I Ran Away With Obsessive Male Lead's Child

Episode 1
Prologue

Empire Year 648.

“Pregnant… I can’t believe it.”

She couldn’t fathom the situation. Joy surged, but simultaneously, anxiety enveloped her entire being.

Their relationship had evolved; they now shared sleep, meals, and conversations, becoming somewhat more like a married couple. Her heart wavered with mixed emotions.

“I wonder what expression he would have if he found out.”

The unexpected news shook her goals to the core. She had never thought there would be a child, considering she entered marriage without love and never harbored any desire for it.

Leticia gently caressed her belly, offering a faint smile. “An unexpected joy, indeed.”

She knew she had to inform him. Even if he didn’t want it, the child was his.

However, she needed to keep her lips sealed before revealing the pregnancy to Arden.

It was because she overheard what her personal physician said to Arden.

“You need to eat well. Get enough rest… If there’s something you crave, make sure to have it.”

Arden expressed skepticism upon hearing the physician’s words, not knowing the reason.

And the discovered truth.

“It seems you’ve been keeping one secret well. Taking contraceptives to avoid having a child, that’s what the prescription from your mentor, Verracan, is for.”

“….”

“Why the surprised expression? Is there a problem?”

“Is there absolutely no room for a possibility?”

“A possibility? It’s the prescription from your mentor Verracan; there might not be any reason to doubt it.”

The revelation that he had secretly been taking contraceptives without others’ knowledge. Leticia, clinging to hope, tried to deny the reality, hoping it wasn’t true. Despite pleading with Arden, asking what would happen if they had a child, the outcome was grim.

“I don’t want a child. It’s impossible anyway since I’ve been taking contraceptives, so don’t harbor unnecessary hopes.”

“…Impossible?”

“With the pills I’ve been taking, having my child is an impossible feat.”

Leticia bit her lip tightly. Then what was the existence in her belly?

She had lived in the palace, without forming any emotional bonds with others. There was no government. Only once, that day, the child was conceived from the night they spent together.

“Again, I find myself repeating the same thing.”

In her previous life, they hadn’t even consummated their marriage on the first night. However, this time, they shared a bed. So, she thought it would be different. After coming back to life, she vowed not to repeat the same miserable life but found herself on a path of repeating it.

In the end, everything unfolded the same way.

“It was all just my delusion.”

A queen filled with illusions, a queen who couldn’t fulfill her duties. However, nothing had changed from the past.

His statement that he didn’t want a child was akin to saying they hadn’t considered the possibility of having a child between them. How could a child not be conceived between two people in love?

Continuing the lineage was also her duty. As the queen, it was one of the things she should naturally do. Even if she didn’t want it, it was something desired by the people of Breevent and everyone in the castle.

Above all, a child was the fruit of love. A being to be happy about, a being capable of giving and receiving love.

For her, the child conceived from their relationship meant something different. It was a turning point in her changed life, and it was hope.

However, Arden didn’t seem to share the same perspective. To him, who had only seen her like that, the current situation was even more incomprehensible. Although it was his child, Arden was convinced that he would deny the child in her womb. He had stated that he couldn’t have a child, and the reason was his contraception.

“He doesn’t love me.” It felt like an unchanging, immutable law.

“Is the child important? Not to me.”

“No, no. I was just saying something. You don’t have to worry about it.”

“Is there something wrong?”

“Tell me. Please divorce me.”

“…That discussion is over.”

She tilted her head and smiled broadly.

“I don’t want to live like this anymore. So, please send me away.”

The moment she revealed that she was pregnant with his child, it seemed like this child might not be safe.

That was something she wanted to prevent.

And on that day, Leticia suddenly disappeared from the palace.