After Having a Child with My Rival, the Dragon-Pride Hero

"You say you're the villain in a story, and Senior Brother is the domineering protagonist gong who'll kill you?"

"That's right."

"Junior Brother, stop messing with me. You two don't even have a grudge."

His beloved whispered to him tenderly. Tuo Yunyao felt utterly hopeless.

They hadn't had a grudge before, but he'd accidentally put the love bug meant for Second Senior Brother on Cen Guanchuan instead.

And, by an unlucky coincidence, he'd spent the night with him.

Now they had a grudge.

Even worse, he only found out afterward that Cen Guanchuan was the protagonist gong and he was the villainous love rival.

After all that, he not only ended up as part of Cen Guanchuan and Second Senior Brother's bedroom games, but also met a gruesome end.

Fine. Either way, he was going to die.

Tuo Yunyao resolved that before he died, he'd make Cen Guanchuan miserable, and make sure he never got Second Senior Brother!

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But Cen Guanchuan was just as determined to get revenge on him. The seemingly gentle and refined Senior Brother used every underhanded trick he could think of against him.

One day he'd send him down the mountain on an errand, and the next he'd dump a new apprentice's training on him.

Tuo Yunyao was so exhausted every day that he fell asleep the moment he lay down. Cen Guanchuan, meanwhile, leisurely watched him suffer and didn't forget to threaten him: "You don't want anyone else finding out about this, do you?"

Tuo Yunyao refused to back down.

He stole and ate the lunch Cen Guanchuan had prepared for Second Senior Brother. He snatched the sword tassel Cen Guanchuan had made and wore it himself. He even went around making up scandalous stories about Cen Guanchuan...

That night, he was pinned to the bed and pounded mercilessly. The usually gentle Senior Brother said darkly, "I had no idea you were this deeply in love with me."

Watching the relationship take one unexpected turn after another, Tuo Yunyao had barely started to gloat when he noticed his belly growing rounder by the day.

He was pregnant.

With the protagonist gong's child.

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Tuo Yunyao promptly kept it secret, dispelled the love bug, gave birth, and handed the baby straight to Cen Guanchuan to spite him one last time.

Then he fled in the middle of the night and switched sides to the Demon Realm.

There were plenty of handsome men in the Demon Realm, and they were generous, too. Tuo Yunyao luxuriated in their tender attentions, unable to stop himself from laughing as he imagined Cen Guanchuan struggling to raise a child.

Serves him right.

But as soon as he stepped out of the brothel, a little white bundle blocked his way.

The child had a face that looked eighty percent like his own. He grabbed Tuo Yunyao's hand and shouted fiercely to the person beside him, "We've caught Papa!"

Papa?

Tuo Yunyao looked up and saw Cen Guanchuan standing just a step away, smiling at him. He should have been at Qingxiao Sect, receiving the Sect Master's formal welcome.

That night, Tuo Yunyao was forcibly pinned to the small bed at Qingxiao Sect, his consciousness fading as he sobbed uncontrollably.

Cen Guanchuan calmly listed his crimes: "Beating up fellow disciples, defecting to the Demon Realm, abandoning your husband and child... Tuo Yunyao, what do you want?"

"Waaah... No, wait. Why are you the husband?"

Cen Guanchuan sneered.

"Have another child, and you'll find out who's the husband."

[Competitive, flirtatious, proud and sharp-tongued bottom x Refined scoundrel, scheming and secretly seductive top]

[Reader's Guide]

1. The top and bottom are genuine love rivals, a couple who are always at odds. Neither has been with anyone else.

2. Second Senior Brother is straight.

3. The bottom was wrong to use the love bug, and the top will punish him for it. Both characters have flaws, and they'll grow.

Theme: Lovers will always find their way to each other.