Celiya blinked her eyes a few times before bursting into a small laugh. The sound of Celiya’s clear laughter echoed throughout the room.
In contrast, Dietrich seemed extremely displeased.
“What are you laughing about as if you did something great?”
“Because you’re so entertaining.”
Celiya narrowed her eyes in laughter and moved closer to Dietrich.
Dietrich, barely reaching his shoulders, looked down at Celiya with narrowed eyes.
“There’s some bread crumbs on your lips. I’d like it if you wiped them off.”
At Celiya’s words, Dietrich furrowed his brows, seemingly incredulous.
“Stop playing games.”
Celiya looked at Dietrich as if he were a curiosity. If he were an ordinary man, he would have effortlessly told her everything he knew and didn’t want to know.
Still, the fact that he was becoming more expressive was a good sign to Celiya.
Celiya was throwing frivolous jokes at Dietrich, but it wasn’t done thoughtlessly.
Celiya was well aware that Dietrich was different from any other man.
Even when the knight had entered the prison intending to do something with her, she knew that had she escaped from prison without him, she would have been recaptured in no time.
Dietrich had said that her life was his to claim, so it would also be his decision to take it.
So she had used her abilities, chipping away at her lifespan, waiting for the unpredictable Dietrich. All of it was to lower his guard around her.
The moment when Dietrich would fully trust her might never come. Conversely, Celiya also didn’t trust Dietrich.
Even as she made eye contact with him and spat out trivial words, Celiya was always calculating Dietrich in her mind.
When would Dietrich answer her about the abilities, how did he know about the existence of the abilities?
‘And, what your real identity is, hidden behind the title of Captain of the Royal Knights.’
Dietrich wasn’t about to answer her now. Celiya hid her real intentions and threw out a taunting question.
“Why does wiping away breadcrumbs become a scheme? Have you, perhaps, thought something strange about me?”
“…….”
At Celiya’s wide-eyed question, Dietrich’s eyes went quiet. His deep eyes, like a distant abyss, stared at Celiya calmly.
Instead of responding to Celiya’s foolish words, he laid out the real matter at hand.
“…You have to go with me to spy on the empress soon.”
“The empress?”
Celiya blinked at the incomprehensible words. Dietrich took a handkerchief from his pocket and somewhat roughly wiped away the breadcrumbs from the corner of her mouth.
“To relieve stress like this… Couldn’t you be a bit gentler?”
Dietrich made a face as if extremely annoyed. He practically thrust the handkerchief into Celiya’s hand and continued speaking.
“We successfully got you out of prison, but you are still someone who attempted to assassinate the Emperor. Are you aware of that?”
“I am aware.”
Dietrich was not pleased with Celiya’s response. Normally, if someone saved your life, gratitude would be the least one could expect. However, she had consistently maintained her disrespectful attitude, both in prison and now.
She didn’t even use honorifics and seemed to be making a mockery of him.
Dietrich knew that the Celiya who had suffered in pain and the Celiya standing before him now were one and the same. However, it was hard to believe.
It was incredible that she, who had groveled for her life as if she had multiple ones, pleading to be saved, had this frail demeanor.
Could this current, audaciously bold demeanor be her true self? Or was her previously weakened state her real nature?
Dietrich’s gaze lingered on Celiya’s red lips. The lips that had bitten and sucked on his own now appeared much healthier than before, which stirred a delayed wave of anger within him—despite the fact that he himself had alleviated her suffering by sharing his saliva.
Celiya looked at Dietrich quizzically. His face resembled the expression he wore when he first saw her, the woman who had attempted to assassinate the Emperor.
“Why do you stop speaking and look at me with such an expression?”
“……”
“What’s bothering you? If you have a complaint, say it. Keeping it all in will make you sick later on.”
To look at her innocent expression, it felt nauseatingly audacious now, more than ever.
But Celiya wouldn’t be able to laugh as freely as she did before. Because her escape from prison was far from a fortunate event for her.
It meant she had become easier prey, a more accessible target for others.
The men outside the imperial palace were not bearing the burden of Celiya’s sins.
Those who had everything in society and nothing to lose were the ones who spread rumors that Celiya had been slandered, losing nothing in the process.
The only ones who had actually lost something were the people who had been incited by them. These incited individuals were poor men who had never even seen Celiya’s face.
Rumored to be so beautiful, yet these men, too poor to afford the cover charge to see her perform, were in a position where they couldn’t even catch a distant glimpse of her.
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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