My Archenemy Keeps Wanting to Have My Baby

Heir to a powerful financial family: possessive, unhinged gong vs. the entertainment industry's darling: spoiled, temperamental young master (pregnancy! The gong gives birth!)

Jiang Chounian gets blacklisted after offending a powerful financial family.

His fan site manager jumps ship, his fellow trainees mock him, and the executives keep him down. His chances of debuting as part of a group seem hopeless. Unable to take it anymore, Jiang Chounian throws in the towel in a rage: "I'm done! Why bother being an idol? This young master is going home to inherit billions!"

After scraping together enough money to return home, he's told that his parents have gone bankrupt and fled...

"WTF!" Where's my billion-dollar inheritance?!

Jiang Chounian checks the national rich list overnight. In first place is his childhood friend and mortal enemy, Shang Ci.

Jiang Chounian stares at his phone like a bewildered old man on the subway: Shang Ci's dad got rich raising pigs and made his son the richest man in the country!

Could anything be more ridiculous?

Thinking of all his "glorious deeds" as a kid, like pinning Shang Ci to the ground and beating him, ostracizing him, giving him the cold shoulder, and eating the little piglet Shang Ci raised, Jiang Chounian trembles in fear and makes a run for it in the middle of the night.

Before he can get far, Shang Ci is already blocking his door. "Let's call a truce. Marry me, and you'll be a rich family's pampered spouse from now on."

Jiang Chounian: "In your wildest dreams! I'd rather die than give in! Better to be broken jade than an intact tile!"

His inner monologue: He's definitely planning to ignore me, ostracize me, imprison me, and do all sorts of things to me.

Shang Ci: "The villas are yours, and you'll get five million a month in spending money. If you want to stay home and enjoy yourself, you'll have fifty housekeepers at your beck and call. If you want to make a comeback, you can pick any resources you want."

Jiang Chounian is tempted: "You can do that?"

Shang Ci: "There's a catch. Marry me and give me a baby."

Jiang Chounian: "Pfft! Shameless! Dream on!"

I'm a man. I can't have kids! You're forcing a man to marry you!

Six months later...

Jiang Chounian stares at his own hubby's rounded belly, completely at a loss. How can he have a baby? It must be because of all the milk tea, hot pot, and little cakes!

Gong's perspective:

The stupidest thing Shang Ci did in his previous life was mistake his love for Jiang Chounian for hatred, turning a perfectly good childhood friendship into a relationship of mutual antagonism.

Ever since they were kids, he and Jiang Chounian competed over everything: grades, looks, careers... even who would find a partner first.

At school, Shang Ci crushed Jiang Chounian in their grades by a huge margin. After entering the workforce, he used his financial power to blacklist him with ease.

Shang Ci was a famous investor in the industry, while Jiang Chounian was only a minor idol who got by on his looks and took whatever small roles came his way. He was convinced he was better than Jiang Chounian in every way, but when it came to love, Jiang Chounian got there first.

On the day Jiang Chounian announced his relationship, Shang Ci, unable to stand losing, quickly kept a pretty young man and paraded him in front of Jiang Chounian, determined to find a partner first.

On the day Jiang Chounian got engaged, Shang Ci announced his own engagement while holding his kept lover's hand.

On the day Jiang Chounian got married, Shang Ci completely lost control. The feelings he'd suppressed for twenty-seven years erupted, and he disrupted the wedding and hid Jiang Chounian away.

From childhood friends to forcibly claiming him, Shang Ci drove Jiang Chounian's parents deep into debt, took away the little prince's protection, and ruined his reputation and his chastity, leaving him with no choice but to rely on Shang Ci.

From loving and fighting to loathing the sight of each other, it all ended in tragedy with their deaths.

Reborn, he plans to put away his claws and get along peacefully with Jiang Chounian, building a good childhood friendship and following the conventional path of dating, marrying, and having a child.

And yet...

Jiang Chounian is currently sprawled at his feet, clutching his broken leg and grimacing in pain, while Shang Ci happens to be holding the weapon he used to break it.

Oh, crap.

He almost made himself a widower with his own hands.

Shang Ci hurriedly drops the chair leg and kneels to apologize: "Honey, listen to me. I wasn't trying to fight you."

Jiang Chounian stares at him for a long moment, then roars: "Who the hell is your wife? You ice-cold bastard, we're enemies for life! From today on, either you go or I go!"

Shang Ci: This is bad. Does this mean we're going to have to go down the forced-love route again?

Well, fine. I'll get him home first.

Reader's guide:

1. A possessive, jealous big-shot gong vs. a hot-tempered, ridiculous shou adored by the entire entertainment industry. They're mortal enemies at first, genuine mortal enemies, the kind who fight until one breaks the other's leg;

2. The gong pursues his wife with all his might, while the shou couldn't care less;

3. Both are reborn, the gong first and the shou later. Sweet at first, then angsty, then sweet again, with just a tiny bit of angst;

4. Pregnancy. The gong gives birth (whoever wants the baby is the one who gives birth);

Coming soon

After the Tragic Shou Awakens, He Comes Back for Revenge

A domineering, unhinged school bully gong vs. a delicate, weak-looking, scheming honor student shou

Only after his death does Si Ran learn that he's living inside a book, playing the role of the world's most tragic shou, the one who gets hurt by everyone.

Just how tragic is he?

At the age of three, his half-brother abandons him, and he spends twelve years wandering around, living on scraps.

At fifteen, his family finds him and brings him back. The first thing they're waiting for him to do is donate bone marrow to the illegitimate son of the mistress who killed his birth mother!

Si Ran: What kind of sucker's life is this? Is my purpose in life to be a mobile bone marrow bank for some brat who's only related to me by half our blood?

After the mistress is done using him, his sweet-faced younger brother frames him for having sex, nearly getting him sent to jail.

Si Ran: Author, do you have no heart? I'm only fifteen!

At sixteen, he's kicked into an elite school, where the domineering, cool, and arrogant male lead falls in love at first sight with him, a wild weed growing stubbornly wherever it can.

But instead of the mutual love and salvation promised by a happy ending, the male lead bullies him at school under the excuse of "I pick on you because I love you."

Si Ran: Just keep smiling and living.

The male lead corners him behind the school every few days to tease and mock him, bullies him, changes his college entrance exam choices, sexually harasses him, and even forces him into marriage!

And through all of it, he's expected to stay strong, work hard, remain optimistic, and blindly follow the plot as a disposable pawn, before ending up grateful for his happy ending and using his kindness to reform the violent, sinister male lead so they can live happily ever after!

Si Ran: Author, are you an idiot?

What did I ever do to you? Aren't I your own son?! Why are you putting me through so much?

Don't I deserve a healthy male lead, both mentally and physically?

Reborn, awakened to the truth, and holding the script of his own life, Si Ran turns thoroughly evil and takes revenge on every scumbag he can get his hands on.

His older brother sells him?

Si Ran: "Hello, 110? I'd like to report my brother for child trafficking!"

And then his older brother ends up at the police station.

His stepmother tries to guilt-trip him into donating bone marrow?

Si Ran: "The law says people under eighteen can't donate bone marrow. I'm a law-abiding citizen. If my brother dies, I'll set off firecrackers at his grave and wish him a good next life. Maybe in twenty years he'll come back as a decent person."

The male lead bullies him at school?

Si Ran: "Hello, Officer? There's a group fight going on, and someone's bullying a student."

And then the male lead ends up in jail, too.

Years later, the male lead tries to force him into marriage again.

Si Ran takes his adorable deskmate's hand and laces their fingers together. "Sorry, I'm married. Meet my wife."

Reader's guide:

1. The gong is strong on the outside but weak on the inside; the shou is weak on the outside but strong on the inside;

2. Both are each other's one and only;

Theme: After the storm comes the rainbow