Bending to the Regent: He Insists I Bear His Child

I was reborn as the fake daughter of a marquis’s household. The day the real daughter returned, I became the family’s disgrace. To secure my survival, my adoptive mother forced me to conceive a child by another man: “If you can’t get pregnant, you’ll ‘die of illness’!” I smiled and nodded, then turned around and set my sights on the most dangerous man in the capital: the Regent, my family’s sworn enemy, whose power towered over the entire court. I meant to take what I needed and run, but he cornered me by the bed, his fingertips tracing my pregnant belly. “You dared to scheme against me, and now you think you can just walk away?” Later, I used modern economics to stir up the capital, while he swept the court’s demons and monsters out of my way. The Crown Prince knelt in the snow, begging me to return. Nestled in the Regent’s arms, I smiled. “Your Highness, affection that comes too late… is worth less than grass.” [Reading Guide] Both leads are inexperienced in love / Happy ending / Clear-headed heroine, maxed out / Hero falls first