[Slightly coercive romance / long-planned scheme] [Carefree and shameless x cold-faced underwear washer]
Xue Miaoyi woke up and found herself ten years in the future, right in the middle of catching someone cheating.
Still dizzy, she heard a man outside the door, holding a baby, snap at her: "Next time you sneak off to meet your lover with the bastard in your belly, can you at least leave my son out of it?!"
The door slammed shut in anger. Xue Miaoyi looked down at her disheveled clothes and inexplicably swollen belly, bewildered.
Hadn't she spent last night figuring out how to slip a laxative to her nemesis, Xie Lingheng, at her coming-of-age banquet tomorrow?
How had one night's sleep turned her into a mother of two?
After her "affair" failed, her husband's family dragged her back to the estate. From a maid, she learned that she'd once gone to extreme lengths to marry Xie Lingheng, the current chief minister: crying, throwing tantrums, threatening suicide, and even drugging him so she could force the deed and make him hers. Worst of all, she'd ruined his relationship with the person he loved.
After they married, she'd cheated on him too, carrying on with the young lord next door, the guards at the estate, and a young military officer.
She'd thrown herself at Xie Lingheng? And grown up to be a wicked woman? Impossible!
That awful man would secretly sell the little rabbit her guard brother gave her, burn the pretty dresses the young lord next door sent her, make her embarrass herself in front of the person she loved, and ruin the promising match between her and the crown prince.
To get back at him, she made Xie Lingheng fall off his horse and nearly die, then smiled sweetly as she added a potion that would make him infertile to the soup she made for him.
Their story had clearly ended with him punching her and her slapping Xie Lingheng. They'd called it even and sworn never to see each other again.
How could two people who were so disgusted by the sight of each other end up in the same bed and make a baby?
Xue Miaoyi decided this whole mess must have been caused by the transmigrator from a story who had taken over her body.
That night, she wrote up divorce papers and went to Xie Lingheng's study with her belly sticking out.
By candlelight, each character on the rice paper shone with brilliance. Xie Lingheng stared at the divorce papers for a long while, then lifted his reddened eyes. Instead of getting angry, he laughed. "Did it really have to come to this? You're willing to abandon your son for him?"
Before Xue Miaoyi could speak, the man's face darkened. He tore the divorce papers to shreds, then ordered his people to tie her up and lock her in a dark room.
Xie Lingheng would never forget the day the Xue family was exiled, with the bitter wind cutting through them. The young girl, wearing only a thin undergarment, huddled in his arms, gazing into his eyes with rare tenderness.
She kissed him through her tears and smiled more sadly than she cried. "Take care, Brother Lingheng. There won't be any more bad women to bicker with you. You have to be well, okay? I'm off!"
"..."
He had softened for a moment, set aside their grievances, and risked being accused of treason to save her.
But later, the empty space beside him each night and the baby crying in the cradle, with no mother to hold him, proved how completely wrong he'd been.
Now that woman had gone even further, using a fake death and a staged fall from a cliff to escape him and protect the bastard in her belly. She'd abandoned her husband and child, then vanished without a trace for months.
This time, Xie Lingheng, who had indulged Xue Miaoyi for decades, decided he would no longer let her have her way...
[Reader's Guide]
1. The male lead is a virgin. The female lead transmigrates, her memories frozen at age fifteen, while her body is twenty-five.
2. There are lots of misunderstandings, and both leads love each other. The female lead did use the male lead, but she has amnesia and has forgotten that she truly loved him, leaving him completely bewildered.
3. There are lots of "love interests" around the female lead, and they'll compete for her attention in a very scheming, two-faced way.
Theme: Work hard, strive forward, and keep improving.
