The Sickly Beauty Sent as a Bride Wants to Run Away with Her Baby [Book Transmigration]

*Advance notice: Please add My Crimes Deserve a Thousand Deaths to your reading list!

*Chai Xuejin, the capital's most famous frail beauty, learns by chance on his way to Dongyi for a political marriage that he is living in a novel. Worse, he is a pitiful cannon-fodder character destined to die on his wedding night and be used as a bargaining chip by the emperor. To stay alive, Chai Xuejin has no choice but to run.

But before he gets far, a monk hauls him back over his shoulder. Chai Xuejin assumes the man is after money, only to discover he is Sibaizhao, the beloved youngest son of the King of Dongyi.

In the original story, Sibaizhao is exceptionally handsome and a valiant warrior, a grassland wolf king capable of leading Dongyi to stand as an equal to the imperial court.

Unable to escape, Chai Xuejin decides he might as well cling to a powerful patron. At least that way, he can stay alive.

Who could have guessed that Sibaizhao would be so cold toward him, even warning him to observe the rules of male chastity? After several such encounters, Chai Xuejin has no choice but to think of another plan.

Before he can come up with one, the King of Dongyi kicks the bucket before the wedding.

Dongyi is plunged into civil war, and Chai Xuejin, widowed before he can even marry, finds himself in an awkward position. Gradually, he notices the people around him looking at him strangely.

It turns out Dongyi has a saying: whoever inherits the throne inherits everything belonging to the king, including his wife.

Thinking of the look in Sibaizhao's eyes, Chai Xuejin is left speechless. Is anyone going to let him live?

As he racks his brain trying to survive, his belly... slowly grows.

Chai Xuejin: "..."

This is going to kill me.

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The first time Sibaizhao meets Chai Xuejin, the man is disheveled, his palm-sized face alluringly bewitching and enough to make anyone's heart race. After several encounters, Sibaizhao is convinced this little beauty from the Central Plains has designs on him.

He wants no part of a man like that. Once you get involved, you'll never get rid of him.

But when he learns that all his brothers vying for the throne are willing to give it up in exchange for Chai Xuejin, he can't help feeling displeased.

This fair-skinned little beauty is his alone. No one else can touch him.

A beautiful, delicate yet resilient bottom who stays alive, gentle on the outside and strong within X a blunt-talking, secretly lustful top who can't resist his wife's body

*Next book preview:

Lu Jinxue wakes from a dream in a cold sweat. In two days, he will die in a brothel, becoming the emperor's first pawn in his struggle to seize power.

The current emperor, Huo Wuju, ascended the throne as a child. With internal and external threats mounting, he had no choice but to rely on his uncle, the famed God of War, to hold the court together. Now that the empire is at peace, Huo Wuju is no longer content to be a puppet and begins planning to break free.

On the day Huo Wuju was installed on the throne, the Empress Dowager repeatedly warned him to conceal his abilities and never let his uncle see that he wanted to seize power.

Ten years of lying low and biding his time.

Huo Wuju believes he can now stand against his uncle as an equal. After months of planning, he decides the Ministry of Justice is the best choice to investigate the governor's illegal sale of official posts.

Desperate to stay alive, Lu Jinxue declines every invitation to dine with his colleagues. But on the very day he is fated to die, he has to go to a brothel to investigate. He cannot disobey an imperial order, so he pays two experts to guard him. When disaster strikes, however, the two flee without looking back.

In his panic, Lu Jinxue jumps through a window into the room next door and crashes straight into a stranger's arms. The man catches him securely.

Lu Jinxue starts to thank him, but the words catch in his throat. He drops to his knees, terrified, and stammers, "Y-Your humble subject deserves a thousand deaths."

Huo Wuju has never paid any attention to a lowly ninth-rank official. When the empire needs a sacrifice, he expects that man to comply without complaint. Just as Huo Wuju expects, Lu Jinxue kneels and loudly declares that he would brave fire and water for His Majesty. He looks utterly loyal and ready to die at a moment's notice.

He is selfless and remarkably skilled at investigating cases, making Huo Wuju quickly realize his value.

Later, Huo Wuju discovers that the ninth-rank official's obedient demeanor around him is all an act. In secret, Lu Jinxue has already planned to fake his death and run away once Huo Wuju secures his power.

Huo Wuju sneers. "Very well. Let's see how far you can run."

Years later, a rumor spreads through the streets: the current emperor keeps an incomparable beauty hidden in his palace, lavishing him with favor until he can barely be bothered to attend court.

Lu Jinxue: :)

Nobody told me that when a cannon-fodder character survives, the story's protagonist goes off the rails like this!

A bold cannon-fodder bottom who pretends to adore the emperor to stay alive X a refined scoundrel top who pursues his ambitions and his beloved

*Reader's Guide:

1. Bottom's perspective, with some top's perspective, and a plot-focused story.

2. An entirely fictional transmigration-into-a-book story. Don't overthink the historical details.

3. Enjoy the story; feel free to stay or leave.

4. Just reserving a spot. I'll add more if I think of anything.

Theme: If you dare to be brave, anything is possible.