Years After My Archenemy Faked His Death While Carrying My Child

❤️Pinned post: Please check out my bestie’s new novel, “A Socially Anxious Treasure Appraiser Livestreams, Then Runs Off Pregnant,” book ID 9383003♥️ Blurb follows this novel’s blurb. This novel➡️ Childhood friends become sworn enemies, sworn enemies become spouses, and years after his spouse fakes his death and disappears, he sends me a child. When Wei Jingchun was young, he had a sworn enemy. People called them the Twin Jewels of the Mystic Realm, the brightest talents of their generation. A human and a demon met as children and became classmates in their youth. They went from constantly clashing to growing to understand and respect each other, only to turn against each other overnight... Their tangled love and hatred kept their fellow prodigies supplied with gossip. Then Su Xueyan vanished after the Battle of the Ten Thousand Demons Palace. People said he was long dead. Wei Jingchun searched for a hundred years, never believing it. Until a young man who might be his sworn enemy reborn appeared, bringing a new possibility. The boy looked exactly like his sworn enemy, and his every gesture brought back memories of the past. But his personality was completely different, and his knack for picking fights with Wei Jingchun was even stronger than before. The young Master Su gave Wei Jingchun countless nicknames. In just a few days, he was bold enough to climb onto his head and declare, “You big monster, you’re old now. Young Master Su will beat you sooner or later!” ...To find his sworn enemy, Wei Jingchun had no choice but to put up with him. You little brat. I’ll deal with you one of these days! As it turned out, the boy really was his sworn enemy reborn. Wei Jingchun felt short of breath and tight in the chest, and started getting ready to ascend. But on that day, he met the boy’s father. Su Xueyan stood alone on a high tower, facing the wind. He gazed down at Wei Jingchun, his expression as serene as ever. * After inexplicably coming back from the dead, Su Xueyan stared at the child he’d had with his sworn enemy, and only after a long moment realized that he’d given birth to him. Hadn’t Wei Xiaotao said he was infertile? The great beauty shut his eyes, unwilling to face reality. The child was rambunctious and clingy, and could burst into tears at the drop of a hat. A quick inquiry revealed that the child’s other father was even more hopeless: after a hundred years, he still hadn’t ascended. Su Xueyan decided to give him a push and sent the child out to find him. He never expected to meet his sworn enemy again. On the first day, the other man, still gravely wounded, gripped his hand and demanded to know where he’d gone after faking his death all those years ago. On the second day, the other man crouched by his bedside with a long list, asking which other man was their son’s father. On the third day, the other man tried to look calm and said he could reluctantly become the child’s other father. Su Xueyan could take no more and told him the truth. But the phoenix hadn’t ascended even after all these years, and was just as foolish as ever. He sprang up angrily, eyes red, then weakly whispered an accusation: Su Xueyan had slandered his virtue just to protect that other man! Su Xueyan: “...” * The Battle of the Ten Thousand Demons Palace a hundred years ago left Wei Jingchun with countless unanswered questions and the news of his sworn enemy’s death. A century later, the heavenly tribulation is upon him. He has only moments to choose between ascension and death. Then a young man who looks exactly like his sworn enemy appears, stirring the skies and seas of the Heavenly Sea Realm. Many of the mysteries from a hundred years ago rise to the surface once more. That night, peach blossoms scattered in the wind. Wei Jingchun rested his sword across his knees and opened his eyes. Beneath the tree, the inkstone pool brimmed with moonlight, white as snow. He rose with a sweep of his sleeve. Clouded in mystery, my heart is in turmoil. How can I not unravel each and every riddle? 💕⬇️⬇️⬇️❤️ #Childhood classmates become lovers as they vie for dominion over the world, love and hate intertwined #Separated for years, with a child together #I still haven’t moved on, while you’ve already had a child #Sworn enemy fakes his death and runs off pregnant; widowed phoenix is blessed with a child years later 🤡 #Who in this world could be worthy of you? Just who is that damned other man? 💢💢💢 ❗️⬇️⬇️⬇️❗️ I’ve been the target of baseless rumors before, so after thinking it over for a long time, I feel I need to add a few things. Feel free to give reasonable content warnings, but whatever you warn people about, please include the full context from the original Jinjiang text and a screenshot showing your subscription rate, okay? 🥺 Baseless rumors are really upsetting. Also, if you really do have a problem with something I write, please don’t drag my bestie into it too 🥲 Let’s keep things separate. I love reading comments, but I’m easily affected, so I generally don’t read them while the novel is updating. *bows* ⛽️🎆🎆🎆👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Please check out a story by my adorable bestie Xiaodingdang, the cutest in the world: “A Socially Anxious Treasure Appraiser Livestreams, Then Runs Off Pregnant” by Qing Jian Yi Ling [Socially anxious, cool beauty treasure appraiser × Sharp-tongued, soft-hearted heir to a Hong Kong tycoon] Comments on individual chapters are open!! Jian Rong, a Republic-era treasure appraisal master born with ghost eyes, is reborn as a livestreaming influencer who flaunts his wealth and gets dragged by the entire internet. The platform’s agent sneers, “You offended the Lu family, and you think you can cancel your contract? Either pay up or livestream until you die!” He’s only just arrived and already slept with someone. Now he has to livestream too? The socially anxious Jian Rong closes his eyes. “...” He... he’s allergic to living people! But to keep the antique shop his predecessor protected from being taken away, Jian Rong stares at the livestream camera for an entire day and night, then decides to take the plunge. Livestreaming treasure appraisals: get it wrong and pay a thousand times the price! No face reveal, no small talk, no haggling. Three items a day, no more. His arrogant, audacious introduction sends a flood of haters into the appraisal livestream: [Oh, stopped showing off your wealth? Remembered that the Lu family kicked you out?] [No face reveal? With that plastered-on face of yours, looking at you would count as a workplace injury.] [No haggling? What kind of appraisal master acts like that?] At the height of the livestream, the pale curve of a chin flashes across the screen, and a trembling, cool voice asks: “Get it wrong and pay a thousand times... W-would you like to join the livestream?” On a livestream call, Jian Rong glances at the Tang Dynasty sancai figurine of a lady and immediately recognizes its strong earthy smell. He sums it up in two words: “Call the police.” That night, the topic explodes on the trending list: #LivestreamTreasureAppraiserHelpsCrackMajorTomb-RobbingCase# #KindCitizenMrJianGets500000Yuan# The curious public rummages through their homes all night: Teacher Jian, take a look at my chamber pot! Meanwhile, rumors that Jian Rong is ugly, that his livestream is scripted, and that he uses ghost appraisers spread everywhere. A major Hong Kong tycoon returns to his hometown and hosts an antiques appreciation gathering at a private garden, inviting experts and collectors to meet and exchange ideas. Jian Rong, a young treasure-appraisal streamer, stands out on the guest list. Plenty of people are looking forward to watching him make a fool of himself. Forced to attend, Jian Rong hides beneath a hat and mask, standing in a corner like a mushroom and hoping to get home as soon as possible. Then the Jian family’s ancestral Thousand Buddha jade carving appears. With no other choice, Jian Rong sheds his disguise and steps forward in a blue-green bamboo-patterned robe. He wins the appraisal contest and takes back the Jian family’s Thousand Buddha jade carving. Everyone is stunned: this is Jian Rong, the streamer who never shows his face! The comments on the appreciation event’s livestream go wild: [Wait, what?? Gorgeous beauty, who are you??] [Wasn’t the whole thing supposed to be scripted?] [Tell me, how much does it cost to get a National Museum expert to act in a skit?] Pei Xulin, the host of the event, watches a blurry figure hurry out of the hotel on the security monitor. The corner of his mouth lifts. “Found you.” But before Pei Xulin can catch him, Jian Rong flees overnight with all his belongings. Until he runs into Pei Xulin by a hospital elevator. Jian Rong is bundled up, with only his eyes showing, and clutching a pregnancy test report. He’s cornered against the wall. Pei Xulin blocks the missing streamer, his eyes fixed on Jian Rong’s protruding belly. “This is...” Jian Rong tries to steady his legs, which want to run, and blurts out a word he just learned: “A ball... as in running off with the ball?” Everyone knows Pei Xulin has stayed on the mainland to search for the family heirloom his family lost long ago. Now he’s found it. Reading notes: 1. Jian Rong’s social anxiety developed later in life, and there’s a reason for it. 2. It really was a one-night stand, he really does run off pregnant, and yes, it really is melodramatic. Don’t doubt it! 3. This is a livestream novel, so there will be plenty of livestream content, split about evenly between online and offline. 4. One-on-one, both leads’ first partners. Six-year age gap: Jian is 22, Pei is 28. I don’t like writing secondary pairings. The character art was commissioned by me for this couple. 5. If you like it, enjoy. If it’s not to your taste, pick another book. No need to make each other miserable. 6. I don’t accept requests for nonstandard or invented wording. Comments of that kind will be deleted. Theme: A steadfast heart, passing the torch from one generation to the next.