I Had a One-Night Stand with My Archrival, Then Bought Expired Contraceptives

[The male lead has been plotting for ages + later driven mad and resorts to possessive coercion + the heroine falls in love after getting pregnant + she leaves with the baby + they reconcile + sweet and angsty]

Pei Si, the unruly, self-willed heir to one of the capital's most powerful families.

Shen Wenchu, a gentle, well-behaved young woman from a family of scholars, who always follows the rules.

The two seem to have nothing in common, yet they're bitter rivals who clash whenever they meet.

Until one unexpected night, they sleep together, and Shen Wenchu takes a contraceptive pill right in front of him.

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To outsiders, Pei Si is carefree, cold, and unruly. He's also indifferent when it comes to love, and his friends often tease him for being an ascetic who insists on making life difficult for himself.

But no one knows that he loves Shen Wenchu like a madman.

Even knowing she loves someone else, he still uses every means at his disposal to marry her.

After they register their marriage, he gets a vasectomy.

He only pretends to let her go when she gets pregnant. He will never let her leave.

So how did she end up six weeks pregnant just one month into their marriage?

He willingly becomes the “man raising another man's child,” but a year later, after giving birth, she leaves without looking back.

No matter how desperately he begs, she wants nothing to do with him. She doesn't even want the child.

How cruel.

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Shen Wenchu thought she understood Pei Si, until she saw the basement after they married and discovered what he was really like.

His possessiveness and need for control are terrifyingly intense. He's a complete madman.

And their marriage was a trap from the very beginning.

His mental state frightens her into fleeing abroad.

Years later, on her very first day back home, she's sent straight to that man's bed.

He kneels and begs her.

“Wife, our baby needs you.”

“I need you too.”