Ten pregnancy test kits were laid out in a row. Twenty vivid red lines were glaring at her.
Not a single test kit had less than two lines.
She had been living in a daze, completely forgetting her menstrual cycle.
She had bought the test kits from a pharmacy first thing in the morning when Do Ha went to work, just in case, because of the nausea she felt last night.
What… what on earth happened? Just overnight.
The second child, who wouldn’t come no matter how much she tried when Seo Ha was alive, was now coming.
“Ha… What am I supposed to do? In this corner of the house. If this repeats the past…”
A deep sigh came out naturally. The situation, where she couldn’t be happy or sad, was desperate.
What should she do about this?
She didn’t want to leave even a piece of attachment to this house now. At this point.
“Seo Ha, what should Mom do? It’s the sibling you wished for so much.”
Was it possibly a gift from Seo Ha? A gift sent to give hope to her life.
Ah… what should she do now?
She felt like she would go crazy with her uncontrollable emotions.
Yet, in the midst of all that, a part of her was excited. Emotions were welling up in her driedup heart.
Was it a blessing?
But when she thought of what happened to Seo Ha, it was sad to think that she was carrying another child of this household’s bloodline.
Hyun Seo gently touched her stillflat stomach. It felt like something warm was rising from within.
“Baby, I’m sorry. I can’t be entirely happy.”
But it was her child. So, she had to make up her mind to accept this child as a precious gift.
“But don’t worry. Mom will definitely protect you.”
Knock knock There was a sound of someone knocking on the door.
“Young mistress, how should we prepare dinner?”
The lady from Seo San’s family gently opened the door and asked. Just thinking about food was enough to make her feel nauseous due to morning sickness.
“Auntie, I’m not feeling well today, just prepare as you see fit.”
Hyun Seo answered without even looking at the door.
“Yes, I will.”
She really didn’t feel well. She hadn’t even had a sip of water since morning, let alone dinner.
The sound of Young Suk yelling from downstairs, saying she didn’t prepare dinner and was just lying down, reached the bedroom upstairs.
‘Before I married into this family, we used to dine out every other day…’
Since she started eating Hyun Seo’s food after she married into the family, it was rare to even have a meal out, even when they went out.
“I am not a part of this family. I receive less attention than the workers.”
Even the servants didn’t realize that she hadn’t had a sip of water today. It had always been like this, but today a cold wind seemed to blow in her heart.
She was overwhelmed with regret and anger only after she lost all the beings who loved her.
She regretted the way she had lived.
“Why did I endure like a fool?”
She thought they would understand her someday if she endured. She didn’t know such a result would come.
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Hyun Seo was blankly staring out of the window in the dark room.
It was almost bedtime, and she had skipped dinner. Just like the dark room, her mind was also completely dark.
Thud
“What are you doing? Are you already sleeping?”
Her husband, who had just entered the room, asked.
Seeing that he, who usually comes home late, has returned from work, it seemed quite some time had passed.
It was her first facetoface with her husband since she took the pregnancy test.
She was only confused about how to face her husband in this situation, with these feelings. She couldn’t tell him that the second child he wanted had come, just as he wished.
Why did this happen? He was the one who took up all of my life.
I really loved him. I loved him more than my own life.
“Hyun Seo.”
Her husband came to her leisurely, standing by the window.
A soft voice came from behind her, who was only looking outside the window without any response.
“Are you, by any chance, angry with me?”
“No, it’s not like that.”
Do Ha’s arms, which had been quiet, gently wrapped around her. In the midst of Hyun Seo’s surprise, she felt his breath close by.
“Then why does it feel like you’re getting farther away?”
“……”
Hyun Seo couldn’t deny his words.
“You seem……”
Do Ha bent his head and buried his face in her neck, murmuring softly.
“……to need me.”
Hyun Seo blinked her big eyes.
“My…… body?”
“No…… It doesn’t necessarily have to be explained that way……”
However, Hyun Seo didn’t want to believe his words.
In his life, a wife didn’t seem to be a desperate existence, but strangely, they were close only at night.
So, there was a time when Hyun Seo thought she was quite appealing to her husband as a woman.
She had even hoped that his feelings might be love.
However, looking at him, who left her alone at the most crucial moment, she realized how foolish that illusion was.
“That’s what you need my body for.”
Hyun Seo turned around, shaking off his hand.
The husband she faced was quiet for a while. She thinks it must have been strange for him to see her push him away so decisively for the first time.
She was always a woman who gave both her heart and body without reservation. He must have never experienced such a rejection before.
“No, it’s not that. But……”
Soon, Hyun Seo flinched. Her husband’s hand was glued to her shoulder.
She felt the grip from her husband’s large hand that covered her shoulder. As always, his warm body temperature was there, too.
She knew her husband desperately wanted her. But she couldn’t do this in the early stages of pregnancy, especially since it was a baby that she had managed to conceive again after so much difficulty.
“Don’t touch me. I simply don’t want to.”
For the first time, Hyun Seo raised her voice in front of her husband. Then, with some effort, she pulled his hand away.
“I’m very tired today.”
A flicker of confusion crossed her husband’s eyes. It was Hyun Seo, who had never said she didn’t want to at any moment.
A heavy silence soon descended upon the room. Her husband’s eyes fluttered, seemingly confused.
After a while, he nodded slowly, as if forcing himself to accept it.
“Yeah… I’m sorry…”
After that, Do Ha quietly turned away.
As he left the room, her eyes began to burn. But Hyun Seo held her breath, not wanting him to see.
From morning, the voice of her motherinlaw, Young Suk, was heard loudly from downstairs.
It seemed that her fatherinlaw had gone to work early today. When he was home, she was as quiet as a dead mouse, but as soon as he went to work, she would start bossing the household around, like a fox in a tigerless den.
In the past, she could handle that behavior without any issue, but now, just hearing her voice was draining and exhausting.
How could she, who wasn’t even a general who had fought in a war, guarantee that she could overcome such people?
“Even when your husband is leaving for work, you’re still lying down. Have you caught some deadly disease?”
Young Suk was shouting loudly, demanding that Hyun Seo, who hadn’t come down yet, be called quickly.
Hyun Seo forced her weary body to rise and descended downstairs.
Yes. After all, I shouldn’t just lie down; I need to eat something for our baby.
She thought she had to move for the sake of the child in her womb.
With such a mindset, she barely moved her body and came downstairs, but her feet wouldn’t move towards the kitchen anymore. The smell of food from the kitchen was nauseating, and she couldn’t bear to be there.
She was about to hastily return to the second floor. Just then, the sound of the front door swinging open echoed, and Hyun Seo turned around.
My Arch-enemy Sealed My Memory and Said That He is My Husband
This is an incredibly captivating story that you absolutely shouldn’t miss! I’ll give a brief introduction here, and below you’ll find a detailed synopsis of the plot.
The female lead is a fierce and powerful demon king. The male lead is a once-in-a-millennium celestial lord, admired by the entire cultivation world.
They are equally matched, legendary rivals who have battled for centuries.
In the final duel, the female lead is gravely injured. The male lead saves her, seals her memories, and hides her true identity. He tells her that he is her fiancé. His entire life has been flawless—except for the one thing he never expected, never controlled, and never wanted to control: falling for his greatest enemy. She is his inner demon, his obsession.
When the female lead regains her memories, she is furious at his deception.
She makes his life a living hell.
And somehow, the male lead—possibly a total masochist—doesn’t mind at all. In fact, he’s happy she’s paying attention to him.
Yep, we’re back to my favorite trope: male lead suffering. If you love this kind of story, jump into the pit with me now!!!
Intro
Dong Xia lost her memory.
Her handsome and extremely powerful fiancé Li Qing comforted her: “It’s okay if you can’t remember. I’ll always be with you.”
Everyone thought Dong Xia’s ancestors must have burned incense to get such a perfect fiancé. He was the number one person in the immortal realm, yet he remained chaste and only loved her.
…
The day before marrying her fiancé, Dong Xia finally remembered everything.
She wasn’t suffering from memory loss at all.
Her arch-enemy had made her fake her death, destroyed her cultivation, replaced her memories, and pretended to be her deeply in love fiancé.
No wonder he said, “It’s okay if you can’t remember”!
Dong Xia laughed coldly as she pulled out her long knife: Li Qing, prepare to die 🙂
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Li Qing, as the supreme being of the immortal realm, was the people’s shining beacon.
The only unknown stain in his life was his affection for Dong Xia, the ruler of the demon realm.
In the final battle of the war between immortals and demons, the sky collapsed and the earth shattered. The ruler of the demon realm was finally slain under the sword of the supreme being of the immortal realm, and everyone in the immortal realm applauded.
The cultivation world lost a ruler of the demon realm.
And in the back mountain of Li Qing’s cave dwelling, he secretly hid away a fiancée.
Notes:
1. The female lead is white on the outside, black on the inside, and the queen of flattery; the male lead repeatedly tests the edge of darkness, a VIP guest at the crematorium.
2. Fantasy cultivation world setting.
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