My Deadbeat Husband Is Back, Clinging to Me With a Kid

Shen Shuangxu was born with a long, thin birthmark on his belly. Red and vivid, it lay across his frail infant body and gave his family quite a fright.

A fortune-teller declared it a ghost seal, left behind by a karmic connection from a past life. It would bring Shen Shuangxu misfortune all his life, but removing it would cause him to die instantly.

He gave Shen Shuangxu a jade pendant, instructing him to wear it at all times until he turned eighteen. He offered no advice about what to do afterward, only saying that everything would be left to fate.

Shen Shuangxu grew up safely and went to college at eighteen, though his health was poor. He suffered from one minor illness after another and was always going to the hospital.

The birthmark grew along with him, becoming more and more vivid.

To comfort him, his mother always said the birthmark looked just like the scar left by her C-section. Perhaps it was a bond heaven had bestowed on mother and son.

Shen Shuangxu thought so too, but for some reason, as he grew older, he became more and more afraid of it. He could barely bring himself to look at it while bathing.

Then one day, his fear reached its peak.

That evening, after class, he was walking alone through the hills behind the school. Everything seemed just as it always was, but he felt as if he had somehow taken hold of something. Though it was a sweltering summer day, his palm was icy cold.

After that, he couldn't sleep well at night. Sensual dreams dragged him into a sea of desire, and he always felt someone touching him from head to toe, missing not a single spot.

He also kept dreaming that someone was calling him “Mother Consort.”

Feeling baffled, Shen Shuangxu began posting online for help, but he couldn't find any answers.

Then one day, he discovered large red marks on his shoulder blades.

At last, Shen Shuangxu was certain that something had latched onto him.

Later, with the help of a Taoist master, Shen Shuangxu learned what the ghost seal was for. He also learned that two ghosts had attached themselves to him: one was his child from a previous life, while the evil ghost that harassed him every night was probably just some lust-crazed wandering spirit.

He had thought the voice calling him Mother Consort in his dreams belonged to the child from his previous life.

But before long, Shen Shuangxu discovered how wrong he was.

The wandering spirit was also his “child.”

Unfortunately, by the time he learned the truth, it was too late. The evil ghost had completely ensnared him, imprisoning him in a cage of countless waves of yin energy.

His limbs were bound by the yin energy, leaving him unable to move. Tears in his eyes, Shen Shuangxu drifted in and out of consciousness.

The evil ghost spoke with malicious delight. “Mother Consort, do you know? Our child came from right here.”

“I envy him so much. Why was he the one who got to crawl out of your belly and share your blood?”

All that followed were countless possessive kisses.

Shen Shuangxu felt the birthmark on his belly grow so hot it was about to burn him.

He was both terrified and horrified. He had never imagined he could have been so wild in his previous life, daring to embark on such a relationship.

He wanted to resist this absurd affair, but with the evil ghost clinging to him, he was helpless.

All he could do was sink deeper into torment.

At last, amid their desperate entanglement, Shen Shuangxu heard the evil ghost sigh beside his ear. “Mother Consort, I won't let you go this time.”

But by then, he no longer had the strength to utter a word.

He therefore never saw the teasing look in the evil ghost's eyes.

Present day: aloof, sickly beauty uke VS domineering, deranged seme

Past life: pitiful, tearful consort uke VS scheming, fallen prince seme

Reader's Guide:

1. A delicious past-and-present-life romance! The leads have only ever been with each other in both lives, and both are virgins.

2. The leads are not blood relatives.

3. The child really was born to the uke. He was conceived in a past life after the uke took a fertility pill, and he's a little ghost. Please don't read if that's not your thing.

Here's another upcoming story: a sweet cat-and-dog romance! The cat is aloof but devilish, and in human form has white hair and heterochromia. All the favorite tropes!

Aloof-looking but actually devilish cat uke VS steady, fatherly German Shepherd seme

Xiao Qi was a two-month-old white kitten. He was frail, and he couldn't hear in his left ear, so his mother abandoned him.

But he didn't know he'd been abandoned. He thought he'd lost his mother.

While searching for her, Xiao Qi rummaged through trash cans, slept in cardboard boxes, and even had to avoid getting too close to humans.

He could never manage to hunt down any food, so he had no choice but to curl up hungry in the most remote corner of the urban village.

Xiao Qi searched and searched for a long time, but he couldn't find his mother.

By the end, he was covered in grime from head to toe, a filthy little kitten.

Then one day, Xiao Qi lay battered and bruised in a corner. Just as he was about to pass out, a German Shepherd found him and brought him back to his den.

From then on, Xiao Qi had an older brother, and he also learned that his mother had abandoned him.

His brother looked fierce and didn't talk much, but he was very good to Xiao Qi. Every day, he curled around him and groomed him, even tearing food into little strips and putting them straight into Xiao Qi's mouth.

Xiao Qi loved his big brother most of all.

When he got a little older, he would always pester his brother at bedtime. “Big brother, can you tell me the story of how you found me again?”

At first, his brother patiently retold the story again and again. But eventually he realized Xiao Qi was only doing it to stall bedtime.

His brother stared at the round, wide-open eyes in his arms, utterly devoid of sleepiness, and threatened him. “Go to sleep. If you don't, I'll bite your ears off.”

Xiao Qi wasn't scared at all. “Big brother, you wouldn't dare bite my ears.”

“Come on, tell me the story~ Otherwise, I can't fall asleep.”

His brother fell silent. His brother gave in.

He'd spoiled Xiao Qi, so now he had to put up with him.

*

Qiling University is a school for monsters, providing them with compulsory education and striving to eliminate all the illiterate monsters in the monster realm.

Recently, two new students arrived. One of them was exceptionally beautiful, with white hair and heterochromia, and a cool, well-behaved face.

He looked like a good monster.

This new student's background was tragic. He'd been a stray until he could take human form, and he was frail too, so many monsters went out of their way to look after Xia Qi when they heard his story.

But after Xia Qi had been at the school for a while, everyone watched as the pretty little cat, backed by his big brother, went rampaging across campus every day, trampling a vicious wolf with his left paw and grabbing a cobra with his right.

He even managed, with his tiny body, to drive out the tiger, king of beasts, and claim the title of school bully.

Only then did all the monsters at school realize that the poor little kitten of their imagination was actually a little devil!

Reader's Guide:

1. They can transform into humans! The uke has white hair and heterochromia in human form. He looks aloof and obedient, but is actually evil: a mischievous little devil who gets away with everything because his big brother is there to protect him.

2. The uke is deaf in his left ear, and it won't get better.

3. The uke is a little white cat, and the seme is a black German Shepherd. Black and white are a perfect match, with a size difference and a skin-tone contrast.

Theme: Love life and never forget your original aspirations.