【Series concluded】

【Paperback edition scheduled for 10/31 release!】

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"I am breaking off our engagement. The reason... you already know, don't you?"

Tiana cannot bear children.

She cried for three days and three nights when that fact was revealed during a health check-up just before her wedding.

And when her engagement was broken off, she cried for another three days and three nights.

In this country, under the 'Marriage Control Act,' citizens must marry a partner chosen by the state.

Furthermore, it is their duty to strive to have children with their spouse.

However, only nobles were permitted to marry fiancés chosen by their families.

Abandoned by her fiancé, Tiana was not assigned a new spouse because she could not bear children.

However...

Women unable to bear children, even if noble, are considered the lowest class in this country, and are burdened with the duty of labor.

She decided to live as a working woman and became a wet nurse for a certain ducal family.

She was tasked with caring for five-year-old twin boys. They were wild, foul-mouthed, and completely disobedient.

Nevertheless, Tiana, determined to make a living through this work, struggled with raising the children, recalling her own mother.

Before long, the Duke, who had no interest in children, began to frequent the nursery...

"I'm not here to see the children; I'm here to see you."

Perplexed Tiana, by the Duke who for some reason dotes on the wet nurse.

Please, stop interfering with my work!

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*Contains some discriminatory depictions, such as discrimination against infertile women.

Reader discretion is advised.

*Also posted on Kakuyomu.

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