Murmuring almost inaudibly, Annet’s gaze drifted sideways. Even if Simonen couldn’t precisely grasp her inner thoughts, he could read the regret that surfaced on her face. It resembled envy.
Envy for something she could never have, or something she had let go of.
Annet never spoke much, but what she conveyed to Simonen was clear.
If Annet was talking about a brother, it could only mean one person.
‘Was René Martinec involved after all?’
If Annet was pressured by René to come here, her actions made sense.
Until now, Simonen couldn’t understand her because her actions seemed unmotivated.
But René was the head of Operetta. If he had ambitions, using his kin was a plausible hypothesis.
‘Of course, this is just my speculation…’
It was necessary to verify this. As they whispered, the laughing voices beyond the wall had vanished. In the returning silence, Simonen, after much internal conflict, finally spoke.
“Lady Annet. I heard about what you said to Noah.”
“What was that?”
“That suppressing His Majesty’s madness was your goal.”
“Ah, yes, that.”
“I want to know what that means.”
Annet easily nodded to his difficult question.
“There’s no need to think too hard. I just want the moment I become useless.”
“The moment you become useless is…”
“When His Majesty’s madness completely subsides, then there’s no reason for me to be here.”
And then she could return.
“You saw it just now, there’s nowhere here where I can breathe.”
“If only there was a place where I could rest, even for a moment.” Muttering this, Annet, true to her words, looked utterly exhausted.
To Simonen, it all seemed absurd now, the extent he had been wary of her.
Annet now appeared to him as a doll, a marionette used for the ambitions of her kin, a stand-in for the dead in a place where no one was friendly to her.
Although Annet still wasn’t likable to him, various feelings towards her had already taken root in Simonen’s heart: sympathy for her, guilt for his own wrongdoings, and in some sense, even pity.
“Mabel told me about Lady Annet, brother. I didn’t know she’s the same age as me. Maybe that’s why we get along in conversations. I thought she was cold, but she’s surprisingly cheerful, you know?”
Simonen was a good brother, a kind person. At least to the extent that he couldn’t ignore the voice of his conscience.
Thus, after much deliberation, he hesitantly spoke.
“……There’s a place that was closed by imperial order three years ago. It hasn’t been opened since then, so you could spend some time there.”
He closed his eyes before he could even finish speaking, as if revealing a secret to Annet was a deviation from his principles.
Because of this, he missed the icy blue spark that frosted over Annet’s black eyes.
“A closed place… Thank you for the offer, but am I allowed to go there?”
“It’s a place no one seeks. Just once should be fine.”
“Is that so?”
A smile slowly lifted the corners of Annet’s lips.
“Thank you, Sir Lindell.”
Had Simonen opened his eyes at that moment, perhaps he could have foreseen the consequences of his decision.
But he dared not open them, nor could he realize he was being deceived by the woman before him.
Unaware of everything, Simonen heard Annet whisper with a smile.
“Now we have two secrets between us.”
“We’ve become quite close, haven’t we?”
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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