I Faked a Pregnancy, but My Husband Returned - Chapter 32

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And Bart revealed a shocking truth.

“Lord Ekian, you are not the biological child of the ducal house.”

“…What are you talking about?”

At first, he didn’t believe it. However, since Bart wasn’t the type to suddenly say such absurd things, he couldn’t bring himself to tell the Duke and Duchess.

“I have always been mixing a drug that changes your hair color into your tea, young master.”

Every morning, Ekian drank tea that Bart prepared for him. Everyone in the ducal house drank Bart’s tea, which was made according to their individual constitutions.

“Try stopping that tea. Then you’ll understand.”

And a few days later. Ekian could see black hair growing from the tips of his hair.

To him, filled with despair, Bart handed over a medical journal. It was a journal where the former physician had recorded Isabella’s health.

In that medical journal, ten months were missing. It was the year Ekian was born.

“The year Lord Ekian was born, the Duke and Duchess traveled to Barte Island. Originally it was supposed to be a short 3-night, 4-day trip, but the Duchess only returned to the capital after two years had passed. Bringing with her young Lord Ekian, whom she claimed to have given birth to there. But only the records of those ten months during pregnancy are missing. She said they were lost.”

Bart handed over another medical journal. It was Ekian’s medical journal starting from age two.

“Hmm.”

Bart smiled coldly.

“Quite advanced development, isn’t it.”

Ekian gasped for breath.

Bart looked at the shocked and gasping Ekian with cold eyes and said.

“The madam discovered you, Lord Ekian, as an abandoned baby on Barte Island and decided to raise you as her own child. Since blonde hair isn’t common, she fed you expensive but harmless hair dye continuously.”

“I, I’ll ask. I’ll ask my parents directly myself…”

“Then it would be difficult for you to know the whole truth. Like now.”

Bart spoke politely but coldly.

“Ekian Meius, you are… not just a child that the Duke and Duchess picked up. You’re not an ordinary child, but of the Emperor’s bloodline.”

“…What?”

Seventeen-year-old Ekian was greatly shocked. Bart’s words continued.

“The imperial family blessed by the moon has a characteristic. When they shed blood under moonlight…”

Ekian unconsciously drew out a dagger as if entranced.

If it was a blessing the moon bestowed upon the imperial family, he knew about it too. He had just thought it had nothing to do with him until now.

He immediately cut his arm while bathed in moonlight from the window. Despite cutting quite deeply, the wound healed instantly.

“You knew about it.”

Ekian cut his arm once more. Twice, three times, four times – no matter how deeply he cut, the wounds healed in an instant.

Finally, when tears rather than blood began to fall, Bart slowly opened his mouth.

“Please leave the Meius estate.”

In the room with just the two of them, Bart slowly knelt down.

It was the day seventeen-year-old Ekian’s world collapsed.

“Young master Karl Meius is the legitimate heir. I don’t want the Meius house to be invaded by imperial blood like this.”

“I, I, I am…”

“I am the only servant in this estate who knows this fact. Because I had to make the hair dye. Please understand that I have no choice but to make this request out of loyalty to the Meius ducal house.”

The Ekian of that time was a seventeen-year-old young nobleman who had only grown up within the estate.

He was scared and afraid of the truth he had learned. However, he understood that the position of Meius heir was not his.

It was Karl’s position. The legitimate heir who carried the ducal bloodline. Moreover, despite his young age, Karl was excellent in many ways. There was no reason he couldn’t become the heir.

If he told the Duke and Duchess everything, they would obviously try to keep him. It was also obvious that Karl, who followed him devotedly, would refuse to accept the heir position.

So he left. He never thought from the beginning that he wanted to go to the Emperor, whom he disliked as a human being.

He simply hoped that after five years passed, he would be treated as missing and Karl would naturally take the heir position. The Duke and Duchess would be sad, but he thought that was right.

He desperately wanted to die, but since dying was difficult, he lived a completely different life.

After that, he saved his life because of Judith, and thanks to her, he learned the truth about Bart.

That Bart was someone who originally had no loyalty to the Meius Duke.

So the night Bart was captured, he went to the underground prison again.

“I’ll tell you the truth. Because that will torment you the most, cursed Prince.”

Bart smiled as if he had been waiting, looking at him who had grown into a young man with black hair.

“You, Ekian, are the child born after His Majesty the Emperor forcibly took the last shaman.”

“…The last shaman?”

“Yes. And after giving birth to you, the last shaman used her entire life to cast a curse.”

He had only heard rumors about the disappeared last shaman. But he had never imagined that she would be related to him.

“So that this child would directly bring down his father.”

Ekian swallowed dryly. It was the first story he heard about his birth mother. When he was seventeen, he was so shocked to learn he wasn’t a biological child that he ran away immediately, but he had actually been curious about who his birth mother was.

“This is the content of the curse the shaman cast, risking her entire life over the newborn you. His Majesty the Emperor immediately ordered to kill you, but the shaman used her last strength to leave the dying words ‘whoever kills this child will also be cursed.’ In the end, the attendant felt uneasy about directly killing the shaman’s child, so he threw you into the sea, and the Duke and Duchess found you after you drifted to Barte Island.”

But that birth mother was already dead, and had even cursed him.

“The Duke and madam know all of this. They’re just deliberately turning a blind eye and deaf ear because of their affection from raising you. However, just looking at the shrine of the last shaman where time has stopped, you can see how powerful the shaman’s magic is. You will eventually bring down the Meius Duke, who is your father figure.”

Bart giggled with laughter.

“In the end, you won’t be able to return.”

That was accurate. To ignore that fact and live, his family – that is, the Meius ducal house – was too precious to him.

Of course, that curse might have been directed at the Emperor, his biological father, but anyway, he had lived for 17 years thinking of the Meius Duke as his father. That thought remained unchanged even now.

If someone asked who his father was, he would answer without any hesitation that it was the Meius Duke. Even at this very moment.

“His Majesty the Emperor knows everything too. That the abandoned child was tracked down and entered the Meius ducal house.”

Bart said with a bright smile.

“And he’s pretending not to know. Expecting that you will eventually destroy the Meius ducal house that you grew up believing was your father’s.”

A moment of silence flowed. He knew the Emperor was a cunning human, but to think that he himself was one of the weapons being used. His existence became even more horrible.

“Then.”

Learning the truth made it seem even more impossible to return here. To this place where his beloved family and Judith were.

“Why exactly did you send me away five years ago? If you had no loyalty to the Meius ducal house, wouldn’t it have been better for you if I had stayed here playing the son’s role and inherited the ducal title?”

This was what he had been most curious about since learning of Bart’s crimes.

He had definitely sent Ekian away citing loyalty to the Meius ducal house as the reason. But now that this basic premise was wrong, he couldn’t understand what his real intention had been.

“That is…”

But what came out of Bart’s mouth next was something he had never expected at all.

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