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1. He was away on a business trip for three months; his wife was two months pregnant.

Lu Xiao spent the entire night awake.

The notorious Third Young Master Lu, known to the outside world as a rascal, stubbed out his cigarette and said to Meng Xuehuan, whose brows were slightly furrowed, “I’ve quit. I won’t smoke in front of you again.”

2. On the very first day Meng Xuehuan entered the entertainment industry, he and Lu Xiao registered their marriage. They agreed to fake a couple act and get divorced once they became famous.

When their duo became a hit, Meng Xuehuan brought out the divorce papers.

Lu Xiao scoffed. “Famous? We’ve barely gotten started.”

Two years later, Lu Xiao left the entertainment industry to go into business, and Meng Xuehuan planned to divorce him.

Lu Xiao said, “No rush. I need a stable marriage to face the shareholders.”

Lu Xiao went abroad to expand his business, and Meng Xuehuan was diagnosed with a false pregnancy.

Even a false pregnancy could reveal when he had supposedly conceived.

He hadn’t wanted to tell Lu Xiao and distract him from work, but Lu Xiao found out.

Meng Xuehuan recalled, “It was two months ago… the night you came back in secret.”

Lu Xiao didn’t tell Meng Xuehuan that he’d slept so deeply that night, and he’d felt too softhearted to go all the way.

He hadn’t been entirely softhearted, though. His fingers had still managed to leave him thoroughly worn out.

Luckily, Lu Xiao had hurried back for one night. He could still become a father in name, and keep his dignity.

3. Lu Xiao quietly took care of Meng Xuehuan through a month of false pregnancy symptoms.

Before he could do anything, Meng Xuehuan had another false pregnancy.

???!!!

Lu Xiao turned dark in an instant, went berserk on the spot, and made his wife run away in anger.

Meng Xuehuan: Eek, he’s going to find out I’m a queen bee.

4. Later, Meng Xuehuan really did get pregnant. Lu Xiao said with great composure, “Spiritually speaking, I’m already the father of three.”

(The uke has bee-spirit blood, and his pregnancy works in a special way. One-on-one romance, body and soul.)

Coming soon: Your Younger Brother Has Come to See the Empress. Historical danmei, pregnancy.

After the new emperor ascended the throne, on the night of his wedding, Shen Mingzhu, the son of the prime minister, was summoned to the palace.

His younger sister, the empress, knelt on the ground and asked her brother to take her place in the imperial harem.

It turned out that the emperor was impotent and, afraid people would find out, had asked the empress to cover for him and deal with the three thousand spies in the harem. Prince Ling, who commanded a powerful army, would soon return to the capital with his eyes on the throne. If he got hold of any leverage, the imperial power would change hands.

Shen Mingzhu’s younger sister was gentle and timid, incapable of handling such an important task.

The Shen family had served the throne loyally for generations, so Shen Mingzhu had no choice but to disguise himself as his sister and become empress, ruling the harem with an iron hand and gaining considerable control over the court as well.

But Prince Ling, newly returned to the capital, was pressing too hard. The emperor demanded that Shen Mingzhu quickly produce a few royal heirs to silence the rumors.

Shen Mingzhu could only discreetly choose tall, strong substitutes to take the emperor’s place in the imperial harem.

Somehow, Prince Ling Xiao Tiannan found out.

The tall, handsome man cornered the frail, slender empress in a secluded, abandoned palace. His smile never reached his eyes. “If Empress Sister-in-law needs a donor, why not ask me?”

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Xiao Tiannan had recently discovered that Shen, the eldest young master of the former court, and the haughty, aloof empress in the harem were the same person.

Excellent. That saved the historians from having to record a younger brother stealing his elder brother’s wife, or a subject stealing the emperor’s wife.

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Prince Ling declared that either the empress would ask him to provide a child, or the emperor’s impotence would be made public. Either outcome would be a threat to the throne.

Shen Mingzhu faced the most troubling problem of his life.

Three months later, an even more troubling problem arose: he discovered his belly was growing.

Theme: Look beyond appearances to see the truth.