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Blurb:
Fang Shulai has been alive for over twenty years and has always been as pure as a man can be. Then the doctor tells him he's pregnant.
Fang Shulai thinks the doctor has gone crazy.
But what's even crazier is that Tan Yanhan's secretary comes to tell him that only men can become pregnant in the Tan clan. It's a family secret.
Then the secretary shoves a confidentiality agreement at him to sign.
Ha! A man is pregnant, and carrying the child of the great clan head Tan? What a ridiculous joke!
But an even more ridiculous fate is waiting for him.
When Fang Shulai was thirteen, he rescued a man in the border region. That man later became a clan head feared by everyone.
Fang Shulai had looked up at his tall figure in the crowd countless times. Everyone said he was domineering, cruel, and merciless, but only Fang Shulai knew how warm those rough palms were.
Fang Shulai once thought he would always admire him from afar, and that he would always be able to bask in that warmth.
He never expected that the heavy snowfall would change everything.
Fang Shulai struggled and screamed, but the man kept inflicting one absurd humiliation after another upon him.
"I'm a man."
"Who said you weren't?"
"Men can't get pregnant or give birth..."
With his palm resting over Fang Shulai's belly, the man breathed warm air against him. "We can. In a few more months, we'll have the baby."
After the child was born, Fang Shulai looked at him. "When will you let me go?"
Holding the swaddled baby in his arms, the man's eyes darkened. "Don't you want to see the child?"
A wretch from the slums, despised by the Tan family and a source of shame to them, somehow ended up sitting at their table.
His repeated overstepping and transgressions were unbearable, yet the ruthless, merciless clan head simply let it happen.
He didn't just let it happen, he even worried Fang Shulai might not get enough to eat and personally rolled up his sleeves to cook, saying, "He can't get used to anyone else's cooking"?!
Everything's gone haywire! It's all gone haywire!
A despotic, ruthless, controlling patriarch
A cool beauty with a slender waist and long legs who refuses to be controlled
1. Older man and younger man, with an eleven-year age gap, a big difference in build, and a huge difference in status.
2. Very melodramatic and very old-fashioned, with pregnancy and childbirth.
3. The protagonists aren't perfect people. Definitely not for readers who strongly favor one character over another [highlight].
4. All settings are fictional. Archived on 2026/06/11.
Theme: Ideals never die, and love lasts forever.
Hey, boss, you can't set up Jinjiang Coin reading. I think it can only be paid on a monthly basis.
Madam, the writing is very good, although the criticism is not clean, but it may be a problem of the background of the times (I like to imagine the world view, and I can't stand myself when I rationalize the unreasonable things)
Madam, is this the final article? I came here based on recommendations online. So not sure 😳