The Pretty Opera Performer Is Carrying the Powerful Newcomer's Baby

[Domineering, straight-laced business upstart x glamorous, sharp-tongued, debauched opera performer]

[The bottom pursues the top; the bottom is adored by all, but this is a one-on-one romance; pregnancy plot, heed the warnings]

A shocking piece of news rocked the opera world.

The celebrated star and current head of the Changle Troupe, Xie Cangshan, known as the troupe's leading performer, was pregnant.

This man had a bewitching face, at times debauched, at times gentle, at times delicate and beautiful. His figure was exceptional, with a waist like a willow in spring and fingers like freshly peeled scallions. Every guest who came and went was captivated by his looks, and coveted his body, wanting to claim him for themselves.

With so many visitors and distinguished guests coming and going every day, no one could guess who had fathered the child in his belly.

Some said it was Mr. Zhu's, while others pointed to the English gentleman. Xie Cangshan himself knew that neither guess was right.

By the time the child's father came looking for him, Xie Cangshan was already showing. Yet he lied to him.

"The child's father is Mr. Zhu."

The child's father was silent for a moment.

"Even if it's Mr. Zhu's, I'll raise the child. Cangshan, all I want is you."

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Seven years earlier, snow had blanketed Haishi. Lin Tiannan had just arrived and nearly starved to death by the roadside, when the old head of the Changle Troupe took him in as a laborer.

When they first met, Xie Cangshan was only eleven or twelve, yet he already stood out, captivating Lin Tiannan's gaze among all the young female-role performers.

Before long, they were inseparable and told each other everything.

Lin Tiannan joked that one day he would marry Xie Cangshan.

Xie Cangshan vaguely understood what marriage meant. He also liked Lin Tiannan, who was tall, strong, and brawny, so the two of them rather haplessly pledged themselves to each other.

The war came without warning, and he and Xie Cangshan were separated. Then his enemies came after him. At last, just as his business began to prosper, he met Xie Cangshan again.

Lin Tiannan had planned to take things slowly, but Xie Cangshan suddenly pulled him into a room.

Lin Tiannan felt a heat rising through his body and immediately realized what was happening.

"That wine I just drank..."

"I put something in it. You don't mind, do you?"

Of course Lin Tiannan didn't mind.

As Mr. Lin, he had spent a night with the sought-after performer everyone wanted. As Lin Tiannan, the person before him was Xie Cangshan, the one he had fallen for at first sight as a boy.

Later, Xie Cangshan's belly slowly grew, until he could no longer hide it from the public, much less from Lin Tiannan.

"Cangshan, tell me the truth. Whose child is it?"

Warnings:

Both are sexually inexperienced, but there are some suggestive descriptions.

Pregnancy plot; the first child will be miscarried.

There are important side romances between men and between women.

The villains have romance plots, and there is also a bizarre, tangled love triangle between the heroes and villains.

Theme: Peace is hard-won.