To get his son to work hard at school, Ren Fushan praised other people's kids three times a day.
But his own son remained completely unmoved.
His son kept getting older, and fatter and fatter. He was barreling toward 200 kilograms and still wanted to do nothing but eat and wait to die.
Ren Fushan was so worried that his hair was turning white by the handful.
With no other choice, he decided to hit him with a drastic measure in the year his son turned eighteen.
"Ren Xu, there's something I need to tell you. You're not actually my biological son. You were switched at birth in the hospital. Your real father has found you."
The father he had concocted for his son was a middle-aged man with a severe illness, paralyzed from the waist down, living alone in the mountains.
After arranging everything, he sent his son off to the mountains to toughen him up.
Surely, after a year in such harsh conditions, his son would shed his laziness, study hard, shoulder the family's responsibilities, and become a well-rounded young man.
The easygoing Ren Xu accepted it calmly.
Back in his "hometown," Ren Xu had no interest in studying. He figured he might as well make the best of things.
Everyone farmed, so he farmed too.
Everyone married, so he married too.
The only thing was, his wife was a man.
The gender wasn't quite what he had expected... but on second thought, never mind. The family was poor, so he shouldn't be too picky.
Except his wife was actually the "other people's kid" his "foster father" had talked about?
And now he was pregnant?
And he had run off with the baby?
Ren Xu couldn't stay calm anymore.
I'm a rich second-generation heir, then I'm not, then I am again. Gong & I was framed, forced into a substitute marriage, got pregnant, and ran away. Shou
Content warning: The author's IQ keeps jumping between intellectually disabled and normal, but they want to write two geniuses.
A short story under 200,000 words.
Theme: Teach according to one's abilities & hard work wins you a wife