On a bright spring day.
Months after passing the pharmacist’s exam, Lea finally found employment in a small territory tucked away in the Empire.
Today was Lea’s first day at the challenging job she had secured.
Eagerly anticipated first day of work, she sat in the office with a butler to listen to some basic instructions.
But then.
“… I’m sorry, could you repeat that? Who did you say?”
“He was the former crown prince of this Empire, Count Heidern.”
‘Ah. I’m doomed.’
Sitting in the reception room, Lea quietly murmured as she listened to the butler’s words.
Count Heidern, there wouldn’t be a citizen in the Croatea Empire who didn’t know that name.
Because he is…
‘Wasn’t he not long for this world?’
Count Heidern. He was the eldest son of the previous Emperor of the Croatea Empire, Philips III.
The unfortunate crown prince who should have become the current emperor. Everyone in the Empire knew that the Count had been sickly since his youth.
And so, many thought he didn’t have much time left. No. There were even more people who thought he was already dead.
Therefore, Emperor Philips had no choice but to seat his protected nephew as the crown prince.
After Emperor Philips passed away, his cousin ascended the throne as the current emperor in place of the sickly prince. That’s when the world’s attention to the Count dwindled after his expulsion from the palace.
‘So does that mean the Count is at least on the brink of death right now…?’
As her thoughts reached that point, Lea’s body felt as if it were slightly shaking.
She had heard that if a royal died from an illness, the doctor and pharmacist who treated him couldn’t escape death either.
‘No wonder. The salary was exceptionally high.’
Why had she forgotten? There is no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
Why had she forgotten? Nothing in this world comes for free.
Even so, she had learned this firsthand in her past life in South Korea. Still, she had forgotten that crucial fact.
‘I should have known from the time the salary was set at five silver coins. Ah, I’m going mad.’
Five silver coins amounted to the living expenses of a peasant family of three for two to three months. Yet, that amount was being offered as a monthly salary.
‘And to a novice pharmacist with no experience at all.’
In her 22 years of life, it was the first time she had seen such a large amount being offered as a pharmacist’s salary. Especially from a remote territory whose name she had heard for the first time.
A silent scream slipped from her lips. The tips of her fingers, clutching at the hem of her skirt, trembled.
Anyone would have refused, it was clear. Who would sacrifice their life to save a count with a terminal illness?
Eight years old. While doing chores as usual, Lea suddenly remembered her past life.
As time passed, the memories became clearer, and those memories had been quite helpful in this life. At the very least, she didn’t have to do hard labor.
But if there was one thing she had realized through those memories.
“There’s nothing more important than life.”
After remembering how she had died while running away in her past life, her obsession with life had intensified.
‘Living a long, thin life.’
That had become the goal of her life.
‘No matter how much I love money, I can’t do a pharmacist’s job when I could die at any time!’
As if making a resolution, she lifted her head.
“Butler, it seems there’s been some misunderstanding. I’m just a novice pharmacist. Me, a pharmacist for Count Heidern… it’s far too much for me. So, someone else with better skills…”
“We don’t care. Already the socalled elite of the empire have come and gone. Rather, we would like to see the spirit of a newcomer like Miss Lea.”
She subtly tried to convey her refusal, but she was firmly rejected.
‘Then, I’ll just be straight.’
“I’m sorry, but I don’t fit in with the Count’s household. Let’s consider the contract void.”
Hoping that her room in the capital was still available, she expressed her desire to terminate the contract.
“Well, then we can’t do anything.”
It was only after she saw the butler sighing and rubbing his chin that her expression lightened.
“Thank you for understanding, Butler.”
“Please pay the penalty of fifty silver coins within this week.”
“Yes, I will…… Excuse me?”
‘A penalty?’
At the sudden mention of a penalty, Lea’s body stiffened. Then, as if he knew this would happen, the butler handed her a piece of paper.
“You certainly received five silver coins as a contract payment before coming here. Read the contract carefully. What happens when you unilaterally terminate the contract after receiving the contract payment.”
With trembling hands, she scanned the contract the butler had handed her.
‘I’m ruined.’
Incredibly, there was a clause about a penalty in the contract.
‘The penalty is ten times the contract fee. Such small print was written there.’
Had she been blinded by desperation for a job and a large sum of money? She felt like slapping her past self.
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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