I Secretly Married and Had a Baby with My Ice-Cold Boss

Jiang You is a top designer of comfort products, but she's an Alpha with a substandard pheromone rating.

When the business marriage her family arranged for her falls through, the other party leaves her with this parting shot: “Marrying an Alpha who's useless when it comes to pheromones is no different from a lifetime of celibacy. Forget it.”

Jiang You is thinking how nice it is to finally have some peace and quiet when the company's legendary CEO summons her to the office.

Wen Shaonian, her direct superior and an industry-renowned, ice-cold decision-maker, slides a document across the desk.

“My mother is threatening to kill herself if I don't get married. I hear you were just dumped. Let's get married. It's a win-win.”

Jiang You: “...?”

Wait, what is the woman who tears her proposals to shreds at every all-hands meeting talking about?

On their wedding night, Wen Shaonian wears a silk dressing gown and pushes the “Postmarital Mutual Support Agreement” toward her. Her tone is like she's assigning quarterly OKRs.

“I value efficiency. We need to maintain our marital status, and physical needs should also be included in our partnership.”

Jiang You nods obediently. “N-no problem.”

She's a designer who spends every day studying human sensitivity and has personally tested hundreds of products. How could this possibly stump her?

She immediately designs countless new products for her boss and wife herself.

A month later, at a family banquet, Wen Shaonian's mother takes Jiang You's hand and sighs. “Shaonian has always been so cold. You must have had a hard time.”

Jiang You stammers, “S-she's not really that cold.”

She thinks of how this “ice queen CEO” stayed in her studio last night, insisting on testing the new products herself and giving “user experience” feedback on the spot. The tips of her ears turn red.

Not only is she not cold, she's actually very hot.

Later, Jiang You unexpectedly undergoes a second awakening, and her pheromones surge to the highest level.

What's more, they only react to her wife.

The young Alpha, having just discovered the pleasures of intimacy, becomes completely attached to her wife.

From then on, the always-composed ice queen CEO starts frequently revising their “mutual support schedule.”

From seven times a week, to three times a week, and finally to once a week.

One morning, Wen Shaonian holds her aching back and crosses out a clause. “This mutual support agreement is void. I'm pregnant.”

Jiang You is overjoyed and leans in to kiss her.

But Wen Shaonian kicks her away. “Have some self-control. From today on, we're abstaining and cultivating our inner selves.”

Boohoo. Her wife has already stopped doting on her, and she's only just gotten pregnant.

Here's my upcoming novel, “Hey! Your Wife's Pregnant, Aren't You Going to Do Something?”

Chu Jianxing is a star forensic pathologist at the municipal bureau. Recently, she's developed a problem: after pulling three all-nighters in a row, she starts hearing things.

A calico cat perches on her desk and yells at her:

“Hey! Your wife's pregnant. Aren't you going to do something?!”

Chu Jianxing: “...I'm single.”

On her way home from work, the calico drags her all the way to an abandoned well, where she rescues a long-haired tabby with a slightly rounded belly.

Chu Jianxing takes the cat home, names her “Xiaohua,” and looks after her carefully.

A few months later, Xiaohua gives birth to three kittens, and Chu Jianxing's home turns into a cat daycare.

The sofa gets shredded, the curtains become fringe, and in the middle of the night, the three kittens climb on top of one another and trample her face.

Even more absurdly, ever since this group of “abnormal residents” moved in, one long-unsolved case after another at the municipal bureau is cracked.

Every cat in the city becomes her “informant.”

Chu Jianxing looks at the row of cats sitting outside her window and falls into deep thought:

Am I a forensic pathologist or a cat whisperer?

Then one day, Chu Jianxing has a dream.

In the dream, she pins a woman with fluffy cat ears to the headboard and hears her crying in a purring voice. When she wakes, her ears are burning and her heart pounds like a drum.

Later, Xiaohua and the three kittens mysteriously disappear. Chu Jianxing searches for three days without finding so much as a single cat hair.

Her mind in turmoil, she decides to move.

Thousands of miles away, in the territory of the cat spirits, the cat clan's princess rushes excitedly into the main hall.

“Father, Mother! I've found my fated one! She rescued me, so I gave myself to her... and even had her kittens!”

The Cat King and Queen are overjoyed and immediately abdicate in her favor. At her coronation, cats come from every direction to pay their respects.

Once the newly crowned queen has finished dealing with state affairs, she leads her whole family back to the human world in a grand procession to find her wife.

But her wife has vanished, house and all.

The queen's amber eyes burn with fury, and even the tip of her tail trembles.

“How dare she abandon me after seducing me? Search every inch of the land and find that heartless woman!”

One stormy night, three drenched human-shaped children crash through the doors of the municipal bureau.

Two little ones run up to Chu Jianxing, cling to her legs, and cry, “Mommy!”

Chu Jianxing nearly blacks out. Reluctantly, she gets a paternity test, then nearly blacks out again, left utterly bewildered.

Good heavens, when did she have three kids? And who is their mother?

That night, a sleek tabby climbs through her window and stares at her with amber, slit-pupiled eyes.

Chu Jianxing cries out excitedly, “Xiaohua!”

The next second, she's pummeled by a flurry of cat punches and runs around with her head covered.

Xiaohua: “Meow meow meow!” You heartless woman! I'm going to scratch you to death!

Theme: Face life with courage, hard work, and enthusiasm, and cast off all negativity.