Her Fertile Body Had Four, My One Child Became Heir — Episode 4

Nerissa and Seraphina married into the Atlantis royal family on the same day. At the wedding feast, the Sea Queen took both their hands and announced before the entire court — whoever gives birth to the heir first, the throne goes to her husband. No one had any doubt about the outcome: Seraphina was the Silver Scale tribe's greatest beauty, strong and healthy, famously fertile; Nerissa was a mixed blood, weak since childhood, even her tail duller than everyone else's. After the wedding, Nerissa went alone to the Sacred Oracle Spring late at night to pray for a child, when Seraphina suddenly appeared and insisted she was there to curse her. Shoving each other, they both fell into the spring. The Sea Sprite rose from the waters and granted them two wishes: multiple births, and quality childbearing. Seraphina snatched the first one without hesitation. Months later, Seraphina was confirmed pregnant with quadruplets — untouchable, on top of the world — and the Sea Queen ordered Nerissa to move in and wait on her. Nerissa poured tea, took every humiliation, until Seraphina went into labor and was rushed to the delivery room — four children born, one stillborn, three with congenital defects. And outside that delivery room, Nerissa's vision went black and she collapsed. The court physician took her pulse, and his face drained of color: she was pregnant too…