We Agreed to Raise a Child, But the Villain Won’t Stop Clinging to Me

A cold, strikingly beautiful ice-queen heroine and a sunny, devoted puppy-dog villain

Jiang Yu brings his daughter to a business partner’s engagement party. When the groom-to-be runs off, Jiang Yu shamelessly asks if he can take his place.

Three years later, she still turns him down. The only difference is that now she gives him a polite smile.

His daughter gets cake on her dress. “Auntie, you look so much like my mom.”

She smiles, like an uninvolved bystander. “Do I? What a coincidence.”

Back home, his daughter shows him the painting she made. “This is Daddy, this is Mommy, and this is me. Daddy, you’re way more handsome than that man in the photo.”

Jiang Yu’s eyes turn red. He tilts his head back and wonders: why did Pei Zhi choose him?

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She had a child after graduating from college, and by twenty-five, she had built a successful career. When the camera caught Jiang Yu’s profile at an economic summit, the clip caused a sensation online.

A single father. The identity of his child’s mother unknown.

A photo from years ago, taken when he accidentally wandered into someone else’s shot, resurfaced. In it, Jiang Yu is holding up a camera and smiling at her.

Back then, he wanted to marry her. He wanted her to stay.

She simply looked him straight in the eye. “I’ve never considered getting married.”

He thought she didn’t want to marry at all.

Until he received an invitation to her wedding with her fiancé.

Only then did he finally understand: she just didn’t want to marry him.

Standing before the floor-to-ceiling window, Jiang Yu grips his phone, not a trace of warmth on his face. “Does he know you have a child?”

Pei Zhi’s voice comes through the phone, icy cold. “I don’t have a child.”