Claimed by the Prince：the Forbidden Wet Nurse

Episode 1

The castle needs a wet nurse for a newborn prince who has refused every woman's milk for three days. The selection is brutal: candidates are ordered to strip for inspection, and those deemed too small or unfit are eliminated on the spot. Clara, a young widow, delivers cheese to the palace while her mother-in-law Martha warns her to cover herself and never meet the royal blue eyes.

Clara learns the crown prince, Gabriel, will personally choose the nurse—one woman in a thousand. Rumors swirl that the baby's mother is unknown. Clara is determined to win the position, or she has nowhere left to go.

Episode 2

In the rose garden, Clara's encounter with a stranger turns into something she never planned. When he learns she could be punished for trespassing, he offers her a name, everything she desires, and a life unlike anything she has known—but an urgent dispatch from the front pulls him away before dawn. He orders a search for the woman from that night.

Months later, Clara gives birth to a healthy boy. His eyes won't open, and she tells herself they must be green like hers. Then Lord Roderick arrives, demanding payment of her dead husband's debts and threatening to jail her and send her child to a poor house. Martha is offered a horrifying bargain to spare the boy.

Episode 3

Lord Roderick corners Clara to collect her debt, but Martha intervenes, telling Clara to take the child and run—find his father, go to the castle. Clara flees with her baby as Roderick's men pursue her, a reward on her head.

Meanwhile, Gabriel returns victorious from war, yet his father pressures him to marry and produce an heir. Gabriel admits he has been searching for the woman from the rose garden, but his men have found no trace of her. As Clara runs, she glimpses the child's eyes and sees something that stops her cold—they look exactly like Gabriel's.

Episode 4

Clara is caught disrupting the victory procession and arrested. Desperate, she leaves her baby and a golden ring at the castle steps, whispering that the ring will reveal who the child is—she cannot stay with him.

The ring is recognized as Gabriel's. The search for the woman from the rose garden finally has a lead. At the palace, the king demands an heir and mocks Gabriel's refusal to marry. Then Victor bursts in with startling news: the child brought to the castle is Gabriel's son. The royal blue eyes confirm what no one expected.

Episode 5

The golden ring proves the child was left at the castle's side gate—he is Gabriel's son, and the king's grandson. But the little prince refuses to feed from anyone, crying endlessly. Physicians explain he rejects every wet nurse, likely because he recognizes only his birth mother's scent and heartbeat.

The king issues a kingdom-wide search for the child's birth mother and recruits wet nurses, offering a thousand gold coins. Clara, meanwhile, is trapped: Martha has fallen into Lord Roderick's hands, accused of stealing a silver candlestick. Roderick offers Clara a twisted bargain—submit to him, and Martha lives.

Episode 6

Clara refuses to be intimidated. When she announces she will enter the castle for the wet nurse selection, Roderick mocks her—a lowborn widow daring to call herself fit for the crown prince's son. He lets her go, vowing to watch her fail and to claim her once she is thrown out.

Inside, more than a dozen women have already failed. The young prince's temper is legendary; he refuses every woman's milk. Clara hears his crying and feels an inexplicable ache. A servant scolds her for her disordered dress—she cannot appear before His Highness like this.

Episode 7

Gabriel's men report they found a woman's body in the moat, her face too disfigured to identify—but the homespun dress matched the description of the woman he seeks. He orders her a proper burial, believing the woman from the rose garden is truly dead.

At the castle, a mocking figure arrives to gloat, certain Clara will fail the selection, threatening that once she is thrown out, she will come back quietly. Clara tells him to get away, and when he grabs her, a voice commands him to stop.

Episode 8

Gabriel catches Clara's scent and feels an inexplicable familiarity—something that makes him unwilling to let her go. She insists the man from that night could not have been the crown prince.

The slander lands: she is a widow whose husband died two years ago, yet she bore a child nine months ago. The accusation lands strangely—nine months ago is exactly when Gabriel met the woman in the rose garden. He demands to know where Clara was that night. She says nothing. He orders her examined, refusing to gamble with his son's safety.

Episode 9

Gabriel presses Clara about that night nine months ago, but she stays silent—speaking would drag both her and Martha into scandal. The slander continues: she has no morals, she could infect the young prince. Gabriel orders her taken to the infirmary for examination.

Then word arrives: the little prince's breathing is weakening. If he does not feed soon, he may not survive the night. Clara sees her only chance and declares she can make him feed. Gabriel hesitates, then orders every candidate brought to the nursery to try, one by one.

Episode 10

In the nursery, Clara looks at the child—the same age as her own son, with unmistakable blue eyes. She wonders where her child is, whether he is safe. Then the baby smiles at her, the first time he has ever smiled.

A trained wet nurse demands her turn, but the little prince's breathing grows weaker, and he cries as if calling for Clara. She refuses to stand by. Gabriel finally orders her taken to him, and the room holds its breath as the starving prince is placed in her arms.