A Maid with a Child

“Raise it.”

When her master returned from the battlefield, instead of war spoils, he threw her a baby.

“Ma, ma, ma, master...?”

Adelen, a maid who dreamed of marrying a handsome husband instead of a frog-faced one, and giving birth to a well-behaved child rather than a rebellious one, and living a sweet, happy life, suddenly found herself raising a spoil-of-war baby instead of her own.

As it turned out, the identity of this little baby was astonishing.

Thanks to that, she was about to rush headlong into childcare with her life on the line.

“Double the salary. And would a house, carriage, livestock, and marriage funds be enough?”

Is that enough?

“Then I’ll add a man to marry as well.”

Unable to resist her master’s half-threat, half-coercion, Adelen was dragged into it.

...But he never said the man he’d add would be the master himself.