“What’s going on?”
Arthur, who entered the room, quickly walked over and shoved Taylor.
Leaving her behind, he glared at him.
“Don’t touch her. She’s my wife. I’ve only allowed conversation.”
Taylor’s gaze stiffened.
This man…
Arthur Julius.
Is this what they call a war hero?
The vitality of a man who returned from a fierce war victorious was overwhelming.
For a moment, I even felt the sensation of his gray eyes cutting through the air.
He was clearly angry.
And Reyna, with a somewhat dazed expression, was suddenly blinking behind him.
Worried that Reyna might suffer harm, Taylor stepped forward for a moment and spoke quickly.
“I’m Taylor Lawrence, a doctor employed by the Julius family. Nice to meet you, Sir Arthur.”
If he had a monopolizing nature, it was not uncommon for such a person to vent his anger on a woman in situations like this.
Thinking that he had to divert his attention completely to himself, Taylor spoke quickly.
“It seems the young lady hurt her ear due to her earring. If it was intrusive, I apologize.”
“……. ”
Arthur tilted his head without answering and smiled.
It felt like his gaze was piercing. A chilling smile.
“Get out.”
No mercy.
For a moment, Taylor’s eyes caught sight of Reyna.
“……. ”
Reyna was staring blankly at Taylor.
As Arthur moved, he immediately blocked Taylor’s gaze.
“Where are you looking?”
Taylor immediately lowered his head.
“I’m sorry. I’ll leave.”
And as if to make it clear that he did it solely for that reason, he carefully placed the gauze and forceps with disinfectant on the tray so that he could see them.
Thud.
And he pointed to the table where Reyna was sitting.
“I’ll leave this.”
It was Grandma’s medical record.
Arthur said coldly.
“K. Check it.”
One of the knights responded.
“Yes.”
“……. ”
As Taylor stood up to retrieve the dressing tools from his bag, Arthur said.
“Leave that too.”
The hand that was about to tidy up the forceps on the tray stopped.
“I’ll do it.”
Although only a little, the possibility that he wouldn’t vent his anger on Reyna seemed to rise in Taylor’s mind.
Instead, the cold feeling spread as the blood cooled, and his chest tightened.
Taylor, trying not to show his emotions, answered firmly.
“Yes.”
Taylor took out a clean new gauze and disinfectant from the tray and tidied up without a trace of what he had used.
Hoping that he wouldn’t be uncomfortable.
Hoping that he hadn’t made it difficult for Reyna.
Returning to his room in the mansion after a long time, Taylor remembered that he hadn’t prescribed ‘crimson water’ for her.
His hand covering his mouth trembled thinly.
“……. ”
The pressing hand brought to mind the maids, the young ladies, and the mistresses who had come seeking ‘crimson water.’
And those women who suffered from the side effects due to the toxicity of the medicine or experienced pain due to miscarriages.
Among them, there were some who were no longer alive, and others who still suffered from the aftereffects…….
“……. ”
I don’t want to administer such a dangerous medicine to you with my own hands.
But if you don’t take the medicine, you’ll be in a more dangerous situation, right?
“……. ”
At the moment when I stood in front of Reyna, the shock that I could handle hit my throat intensively.
Will you experience such a thing again today?
“……Ugh…….”
Belatedly, it felt like my breath was going to stop.
Taylor finally clenched his chest, leaned against the wall, and sat down hesitantly.
And as he lowered his head and bit his lips, he tried hard to calm himself.
He was engulfed in despair.
Seems like a good guy?
Arthur suppressed the urge to sneer.
It was already a big mistake.
It went far beyond the level of being cute to say that I’m the only one who’s insignificant.
I couldn’t make a bigger mistake here.
My subordinates probably felt that I was unreasonably angry.
Tell Taylor to meet her unconditionally.
Tell him that it’s probably her ultimate goal to go back to him, and regarding that, don’t make her anxious.
Give calm instructions to Kay in that manner.
And then, this is how I behave, in this state.
Arthur cunningly suppressed the anger that had nowhere to go to avoid making the mistake of getting angry at Reyna.
I have to let her go.
I have to let her go…….
She is not guilty.
It wasn’t a marriage for her.
Moreover, she said five years ago that she didn’t have to come back to me.
She told me to change her name and run away.
Why did I want her to come back to you so desperately, even though she said she didn’t want to?
“If you didn’t want to send her, you shouldn’t have. You should have talked about it here, in front of me. You said so. Why did you send her?”
“Did you send her to see how she deliberately does it, to hear what the two of them are talking about?”
Arthur seemed to want to shake Taylor as if he wanted to strangle him.
But no matter how much he searched, he would only confirm that he was a good guy who suited her.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.