“It’s time for you to sleep.”
A maid, concerned about Sephia standing at the window for a long time, approached and draped a shawl over her.
Looking back, all three maids wore worried expressions.
‘They must have heard the news.’
By now, it would be a matter of time before everyone beyond the palace knew.
Sephia forced a smile and nodded.
“Could you prepare a cup of warm tea? I should have that before bed.”
“I’ll bring you a tea that helps with sleep.”
The maid, seemingly pleased to be of service, hurried off to prepare the tea.
Sephia sipped her steaming tea, lost in thought again.
A Name imprint was not always romantic.
In fact, it was closer to tragedy.
A twisted relationship dictated by an unchangeable fate. If not the lead, it was only pain.
In arts like plays and operas, a subject long cherished was colder to the extras in reality.
‘But it’s okay.’
I am still the Empress, and that won’t change.
This was her only comfort, and Sephia sighed.
Suddenly, she remembered the dream she had today, along with the past that hadn’t appeared in it.
The Empress of the Huron Empire.
Now the Dowager Empress, she used to call Sephia every dawn for mental abuse.
‘You’re a useless child and that fact will never change even when you grow up.’
Those words always isolated young Sephia.
But not anymore.
Sephia, having set down her cup, clenched her hand.
‘I have become the most useful person and will maintain my position.’
Although the place wasn’t her homeland, it had become her rightful place.
And it was here, bestowed by the goddess of a foreign land.
So, Sephia had to stay here.
No matter what.
Sephia ended up staying awake all night, plagued with worries.
The cause of her concern.
It was not until the next afternoon that she could face her husband.
A tranquil afternoon.
The main garden of the Emperor’s Palace was adorned with splendid autumn roses.
Sephia, dressed for the outdoors, headed to a secluded part of the rose garden.
It was for the Emperor’s tea time invitation.
Tea time was much shorter than mealtime.
Opting for tea instead of a meal, and that too outdoors, meant that Sephia was allotted only a brief moment of his time.
This fact was somewhat bitter, but she couldn’t show it.
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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