My Lord, I Am Your Baby's Mother

Synopsis

In the Duchy of Albion, a peasant girl named Ilone was sold as a child bride to a miller’s family. Her fiancé died of tuberculosis before they could marry, leaving her to rely solely on her elderly mother-in-law for support as they made a living by delivering vegetables to local estates. Alaric, the Duke of the Frontier and guardian of the duchy, had a distinguished military record, but due to persecution by his stepmother in childhood, he suffered from severe “gynephobia” and was unable to come near any woman. Worried that the royal bloodline might die out, the king secretly instructed his steward to drug the duke in an attempt to force him to marry a noblewoman of his choosing. By a twist of fate, Ilone, who had come to deliver vegetables late at night, unexpectedly consummated a union with Alaric—whose drug-induced state was heightened by the darkness—without either knowing the other’s identity or appearance. Several months later, Ilone gave birth to a baby boy. Sir Gray, the local sheriff, coveted Ilone’s beauty and sought to force her to become his mistress. To protect her child, Iloen sent the infant back to the estate where they had first met. To earn a living and search for her son, she used her abundant milk supply to secure a position as the young master’s sole wet nurse at the border duke’s estate—unaware that the child she was nursing was her own flesh and blood. Living in the mansion, she spent every moment with Duke Alaric, and their feelings for one another grew day by day. Yet, due to the gulf between their social statuses and a series of misunderstandings, they remained at a distance. After weathering a crisis of identity, court intrigues, and emotional trials, Ilone’s steadfastness and wisdom finally won the Duke over, and he discovered that she was the birth mother of his own child. With all misunderstandings resolved, the lovers were finally united.