"27"
Annelise and Leonia felt they were struck by lighting.
Annelise eyes were widen as she stared at her husband with lips parted.
"WHAAAATTTT?!!"
Everyone jumped from the scream.
"REALLY? REALLY?" Leonia shouted as she held her dad's chin and squished his chin as she examined him with a shock face.
"YOU'RE NOT LYING, RIGHT PHILEO" Annelise shouted as she looked at her husband with a shock expression.
Duke Phileo had a uncomfortableness expression present on his face since his daughter is squishing his chin. His eyebrows were furrowed.
'Did everything they ate all go to developing their vocal chords....?' Duke Phileo thought looking between his wife and daughter.
"Why? Were you both surprised to find me so old?" Duke Phileo said with a flower aura surrounding him.
'More like your looks were making you look like a person over 30!!!' Annelise screamed in her mind as she stared at her husband with shock still present on her face.
"I THOUGHT YOU WERE OVER 30!" Annelise and Leonia shouted as Leonia made hand movements going up and down.
Duke Phileo had a shadow loomed over his face as his lips were parted as he felt lighting strike him. While Marquis Pardus eyes were widen and sweat ran down his cheek.
"HOW COME YOU LIVE LIKE YO'VE LIVED FOR 3 LIFETIMES WHEN YOU'RE ONLY 27 YEARS OLD?!!" Annelise shouted as she grabbed her husband's cheeks.
"HOW IS THIS THE FACE OF A 27 YEAR OLD. MOM IS 23 AND SHE STILL HAS A FACE OF SOMEONE YOUNG OR MORE LIKE THE FACE OF A GODDESS WHO WOULDN'T AGE!!!" Leonia shouted as she also held her dad's cheeks and squished them and than look between her goddess mother face then at her dad's.
Marquis Pardus covered his mouth as his face was red trying to hold a laugh.
"JUST HOW MUCH HARDSHIP DID YOU HAVE TO SUFFER FOR SOMEONE'S FACE TO TURN OUT THIS WAY?!" Leonia shouted.
Everyone were shaking as they had a dreaded look.
'Please stop young miss....' Sir Gabel thought as his hands were clasped together and had a dreaded look with a forced tight smile.
'PHILEO, DON'T TELL ME YOU FORGOT HOW TO COUNT AFTER GETTING SO OLD, OR SOMETHING?!?!" Annelise shouted letting go of her husband's cheeks and she clasped her hands as she stared at her husband with a worry expression.
"DON'T WORRY DAD I WILL HELP YOU REMEMBER HOW TO COUNT!!!!" Leonia shouted
Duke Phileo was silent as Marquis Pardus was laughing hard.
"Oh dear....!" Marquis Pardus said laughing so hard that his face was red and tears were forming from laughing.
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~I Became the Male Lead's Adopted daughter/I Became the Male Lead's Wife!~
~Chapter 37~
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"Granny Cara! Look!" Leonia said showing a red bump on her forehead with teary eyes.
"What in the world?!" Cara shouted as she stared at Leonia with wide worry eyes.
"What is this bump?!" Cara asked as she looked at Leonia.
"Daddy hit me!" Leonia said with teary eyes.
"He didn't even hit mom! He favors mom to much!" Leonia exclaimed as Annelise stared at her daughter with a sheepish smile.
"You deserved worse." Duke Phileo said behind Leonia with his hand on hips as Leonia flinched a bit and had an annoyed expression.
Annelise frowned.
"Phileo!, are you just a regular dad? How can you hit your own daughter when you're such a strong person?!!" Annelise shouted as she stood in front of her husband.
(Annelise's dress)
Duke Phileo frowned and he notice Leonia who had a smug look.
Duke Phileo grew annoyed his eyebrow twitched.
"Well why can't she learn her place?" Duke Phileo said with furrowed eyebrows and an annoyed look on his face.
Leonia smug look disappeared as she went in front of her mother.
"I always do that." Leonia stated with raised arms.
"You with your words..." Duke Phileo said with a sigh.
Duke Phileo leaned down and picked up Leonia as Leonia looked at her mother.
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In the third floor living room
"Does it hurt?" Duke Phileo asked Leonia who was on her mother's lap and she was on her husband's thigh..
Leonia only let a "Mm" as she nodded her head.
Cara is seen bringing a tray of healing tools.
"It doesn't hurt me." Duke Phileo said as he let out a little laugh.
"This daddy, seriously...It hurt so much i thought my forehead would split open." Leonia said as she played with her mother's fingers while Duke Phileo put cream on Leonia's forehead using cotton.
Duke Phileo became silent as he glanced at his wife who stared at Leonia.
Duke Phileo then glanced at Leonia.
'Why did i hit this little thing when there's nowhere to hit?' Duke Phileo thought staring at Leonia who had a pouted look.
'There's no more pitiful person than i-' Duke Phileo's thoughts were cut off by Leonia who spoke up.
"Why's it me and mom's fault that daddy's face looks so old?" Leonia asked seriously with a serious face as Duke Phileo flinched.
Annelise chuckled as Duke Phileo stared at his wife and daughter with a blank face and parted lips.
"...I wonder when my daughter and wife will ever feel her father not to feel guilty?" Duke Phileo questioned as Leonia leaned against her mother's chest and smelled the cotton.
The smell from the cotton went in her nose.
'UGH!!!! THAT SMELLS!!!!' Annelise and Leonia thought with a face of disgust as they flinched.
Disgust can be seen on Annelise's face as scrunched her nose up.
Duke Phileo chuckled and had a grin while staring between his wife and daughter. Amusement in his eyes.
Connie flinched at his grin.
"Why're you laughing?!" Leonia yelled.
"Who said to joke around?" Duke Phileo questioned still with a grin.
Connie and Hannah eyes were widen as they sweated a bit.
"Good for you to act so childlike, Phileo!" Annelise yelled.
"Don't make it sound so evil." Duke Phileo said as he signaled Cara, Connie, and Hannah to leave which they did.
Duke Phileo soon laid down with his arm supporting his head as Annelise and Leonia stared at him.
Annelise smiled as she too laid down with Leonia also laying down.
Leonia had her head on her mother's chest since she doesn't was her dad to look at her chest. Leonia took her dad's arm and put it over her and her mother.
Duke Phileo and Annelise watched Leonia. Annelise had a soft smile while Duke Phileo blankly stared at Leonia.
"In any case, to think that daddy's 27..." Leonia said.
"My daughter really does have a tendency to want to be hit, huh." Duke Phileo said as he leaned his head against his hand.
'I won't allow you to hit Leonia!' Annelise thought with a glint in her eyes.
"I mean, I'm just saying since daddy's really handsome." Leonia said as she flinched and sweated.
Leonia looked at her mother with pleading eyes.
Annelise noticed as she looked at her husband.
"♡Phileo, I thought you were a good-looking, excellent, great man over 30!♡ If you have a face like that already, Then how much more handsome will you get when you get older, That's all~!♡" Annelise said with a big smile on her face as she looked at her husband.
"Mom's right!, I bet you beat those monsters with that face of yours, right? Since I'm like daddy, I wonder if I'll also become cool like you when I grow up. Also mom had a goddess face so I pretty sure I can be cool." Leonia said as she flipped over and had her hands on her cheeks while Annelise smiled.
Duke Phileo stared at his wife and daughter.
"Stop fooling around." Duke Phileo said as he lifted his wife's head and put a candy in her mouth.
Annelise stared at her husband as she chewed on the candy.
Duke Phileo then fed Leonia candy as she had her mouth open.
Leonia chewed on the candy as both her and her mother stared at Duke Phileo.
Soon a thought crossed Leonia.
"Daddy!" Leonia called.
"That scared me. What?" Duke Phileo said sarcastically.
Annelise rolled her eyes as she sigh as she listen to Leonia.
"What about the person who gave birth to me?" Leonia asked.
"What?" Duke Phileo questioned.
"Daddy's cousin! My birth mother. What age did she run away." Leonia said with her hands close to her mouth.
Duke Phileo eyes widen as both Annelise and him sat up.
Duke Phileo sweated as he had a dreaded look.
Annelise and Leonia looked at him waiting for his answer.
"...16." Duke Phileo answered with a blank look with sweat running down his cheek.
Regina ran away at 16
And that's already 10 years ago.
Leonia is currently 7 years old.
=pregnant at 18.
....
Duke Phileo, Annelise, and Leonia soon got the answer from calculating as they froze in place.
"Phileo! I thought you said that person was full of hopes and dreams?" Annelise exclaimed.
Duke Phileo looked away as he had a hand over his face as he was facing reality.
"...That's right." Duke Phileo said as he let out a long sigh.
"Then I believe she was full of childlike innocence." Leonia stated as Duke Phileo felt he was struck by lighting as he looked at his daughter with wide eyes and furrowed eyebrows.
"I've decided to start having childli-" Leonia was cut off by Duke Phileo.
"Don't." Duke Phileo said with a thick tone.
"Something like that isn't helpful in life. I'll die before seeing you get pregnant at 18." Duke Phileo said with a dreaded look.
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The next day
Leonia is seen reading a certain book that was returned to her.
'That definitely was shocking.' Leonia thought as she closed her book and sigh.
'To think my birth mother would get pregnant in her teens....' Leonia thought before she glanced at Annelise.
'Mom is a dancer who draws attention because of her goddess like looks. Mom danced at many places when she was 15. Yet she managed to not get pregnant....Mom is much smarter.' Leonia thought nodding her head as Annelise stared at her daughter in confusion.
(Annelise's dress)
"Miss, Young Miss, We should go to have lunch." Connie said.
Annelise smiled.
"Okay!" Annelise exclaimed as she got up and picked up Leonia.
Annelise, Leonia, Hannah, and Connie are seen walking towards the dinning room.
'Honestly, My biological father is the bigger problem since he's the one who coaxed a young woman. If I meet my father, I'll just have to rip off his useless hose.' Leonia thought.
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In the dinning room
Annelise and Leonia had a smile as they entered the dinning room.
Annelise and Leonia soon saw Duke Phileo.
"Phileo/Daddy!" Annelise and Leonia called out which got his attetion as he glanced at his wife and daughter.
Annelise put Leonia down as Leonia ran up to Duke Phileo.
Annelise walked up to him.
"Leo, I told you not to run." Duke Phileo said patting Leonia's head.
"Are you okay, Daddy~? You're not tired?" Leonia asked.
"I'm tired to death..." Duke Phileo replied.
"Who's making you tired like this?!" Leonia asked as Duke Phileo put her on the chair that was right to Annelise.
"Leo and mom will go and beat them up for you! Mom is quite strong!!" Leonia said.
Annelise sat down next to her husband as she had Leonia next to her in her right.
"Right mom!, We will beat them up?!" Leonia asked.
Annelise smiled softly.
"Yes!, HYA!!! We will beat them up!!" Annelise said as she punched the air.
Leonia nodded her head and also punched the air.
Annelise looked at her daughter with a big smile.
Duke Phileo had sat down back in his chair as he smiled at his wife and daughter with a soft look.
Food was set on the table.
Annelise is feeding Leonia before Duke Phileo remembered something.
"Ah, A new etiquette instructor will be coming." Duke Phileo informed his wife and daughter who looked at him as they chewed their food.
"...Phileo, I don't want a woman who's connected to you." Annelise stated with narrowed eyes and a displeasure look evidence on her face as she glanced at her husband as she wiped her daughter's mouth.
"Don't worry about that." Duke Phileo said as he put a hand over Annelise's left hand that was on the table.
"Her name is "Heral Bosgruni". She's the head of the Count family of Bosgruni." Duke Phileo explained.
"Mr, Ardea was a noble?" Leonia asked chewing her food.
"Not anymore." Duke Phileo said.
"He's not? Why?" Leonia asked.
"Since the 2 have separated." Duke Phileo replied and both Annelise and Leonia felt lighting strike them.
They both felt Dejavu.
Problem teacher round 2?!
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Chapter 37 finished!!!
Sorry for late posting!! It's because I am quite busy since exams start on Monday and I want to do well.
But also today I had a stomach ache and a pounding forehead.
Anyways it's 4:40 am I need sleep!!
Love you all!!!❤️💕🥰