The end of the wait was tragic. Despite knowing that there was medicine in the milk, Taesuh drank it for the brief smile and the faint kiss on his forehead.
He suppressed his curiosity about the medicine. In the meantime, his mom died while he was sleeping. Taesuh spent half a day alone in front of the bathroom where his mom died.
Even thinking back later, Taesuh couldn’t understand his mom.
Having grown up always watching the eyes of the adults in the house, Taesuh never threw tantrums or acted out. He wondered why it was so difficult for his mom, who even hired help to raise him, to the point of giving him medicine.
But in Taesuh’s young mind, his birth mother wasn’t normal. With a fragile mind like glass thread, it must have been hard for her to support even one body. However, the child by her side couldn’t have been light. But pretending not to know, there was a tiny chance that the child might look back at her husband, so she couldn’t do that.
“Maybe Mom wanted me to die back then.”
Taesuh, who had long been lost in old thoughts, whispered quietly while still holding Jaeein tightly.
Taesuh was considering whether his mom had tried to kill him and then commit suicide.
Because his birth mother didn’t accurately calculate the lethal dose of the sleeping pills she fed him, he woke up after thirty hours. In fact, that suspicion was reasonable.
Since his birth mother realized that the child wouldn’t even be a means to receive her husband’s attention, she probably considered him useless.
So, after that, Taesuh couldn’t take even a single common painkiller without a doctor’s prescription.
He thought the remaining trauma was at that level. However, it seems that he had hidden and pretended to be fine for a long time, and it was more deeply rooted than he thought.
Jaeein, who first said that she liked him, didn’t prompt Taesuh for an answer. No, she didn’t expect an answer at all. It was a statement made by her because she wanted to say it. In the end, Taesuh couldn’t return an answer to her.
“I guess I have to carry you every day.”
It was such a feeble statement that he had to swallow hard to force out the words. Holding the sleeping Jaeein, he tightened his grip on her.
Even though he had thought of parting ways, she said she liked him.
The unexpressed anxiety quickly expanded with Jaeein’s confession. It turned out that I also had aspects of obsession that my birth mother had shown. Taesuh tried to forget the deepening headache while feeling Jaeein’s warmth.
On the topic of being unable to say “I like you” due to trauma. Despite that, anxious about not losing Jaeein’s feelings toward him.
On this innocent day, shivering in the cold, it feels like a dream of the night when he waited for his mom in front of the bathroom door. Taesuh, to stay awake, again placed his lips on Jaeein’s neck.
“Mm…”
Despite Jaeein’s gesture pushing him away in his half-asleep state, he did not yield, embracing her white skin that had become spotted due to biting. In the stained areas, he once again overlaid his traces.
Pretending to be a gentleman, pretending to care, was I ultimately like my mother? Us parting ways, that won’t happen.
How did I learn about warmth after spending days just being cold? She will hide her claws so that she doesn’t scare her away. My ugly appearance will never be revealed.
Taesuh stared at the deepening obsession, lips parted. The delicate flesh touched by the tongue was sweet, but his insides were bitter.
Don’t leave me. I will become someone useful to you.
Taesuh, wanting to remain Yoon Jaeein’s last resort, forcibly suppressed the rising desire of obsession.
Even so, it was a night where he faced his twisted self again. How long could he hide the fact that he was falling apart? But to not lose, he had to hide.
“Ms. Taesuh…?”
“Yeah.”
“I’m sleepy…”
“Sleep more.”
“I can’t sleep like this…”
It will be bright in a little while. Although winter nights are said to be long, for him, it was short. It was an insufficient night to express the feelings I couldn’t convey with words.
“What is this! What is this nonsense!”
After a considerable time of stalling, Gwansoon got up and went to a nearby clinic after getting an IV. It was only after she barely regained her senses that her destination was Namgwang Building.
There was a purpose to look around the long-unattended building, but there was a bigger purpose.
Gwansoon thought she was the one who needed to visit her son’s hospital periodically to give him a good scolding. She believed it was her job to whip the employees—dental hygienists, nurses, desk workers—to collect the money. Although it was enjoyable to stand over the employees and interfere with every little thing, she needed to check if there were any petty behaviors among them, whether they were worth the money, and if they were gossiping among themselves with a scrutinizing eye.
The Villainous Demon Lord Laid an Egg for Her (Female-Dominated)
Several months after transmigrating into a book, Yu Wu found herself facing the demon lord Li You, who could no longer conceal his dragon horns. With one hand on her aching waist and the other gripping a sharp sword, she stared at him.
The demon lord’s eyes were red with fury:
“This is all your doing! Today, I won’t rest until I kill you!”
Yu Wu rubbed her temples. Putting aside the taboo against bloodshed during pregnancy, wasn’t it this very man who willingly walked into her trap that day?!
Warnings:
- Male pregnancy.
- Height ratios are set to mirror typical male-female height proportions.
- Characters include a foot-loving demon lord and an eldest daughter from an immortal family’s concubine lineage.
