“Peanut cookies! The Grand Duchess ate peanut cookies!”
Yuri shouted urgently beside the collapsed Grand Duchess.
Bolan and Marshal also anxiously watched her unconscious form while massaging the Grand Duchess’s wrists.
“Oh my, she’s shaking. Goodness, her lips have turned blue!”
“Quickly call for a doctor! And inform His Grace the Duke!”
A maid brought medicine to neutralize the Grand Duchess’s allergy.
“We have pre-prescribed medication. If she takes this, she should regain consciousness…”
But as she tried to administer it, Esika approached with large strides and swatted the maid’s hand, causing the medicine to fall.
“Esika!”
Yuri’s eyes widened as she yelled at Esika.
Callian, who had just rushed over and witnessed her action, approached with a hardened brow.
He grabbed Esika’s wrist forcefully, as if snatching it.
“Esika, what are you doing right now!”
Beside him, Yuri reported to Callian with flashing eyes.
“The Grand Duchess has a peanut allergy, but Esika prepared peanut cookies.”
Callian’s grip on Esika’s wrist tightened.
“She even knocked away the medicine that was supposed to neutralize the allergy when they tried to give it to her.”
“What?”
“Esika is clearly trying to harm the Grand Duchess. How could she do this?!”
Callian’s sharp eyes were directed at Esika.
“Is that true?”
His gaze suggested he might strangle her if she answered affirmatively.
Esika looked at Callian without blinking an eye, even in this chaotic situation.
She spoke with eyes devoid of any emotion.
“If you give allergy medicine to someone who isn’t having an allergic reaction, it’s not good for their body.”
“What?”
“So of course I knocked the medicine away.”
Esika found Callian’s reaction merely amusing.
She was also sick of Riona’s ostentatious act.
They were a mother and son who should live alone on an uninhabited island for life, yet here they were, putting on such a ridiculous show together. It was irritating.
“Those cookies only smell like peanuts, they don’t contain any peanuts at all.”
“…What did you say?”
Callian’s eyebrows twitched.
“That’s a lie! They’re clearly peanut cookies. Esika! How dare you do this to the Grand Duchess…!”
Yuri accused Esika with tears welling up in her eyes. Esika strode over and picked up a cookie from the plate.
Then she held it out to Callian.
“Try it yourself. See if there’s any peanut powder mixed in.”
Callian’s eyebrows moved again.
His mother had just collapsed after eating these cookies. Even if he didn’t have a peanut allergy, he wouldn’t want to eat them.
Callian, who had been standing stiffly, questioned Esika.
“Are you saying my mother pretended to collapse?”
Whenever there was conflict with the Grand Duchess, Callian had never once taken Esika’s side.
He was a devoted son.
And Riona used that fact to torment Esika even more.
A bitter smile formed on Esika’s lips.
Callian was refusing to simply eat and confirm for himself.
As if he didn’t want to admit he might be wrong.
And that’s when it happened.
“I’ll eat it then.”
Esika started at the sight of the approaching man.
A tall man with a solid build, black hair, and intensely brilliant golden eyes.
His black uniform was adorned with medals for his service to the Empire.
“Fortunately, I also have a peanut allergy.”
His cool voice seeped into her ears. What exactly was… fortunate about that?
Having approached Esika, he raised his hand and gently wrapped it around her wrist.
Esika’s eyebrows twitched as she felt the heavy sensation on her skin.
Their gazes of different colors clashed in midair.
Resban took a small bite of the cookie she was holding.
Slowly, while staring at Esika.
As he chewed and swallowed the cookie, a long silence fell over the place.
“Your Highness, it could be dangerous.”
“I’ll bring the allergy medicine again.”
A maid moved quickly to prepare for any possible situation.
Callian was looking at Resban with a hardened face, and Esika was equally flustered inside.
“Add no peanut powder, but make it smell as close to peanuts as possible. I’ll make sure you suffer no disadvantages.”
She thought Hemos’s skills would be sufficient, and indeed, he had made peanut-free peanut cookies.
So if it was revealed that these cookies contained no peanuts, Riona’s fainting act would all be for naught.
However, the Crown Prince’s appearance was something she hadn’t anticipated.
“…Delicious.”
Resban lazily moved his red lips while looking at Esika.
Esika, who had been staring blankly at him, hurriedly averted her gaze and pulled her wrist out of his hand, which was still holding it.
After gazing at Esika for quite a while, Resban spoke to Callian.
“There are no peanut ingredients in the cookies. If you ask the imperial court physicians, you’ll find out that I have a peanut allergy.”
At those words, Callian looked at Esika with a bewildered expression.
“So your wife is… innocent, is what I’m saying.”
Esika’s gaze was cold, and though she belatedly realized she had made a mistake, the opportunity had passed.
Yuri could only furrow her brows at this unexpectedly concluded situation.
“The Grand Duchess has opened her eyes.”
Shortly after, the maids helped the Grand Duchess sit up.
Seeing the Grand Duchess open her eyes weakly, Callian hesitated for a moment, then approached her with a stiff face.
“Mother, are you alright?”
“…I felt dizzy for a moment…”
The Grand Duchess pressed her forehead.
Esika barely suppressed a laugh that was about to escape.
Riona, acting with all her might, must inwardly want to tear Esika apart and kill her.
After all, her plans to lie in bed for days and fan Callian’s hatred towards Esika had all been in vain.
“What happened, Mother?”
“I don’t know. Suddenly my head started spinning… It must be anemia.”
Bolan and Marshal spoke with worried expressions.
“It’s fortunate that it wasn’t a peanut allergy.”
“Indeed. It seems you just had a moment of dizziness. Worrying about His Grace the Duke every day like that… How could your body be well?”
Marshal excessively expressed concern while watching Callian’s reaction.
Callian supported Riona’s body, letting her lean on him as he spoke.
“I’ll take you to your bedroom. Shall I carry you on my back?”
“No, Your Grace, you’re so busy… Ah!”
As Riona’s body staggered, Callian wordlessly lifted her onto his back.
Then he turned and spoke to Resban.
“I apologize, but I will return after taking my mother to rest. Your Highness.”
Resban nodded with cool eyes, and Callian immediately began walking.
The maids followed Callian as he carried Riona.
Esika calmly watched this scene as if she were an audience member watching a play.
Then she slowly turned her gaze to look at Resban.
He spoke to Esika with somewhat languid eyes.
“Since the Duke seems to be busy, the Duchess will have to entertain me.”
Esika’s heart was beating a little faster.
**
With Callian’s support, Riona lay down on the bed with difficulty.
Looking at Callian’s hardened expression, Riona reached out and stroked his cheek.
“I’m sorry that your mother’s body is weak. His Highness the Crown Prince came, and… to take up time like this.”
Callian looked at Riona with slightly wavering eyes.
All the way here, Esika’s expressionless face had been on his mind.
That calm expression, as if she had anticipated something like this happening.
“Are you saying my mother pretended to collapse?”
And even Callian’s own shouting echoed confusingly in his ears.
“……”
There had been times before when Esika’s mistakes had harmed his mother’s health.
Mother had been bedridden for a week, and Esika had begged for forgiveness in front of mother’s room for the entire week.
He still vividly remembered Esika’s appearance, crying as if she had lost her mind, saying, ‘I didn’t know this would happen.’
What if that incident also… had a different inside story?
“Callian…?”
Riona called out to him softly.
His mother’s eyes, always full of warmth, now looked suspicious.
A coincidence? What were the chances of getting dizzy at such an inopportune moment?
Just when she took a bite of a cookie that smelled like peanuts.
Riona had a weak constitution, and Callian worried about her every time doctors came and went from the house.
But even that past now filled him with doubt in this moment.
“Don’t worry about this mother, hurry and go to His Highness the Crown Prince.”
Callian nodded and stood up.
As he was about to leave, he saw Yuri standing with her fists clenched and head bowed.
Callian stood in front of Yuri and instructed her.
“Take good care of Mother. And……”
The calm gaze of Esika looking at him was lodged in his heart like a spike.
Until just now, he had been furious at her for rejecting his kindness……
Now he felt like he was back to square one.
“……You are merely the head maid, and Esika is the Duchess.”
Yuri’s eyes wavered.
“No matter how close a friend you may be, refrain from calling her by name from now on.”
Yuri felt an enormous wall from Callian that she had never sensed before.
She clasped her own trembling hands.
Slightly bowing her head, she answered him.
“I will keep that in mind, Your Grace.”
When the male lead is punished by carrying the female lead’s child and having periods like a woman
“I’ve given birth to two children for you, yet you still think about him.
Was I nothing but his substitute to you from beginning to end?”
Synopsis:
Meng Huan, a scumbag who has dated countless girlfriends, transmigrates to a female-dominated country.
Day 1: Whether it’s female dominance or not doesn’t matter. The beauties here are passionate and amorous. Isn’t it easier to date them than in modern times?
Day 2: After a night, Meng Huan discovers the differences in the female-dominated world. Men here actually have chastity locks and menstrual cycles. This hinders his ability to perform, damn it!
Day 3: What’s wrong with sleeping around? I don’t want you to marry me. I’m meant to be a playboy. I don’t care about male virtues… What? You want to drown me in a pig cage? Marry, I’ll marry!
Day N: Meng Huan inexplicably vomits and receives the shocking news of his life… He’s pregnant.
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