In the dim moonlight of the early dawn night.
Adeline quietly opened her eyes. She carefully lit a candle on the nightstand and got out of bed.
She left the bedroom with quiet steps, careful not to wake the sleeping Duke.
Passing through the hallway, Adeline descended to the office and immediately opened a desk drawer.
Inside lay the unopened letter handed to her by the innkeeper.
In the lower left corner of the letter was the familiar handwriting, .
Adeline sat at the office desk and began to carefully remove the wax seal.
She started reading the letters one by one in the candlelight.
[To Del.Del, why did you suddenly run away? Do you know how shocked I was to hear of your disappearance?
I have safely kept the jewels and metals found at the location you mentioned.] [You told me to wait, but not hearing from you is unbearable. You wouldn’t know how worried I am every night, unable to sleep.] [I can’t take it anymore. I will come to Horn.
I will see you on the last day of the month that marks the end of summer. If you don’t reply, I’ll take it as your consent.
Your Hail.]
‘The last day of the month that marks the end of summer…’
Adeline was horrified upon reading the last letter.
‘Wait… that’s today!?’
Adeline quickly put the letters back into their envelopes and stored them deep in the drawer before leaving.
‘Should I go and look for him as soon as it’s daylight…’
She returned to the bedroom and lay back down in bed. Looking at the Duke sleeping peacefully beside her, Adeline was filled with thoughts.
What should she do?
‘Hailo Lebrunse.’
Hailo was the eldest son of the Count of Lebrunse and a fellow student at the academy.
In the Soltarius Empire, central nobility, including royals, were required to attend the first academy unless there were special circumstances.
However, Adeline chose the second academy in a provincial area to avoid encountering the Crown Prince.
Hailo was a friend she made there.
The Lebrunse family owned numerous mines in their territory, known for producing gems of the highest quality recognized in Soltarius.
Despite being from a wealthy count’s family, Hailo, frail since childhood, attended the second academy closer to the Lebrunse lands.
Adeline, feeling sorry for the weak and small boy, often looked after Hailo like a sister.
“Adel, I’m scared. Can you hold my hand?”
“Del, let’s go together.”
Adeline and Hailo shared many memories from their academy days.
Even then, Adeline had to sell her valuable jewelry to survive.
Hailo, from the gem-expert Lebrunse family, knew the true value of the jewelry better than anyone.
Young Hailo was fearful and timid, but he was fiercely stubborn about gems.
“Are you scamming the nobility?”
Hailo always followed her, ensuring she received fair prices for her jewelry.
To Adeline, he was a gem-like friend who paved the way for her financial independence.
Hailo, once smaller than Adeline, had grown taller than her, robustly so, as if he had never been frail.
Long involved in her jewel selling, Hailo became an essential part of her secret financial operations.
In fact, Adeline could escape easily, partly thanks to Hailo.
He was the only one who knew she was hiding in Horn under the name Del.
‘Hail… why are you coming?’
That he was coming today and she couldn’t send a letter to stop him made her resent Hailo greatly.
If Adeline wasn’t at the inn, he would search Horn thoroughly.
‘That’s just like Hail. Yeah.’
She couldn’t let Hailo find out she was living with the Duke.
Her mind was filled with unease.
Unable to sleep, Adeline got out of bed.
She decided to go to the inn early to send Hailo back.
[Mel. I forgot about an appointment with a friend today. I’ll be home soon, so wait quietly at home. Don’t come looking for me this time!]Adeline wrote a note for the Duke, who would be looking for her, and headed into town.
Adeline was unaware.
The Duke had not been asleep when she got up at dawn to go to the office, nor when she left the note and went to town.
‘What was in that letter?’
It was clear that Adeline had read the letter and left the house.
The Duke had been bothered all day by the letter the innkeeper handed to Adeline. Adeline had not read the letter in front of the awake Duke.
Seeing Adeline leave the house through the window, he headed to the office.
The Duke decided to start by opening the desk drawer.
Frustratingly, as soon as he opened the first drawer, a letter caught his eye.
An envelope marked ‘Your Hail’.
The Duke’s heart started pounding.
Reading the content of the letter, the Duke was even more shocked.
‘You told me to wait, but not hearing from you is unbearable.’
‘Every night, I can’t sleep, worried about you.’
‘I will come to Horn.’
The Duke read the letter quickly, his mind in turmoil.
The letter from this Hailo guy was far too affectionate, as if to a lover.
‘Surely, she isn’t actually his lover…?’
The Duke had been on guard even seeing Duke Severus.
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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