My Ex Suddenly Became My Boss and Wants to Use Our Daughter to Get Ahead

[Reunion after a long separation + sweet yet angsty pursuit + both each other's only one]

After three years of living together, he left without a second thought. She figured she was nothing more than a cat he'd picked up while working in a lower-level post. They got along in bed, and found each other easy enough to look at outside of it.

She didn't know that he had heard her call another man's name in her sleep. By the time the pregnancy test showed two lines, he had vanished without a trace, leaving only the words “Peach blossoms flourish, their leaves lush and green” in the signature field.

She steeled herself to end the pregnancy, but just outside the operating room, she received another transfer of five million.

Three years later, he returned under a different name, bearing the title of general manager of a branch office. Impeccably dressed and dazzling, he had a wealthy young lady from the capital at his side, someone who looked seven or eight tenths like her.

He cornered her in the office, his gaze falling on the ring on her left ring finger. His voice was icy: “You're married?”

She lifted her face and smiled coldly. “What? You can bring a woman from the capital, but I'm not allowed to get married?”

He named her as his personal secretary. She said she wouldn't do it, so he transferred another five million.

She drove off, and he ordered his driver to ram her car, wrecking it. She trembled with rage. “Lu Lichuan, are you crazy?” The two-and-a-half-year-old girl at the daycare looked so much like him, but he had no idea he was already a father.

The wealthy young lady from the capital told her she was nothing but a stand-in. Every year, he prepared a birthday present inspired by the wishes she'd made as a child, and this year's gift was a wedding ring.

At last, he discovered that she was carrying his child.

He desperately searched for the name she called out in her dreams, only to reopen the wounds of her past.

He was afraid of water, yet plunged in to save their child.

When everything had finally settled, he knelt and begged her: “Zhenzhen, a father gets his status through his daughter.”