We're Arch-enemies, but We're Raising a Kid Together

Everyone knows that Xie Qingyue and Lu Jingbai get along worse than anyone else.

Xie Qingyue thinks Lu Jingbai has a privileged background and no troubles, and has no sense of boundaries.

In short: he's clueless about people's feelings.

Lu Jingbai thinks Xie Qingyue is poor but has a bad temper, is difficult to deal with, and puts on airs.

In a word: he's a hypocrite.

In short, they don't see eye to eye on anything and can't stand each other.

Then, during their senior year of college, an accident led to them sleeping together.

Afterward, they both pretended not to know each other and turned away whenever they met.

Now everyone knew for sure: Xie Qingyue and Lu Jingbai had stopped pretending they didn't hate each other!

After that, Xie Qingyue went abroad to study, while Lu Jingbai invested in a startup.

Four years later, Lu Jingbai had become a rising business mogul, while Xie Qingyue

Xie Qingyue brought home a curly-haired little boy.

Lu Jingbai's friend teased him: “I hear that kid has a head full of curls, just like you.”

Lu Jingbai laughed it off, completely unbothered. “That's not the same. My curls can't compare to a foreign girl's. After all, the moon is always rounder overseas.”

At the time, Xie Qingyue was at his wits' end over the little brat at home.

He wouldn't eat properly and couldn't even speak Chinese clearly.

At kindergarten, he stirred up trouble with all the other kids and made them call home eight hundred times a day!

He'd even learned to run away from home, hiding in a trash can and cosplaying as a little beggar!!

Seeing the kid turn into a little menace, Xie Qingyue finally couldn't take it anymore.

The first time:

Xie Qingyue stopped Lu Jingbai at the office. “Mr. Lu, I'd like to invite you to raise a kid with me.”

Lu Jingbai was silent for a long moment. “Be honest. How many years have you been secretly in love with me?”

The second time:

Xie Qingyue took a paternity test report and tossed it right in front of Lu Jingbai.

Lu Jingbai was silent again for a long moment. “What of mine did you secretly take for the test?”

The third time:

There was no third time. Lu Jingbai simply took the father and son home by force.

Xie Qingyue was reluctant. He only wanted Lu Jingbai to pay and help out; he didn't want Lu Jingbai himself.

Lu Jingbai scoffed. “I just want to save myself some effort. What else could I possibly have in mind?”

Later on:

Xie Qingyue decided the kid had been raised well enough, picked him up, and prepared to leave.

Lu Jingbai pulled a cold face and held the kid hostage to keep his husband: “Do you think I'm a donkey you're going to slaughter once the millstone is ground?”

Xie Qingyue glanced down. “...Don't flatter yourself on the donkey's behalf. How could a donkey ever compare to you?”

In the end, they didn't leave.

Lu Jingbai decided the two of them could keep raising the kid together a while longer.

“Xie Qingyue, have you always wanted to see me lower my head to you?”

Lu Jingbai held Xie Qingyue close. “Fine. Then listen.”

“Xie Qingyue, I love you.”

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Theme: Love makes the proud lower their heads and the timid find courage