Meridian's manga / #Childcare(16)

Pretty short read, so the plot doesn't have much to develop. A simple and straightforward CEO/secretary romance with a splash of cute kid moments.

Pretty typical accidental pregnancy storyline, most of the plot consists of the MC being unable to accept her feelings and trying to get through that. The antagonist setup was painfully obvious, our villainess was pretty much a throwaway doll for development with all the personality she had. It can definitely get frustrating at the beginning because the MC pretty much just goes through a bunch of events and reacts with 'oh no, but I can't because I'm so sure it'll turn out badly' every single time. I do like their relationship later on, though, so it wasn't bad in the end.

Honestly, the fact that the kid was the ML threw me off for a long time. I still don't feel that comfortable with it. Once they were both adults and had memories of their previous lives it got a lot better, and the background of the story was super interesting. I'm always a sucker for any sort of time paradox/escaping a preset fate trope. Also the butler Edmund dying had me ugly crying so you know he was an amazingly well-written side character.