The 36th Book by An Jin Ge Zhe

[Period Setting + Military Marriage + Both Pure + Faux Brother-in-Law Romance + Chaste, Rugged Man Turns into an Obsessive Madman + Misunderstanding Trope + Sweet Romance]

When Chuchu arrives at Xiao Lie’s door with a baby in her belly, he is a feared special forces brigade commander in the capital, infamous for his cold and chaste nature.

Seeing the woman shivering in front of him, he assumes she is the “widow” of a fallen comrade.

For the sake of his brother’s bloodline, he grits his teeth and takes her in. “Stay here and have the baby. The Xiao family will provide for you.”

At first, Xiao Lie buttons his collar to the very top and warns her with a cold expression, “I’m your elder brother. Know your place.”

Later...

Word spreads through the compound: Xiao Lie, the living demon, is wearing a hideous pink scarf and fighting for cherries for his wife at the supply and marketing cooperative!

Late at night, he kneels on one knee, pressing her cold little feet against his burning abs. His eyes redden as he coaxes, “Be good. Say ‘hubby’ one more time, and I’d give you my life.”

Then his vicious mother-in-law brings people to catch them in the act, points at Chuchu, and accuses her of carrying another man’s bastard. She even threatens to dig up the martyr’s grave to prove the child’s parentage.

Xiao Lie flips the table on the spot and pulls Chuchu into his arms, his smile dark and crazed.

“No need to dig. The bastard who knocked her up that night was me!”

Content warning: At first, the male lead thinks he’s raising another man’s child and gets jealous of himself every day. Later, he’ll have to grovel to win his wife back! The heroine seems like a little white rabbit, but she’s a black-hearted schemer who’s great at manipulating others to do her dirty work!

[Sweet, Scheming Black Lotus vs. Cold, Feared Demon of the Capital (A Master of Self-Deception)]