Erina, seated at her dressing table, wiggled her fingers on her lap, enjoying the feeling of the comb gently passing through her hair.
She couldn’t help but laugh at the sight of Reni in the mirror, who was flustered while tending to her hair.
“Do you want to go?”
“Pardon?”
“I was asking if you want to go to that woman.”
“My lady, what do you mean…”
“Why, she’ll soon become the real power in this mansion, monopolizing the Count’s love, won’t she?”
“My lady…”
The faint glimmer of sympathy in Reni’s eyes was truly pathetic.
Only a day had passed since dozens of servants witnessed the disgusting appearance of Feiron and Rose, along with the change in the once obedient lady.
For those whose job it was to quickly grasp the situations of those they served, yesterday’s events must have been like turning a mountain upside down.
In a monogamous society, there were no people who openly boasted about their affair and lived in the mansion like those two fools.
The reason they were able to continue their love without criticism in the original work was due to an incredibly perfect timing that was almost miraculous.
In the original work, before Rose acquired the mana stone mine that would justify their affair, their relationship was never revealed to others.
As if someone knew and planned it, every situation covered up their ugliness with perfect timing.
The family mansion was like a walled fortress, and unless all the servants working there agreed to speak, it was rare for internal affairs to leak outside.
Even in the original work, Rose’s sudden move into the mansion wasn’t talked about by others for the same reason.
All the servants had been knowingly or unknowingly dismissive of the main wife who couldn’t even get a glance from the head of the family, despite being sensitive and sharp.
Then the master brought Rose, who was kind and gentle like sunshine, to such a mansion, saying she was the person he loved.
They all acted as if it was natural, widely spreading the wickedness of Erina Eolss and hiding the faults of Rose Asilla.
“Go on.”
“My lady.”
“You should hurry, or you won’t have a place there.”
“Ah, no. I won’t go.”
“Why?”
When Reni stopped brushing and hesitated at Erina’s question, Erina took Reni’s hand.
“I see that person ordered you to keep watching me until the end.”
As Erina smiled with her eyes in the mirror, her cold golden eyes shone chillingly.
Reni, looking at Erina, took a sharp breath.
“That’s, that’s not it…!”
“You don’t need to feel guilty, I already knew.”
“My lady!”
“So, will you leave now?”
Reni found Erina’s gaze terrifyingly cold as she looked up while combing her hair with the brush she had taken.
In the end, Reni fled from her spot.
Such half-hearted sympathy was unnecessary.
The moment she faced them yesterday, when they were spewing nonsense at her, Erina vowed.
She would take everything and destroy it all.
Just as they had pushed Erina into the mud and never spared her a glance, she would do the same to them.
Any trivial connection to those associated with him was a luxury.
Erina, who had stopped brushing her hair, stared into the mirror for a moment before getting up to hurry with her preparations.
While they were staying in this mansion, not knowing what to do with their happiness, she had to complete her preparations without anyone knowing.
Erina, who had driven away Reni, her only companion, came out of the room alone, carrying her handbag and parasol.
The knight who had been watching under the pretext of guarding in front of the door was nowhere to be seen.
It seems he couldn’t wait even a day before sending the knight to his downy lover.
Erina, dressed in a light navy blue dress with a matching fluffy hat, stepped out of the unusually quiet mansion to go out.
The mansion entrance, which had been noisy when she brought Revil and when she brought that woman, was quiet.
It felt as if the past events were just a dream, and she closed her eyes and moved her steps slowly.
Fearing that the blade aimed at them might become dull, or that even the slightest sympathy might arise, she steeled her heart.
The sunny weather, no different from yesterday, greeted Erina.
Seeing the carriage waiting beyond the mansion gate at the end of the straight path, she hurried her steps.
At that moment, a conversation reached Erina’s ears from not too far away.
“An orphan, is that why? Tsk, tsk.”
“Mother, don’t be like that. The child will improve quickly if taught. Right?”
Following the clear voice that made her heart flutter every time she heard it, came a voice as soft as a feather.
It was immediately clear that the two people talking were Mirea and Rose.
The sound seemed to be coming from the garden.
The garden was not far from the mansion, so even slightly loud conversations could be clearly heard.
That’s why it was impossible not to know that Mirea was badmouthing her daughter-in-law every time she held gatherings at the Eolss mansion.
Conversations from the garden could be heard while walking through the corridor if the windows placed between the glass walls of the corridor were open.
She couldn’t help but hear her mother-in-law’s words disparaging her daughter-in-law, even though she didn’t want to, as she always invited her acquaintances to the garden.
Erina hated this garden to the point of disgust.
‘Crash−!’
“Oh my!”
“Goodness, does this lowly orphan even know how much this cup costs!”
Erina had tried to hurry away from the garden where this unfunny farce was unfolding.
It would clearly be easier to ignore and move on, but once again, the image of a child with a bowed head, soaking wet and trembling, came to mind.
That child, whom even the original work couldn’t remember, felt no different from herself, and it kept bothering her.
The memory of her childhood, when she had hoped someone would reach out and save her from this place, came back so vividly it made her dizzy.
Even though she had just decided not to care about anything related to the Eolss Count family anymore, Erina couldn’t move her stopped feet.
She closed her eyes and bit her lip hard, trying to ignore it, but it was too difficult to pass by.
“Hah……”
The desire to no longer live with regrets led Erina’s footsteps towards the garden.
Like Mirea, who proudly displayed her luxury without knowing how others perceived her, the garden was unharmonious in appearance from the entrance, too beautiful to be called beautiful.
It was a garden filled only with flowers of trendy or hard-to-obtain varieties, so the colors and sizes were all mismatched.
After passing through the ridiculously short flower path, she arrived at the place where the voices had come from.
The scene was exactly as expected.
Revil sitting with a pale blue face, trembling; the mother-in-law Mirea, full of anger; and Rose, looking troubled but seemingly with no intention of resolving the situation.
Well, of course. People don’t change.
“Revil.”
Surprised by the sudden voice, Mirea and Rose turned their heads to look at Erina.
Revil, who had been trembling, carefully raised his head as well.
“Countess.”
Erina didn’t even feel like laughing at the sight of Rose, who quickly put on a pitiful face and stood up.
It was amazing how predictable it all was.
“Erina!”
Seeing Mirea calling out in her usual irritated voice, Erina didn’t respond politely as she used to.
“Revil, get up.”
“You don’t even answer when your mother-in-law calls you?”
Erina’s gaze, which had been directed at Revil, slowly moved towards Mirea.
Mirea, receiving Erina’s icy stare, was so shocked that she screamed even louder.
“I’ve been hearing rumors that you’ve gone mad since yesterday, and it seems they’re true!”
“Excuse me, Grand Madam Eolss.”
“Wh-what?”
“Is there really a daughter-in-law who would respect a mother-in-law who lovingly calls her son’s mistress, who’s entered the mansion, her new daughter?”
Though her mouth was smiling brightly, her eyes remained cold, making Mirea hesitate.
“Oh my, oh my! This is why my son also!”
“Revil, get up now. I told you to prepare for going out, and I’ve been looking for you for a while.”
Erina’s blatant disregard finally made Mirea’s eyes roll back.
“Erina!”
Erina, regardless of whether Mirea’s eyes were rolling back or not, stared only at Revil as she spoke.
Revil’s head, which had been bowed again, trembling in fear at Mirea’s loud voice, carefully lifted.
The crimson eyes filled with moisture met the golden eyes shimmering in the sunlight.
Revil’s eyes wavered.
Erina couldn’t tell what the small, clear child’s eyes felt towards her.
But feeling a broken piece from an unfathomable emotion, Erina’s heart ached.
It was just an excuse she had provided for the child to leave this place, but strangely, it felt as if she had reached out to herself from her past life, to the young Erina.
“How dare you manipulate in front of your mother-in-law!?”
Erina, who had been quietly looking at Revil, didn’t see Mirea quickly approaching and roughly grabbing her shoulder to turn her around.
Erina ended up offering her cheek to Mirea’s hand, adorned with large-stoned rings, unable to react in time.
‘Slap−!’
As the fluffy hat that had been neatly placed on her head fell to the floor, Erina’s head turned sharply.
The force of the slap was so strong that it went beyond numbness to a stinging pain.
For a moment, her head buzzed.
Although she had lived a married life accustomed to criticism and disregard to the point of crushing her self-esteem, Erina had never been hit before.
Even her uncle and his wife, who wanted to fully possess the Medelia family, had never laid a hand on Erina.
Erina, who felt like she might lose her reason in anger, instead felt her head cooling down.
Erina carefully held her stinging cheek that had been slapped by Mirea and called out to her in a low voice.
“Mother.”
“You only come to your senses when you’re disciplined. I should have done this earlier.”
Mirea’s words, spoken while snorting repeatedly, shocked those around them.
The Count, the head of the Count’s family, had openly brought in a mistress, and now the mother-in-law, sitting as an elder, had even raised her hand.
If any other noble had been present, if the unfaithful servants of the Count’s family had been here, this rumor would have been more than enough to turn the social world upside down.
“I never thought the day would come when I would say this.”
Erina slammed the long parasol she was holding onto the floor with a thud.
As if representing her upset state, the tip of the parasol broke with a cracking sound.
“Don’t do things you’ll regret.”
Because I want to kill everything, plans and all.
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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