I Really Don't Want to Bear an Heir for the Enemy Emperor

[Reborn, Timid and Life-Loving, Soft and Adorable Emperor x Resentful, Cunning, Unhinged Emperor]

After being reborn, Jing Changqing has only one goal in life: to survive.

In his previous life, he was a pampered crown prince, arrogant and lawless. In a fit of temper, he humiliated Zongzheng Rongyu, a hostage from an enemy kingdom.

Who would have thought that the seemingly helpless young hostage would become the future emperor of that enemy kingdom?

He dreams countless times of the Great Xiao falling in his previous life, the land engulfed in flames, and himself reduced to a prisoner, crawling on the ground and forced into the new emperor's bedchamber.

In the dream, Zongzheng Rongyu, brimming with murderous rage, looks down at him and says coldly, "Your Highness, Crown Prince. Long time no see."

In the blink of an eye, the enemy's cavalry tramples Great Xiao.

Jing Changqing's country is destroyed and his family wiped out. His end is utterly miserable, and he regrets it bitterly.

Reborn, Jing Changqing has become completely timid!

He changes his temper, keeps his anger in check, behaves himself, and stays well away from Zongzheng Rongyu.

But there's one problem: he is reborn at the very moment he tries to drug Zongzheng Rongyu and force himself on him.

Looking at Zongzheng Rongyu, chained to the bed, he shudders. "If I said I just wanted to sell you these chains and ask you to test them, would you believe me..."

The man looks up, startled and suspicious.

After that, Jing Changqing brings him pastries and helps him out of trouble, all in the hope of staying alive in the future. He doesn't notice that the hostage's gaze is growing darker and more intense, as if it holds an obsession he cannot understand.

He diligently plays the obedient crown prince and successfully ascends the throne, securing his position as emperor.

Then, in a moment of overexcitement, he gets drunk and loses control for one night.

The soft murmurs from the previous night keep echoing in his ears, along with the feverish entanglement between the sheets...

Many days later, his belly begins to swell. Jing Changqing is stunned. I'm done for.

Of all the people he could have gotten pregnant by, it had to be the child of his sworn enemy, the man who killed him in his previous life.

He quickly changes tactics: take good care of the pregnancy. If he can't beat him, he can rely on the child to save his life. It's his child, after all. Surely it can buy him another chance to live!

So he spends every day anxiously hiding his belly and cautiously getting through the pregnancy.

But the more obedient and evasive he is, the darker and stranger the hostage's gaze becomes. "Your Highness, are you... ill?"

Changqing nods vigorously. "Yes, yes, yes. An old chronic condition!"

Zongzheng Rongyu stares deeply at him, his eagle-sharp eyes seeing right through him. "Your Majesty has been avoiding me lately?"

"Your Majesty's belly... Why is it so strange?"

"What do you dream about in your nightmares every night, Your Majesty?"

The little emperor trembles: No, really, nothing!

In the end, Zongzheng Rongyu conquers the land and brings his cavalry to the city gates, surrounding the capital.

The officials plead with the emperor not to surrender. Jing Changqing steels himself and stands on the battlements, holding his round pregnant belly. He makes up his mind: Fine, fight. Kill me. If I die, the child dies too, and we can all be done with it.

But the enemy's new emperor, covered in the blood of countless battles below, fixes his gaze on one person. Seeing Jing Changqing's prominently rounded belly from afar, his expression suddenly stills, and his overwhelming fury vanishes completely.

An attendant asks in a trembling voice, "Your Majesty... Are we still attacking?"

"Withdraw the troops."

"I will go and marry my empress."

Jing Changqing: ?

Reader's note:

This is the seventh-generation story in the completed novel The Aloof Chancellor Is Carrying His Sworn Enemy's Child. Some plot details may differ, but the overall story remains the same.

Theme: As long as you are alive, there is always hope