“But why didn’t you defend her? You said you liked her?”
“What difference would it make if I, a lowly person, defended her? Stone is the heir to the Oswald family.”
The Duke of Oswald.
One of the five noble families that make up the Council of Elders.
With the Duke’s death, Stone automatically became a member of the Council. So Eiton, a small noble, couldn’t dare to mess with him.
But Christine could see right through Eiton.
“No, you probably wanted her to be more cornered. It would be easier to have her if she broke down and fell apart.”
“……!”
“Did I hit the nail on the head?”
Christine’s voice was low and grim.
Eiton instinctively felt fear.
“That, that thought… wasn’t entirely absent…”
“So you really spent a passionate night with her?”
Eiton shook his head.
“Actually… the madam never even gave me a glance.”
“Pitiful.”
“So now you’ll let me live…”
Christine shook her head.
“Didn’t I say? If there’s even a bit of lie, I won’t spare you.”
“But I told you everything truthfully! It’s real!”
“The graffiti on the wall?”
“……!”
At that moment, Eiton realized.
He never intended to spare him from the beginning.
“Did you forget what you just spat out of your mouth? That graffiti was a lie.”
“That, that’s…!”
As Eiton looked on with a face full of terror, the corners of Christine’s red lips lifted slightly.
“Of course, it’s not that there’s no way to live.”
“What is it?”
“Leave Greenhill at once and settle everything.”
“But our family has lived here for generations! Anything but that!”
“Then die here.”
He was extremely firm. There was no other choice to live.
Eiton looked miserable and nodded.
“I will leave.”
Clang!
Christine threw the rapier she was holding in front of him and turned away.
Tied to the chair, Eiton stretched his legs to pull the rapier. The sharp blade easily cut the rope that had bound him.
But Eiton, holding the legendary sword, soon fell into wicked temptation.
Christine was now vulnerably exposing her back. Moreover, unarmed.
No matter how brave a warrior, what could be done if ambushed unarmed?
If he died here, he would not be found until winter passed. Everything would be buried.
“Yaaah!”
He thrust the rapier with all his might into Christine’s back.
But soon he was aghast, his mouth agape.
“Gasp, wh, what…!”
His eyes filled with fear and trembled, then suddenly grew wide with horror.
Swoosh!
Christine’s enlarged shadow swiftly rushed towards him.
“Aaargh! Aaahh!”
A terrible scream echoed with the smell of blood.
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]Christine, leaving the monastery, was naked, wearing only a thin robe.
Her transparently white skin and fluttering silver hair in the moonlight seemed like a being from another dimension.
The pale white cheeks were scattered with red blood droplets, but it too was strangely beautiful.
Jimmer hurriedly ran and wrapped her in a long cape.
“Did you know that the Duke was an infirm patient?” Christine asked as she wrapped the cape around herself.
“Yes, well… It seems to be a secret in the Duke’s house.”
Christine’s eyes sharpened.
“Why didn’t you report it?”
Jimmer looked incredulous.
“Did you forget that you said the investigation into the Duchess was unnecessary? That she was a traitor……”
Remembering what he had said, Christine furrowed her brow.
Certainly! Here’s the translated passage:
“An investigation concerning Adel is unnecessary, but investigate the death of the previous Count Oswald. About Stone Oswald as well.”
“I am already investigating it.”
Christine paused and looked up as Zimmer smiled kindly.
“I thought you would be curious someday.”
A guy with an uncanny intuition.
“And pack a simple luggage to be left at Adel’s house.”
“Yes, Commander!”
Christine’s face soured at the sight of Zimmer’s spinning, cheerful smile.
A look as if he knew this would happen all along.
“You’re thinking something different.”
“I didn’t think anything!”
“An unpleasant guy, after all.”
Grumbling, he climbed into the carriage.
Zimmer quickly followed and asked.
“But are you really okay with this?”
“With what?”
“It’s mating season in winter, living in the same house with her. The Emperor seems to be considering marriage with Princess April, and if something disgraceful happens…”
As Christine scowled,
“Just that. Yes. I don’t care either way…”
Zimmer began vigorously wiping the window with his sleeve until the back of his neck felt less hot.
“It’s the Emperor’s order.”
“Yes?”
“There’s something to be found from her. A blank document signed by the Emperor.”
Zimmer looked slightly shocked.
“So you intentionally approached the Countess?”
“I told you. I don’t like traitors.”
Zimmer looked dumbfounded this time.
Not because you liked it, but because you approached her?
When meeting Adel, emotions would leap, with such a passionate look in your eyes?
[Star Icon][Star Icon][Star Icon]“Don’t come, Adel, stay there!”
“My goodness! What kind of beast could do this…”
The snowwhite snowfield was stained entirely with dark red blood… And in the middle of it, lying…
“Ahhh!”
Adel screamed and opened her eyes.
Looking around, the familiar sight of a bedroom lit by flickering candles met her eyes.
‘Phew… It was a dream…’
It seemed she had fallen asleep while tossing and turning.
An ongoing nightmare.
The same dream, always.
Adel swept her sweaty hair back and got out of bed.
Chatter…
She opened a wine bottle on the fireplace mantel and took a drink.
Christine was mistaken.
She was no longer the girl who lulled herself to sleep with sweetened milk.
On sleepless nights, she relied on the warmth of alcohol like this.
Feeling the highalcohol wine’s sharp sensation sweeping through her insides, she went to the bookshelf beside the fireplace.
After removing the books from the bottom shelf and feeling along the wall,
Click.
The back wall of the bookshelf popped out like a drawer.
Inside was a small box. Inside the box was a red scroll.
A document hidden in the deepest part of the vault by the late Count Oswald.
Something so important that Adel had stolen it when she left the Count’s house eight years ago.
But, absurdly, the document contained nothing. Only the signature of Duke Valencia at the bottom.
Duke Valencia’s signature was somewhat unexpected, as he was not on good terms with the elders, so naturally, he was assumed to be on bad terms with the Count.
And not long after, that Duke Valencia became the Emperor.
A blank document bearing the current Emperor’s signature…
What meaning could it possibly hold?
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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