After Failing to Humiliate My Aloof Classmate

Original title: The Number One Scholar Is Expecting, and the Second-Ranked Scholar Panics

A charming woman disguised as a man, the top scholar x a devoted second-ranked scholar, crawling through the darkness

Xie Zhiheng wanted to have a child, and set her sights on the new classmate: elegant, tall, slender-waisted, and long-legged. He looked like he would be good at bearing a child.

So she pretended to be his "classmate's younger sister," using a sweet voice and gentle words to lure him in. At the same time, she watched coldly as his classmate, feeling guilty, struggled and suffered in silence.

Once she got what she wanted, she tore off her disguise, humiliated him mercilessly, and left.

Until Shen Yanqing grabbed her by the nape and asked who the child's father was.

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Shen Yanqing knew how absurd it was.

He had secretly pledged himself to his "classmate's younger sister." Facing his friend, guilt gnawed at him, leaving him unable to sit still.

He never expected that after a few days apart, the "younger sister" would change her heart and marry someone else.

Shen Yanqing fell gravely ill, his heart turned to ash, until he accidentally noticed that his classmate craved sour and spicy food and had a round belly...

Xie, the top scholar, and Shen, the second-ranked scholar, passed the imperial exam in the same year and lived next door to each other. Their child called the other man "Dad," and called his own father that, too.

Someone advised Shen Yanqing that a friendship between gentlemen was as plain as water, and asked why he had to get so entangled with the top scholar Xie and invite gossip.

Shen Yanqing lowered his eyes, concealing the dark tide surging within them.

A friendship between gentlemen? He had clearly used half his life as bait, forcing Xie Zhiheng to spend a lifetime trapped in a cage of her own making.

Theme: Live toward the light.