After Dumping My Idiot Ex-Husband

[Ancient ABO, Alpha-Beta romance, Alpha x Beta, childbirth]

▎Synopsis

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The Shen Family of Yunzhan is the richest family in the world, with a lofty reputation throughout the martial world. Though the head of the family, Shen Qingzhi, is a Beta, he possesses an extraordinary bearing and breathtaking beauty, earning the admiration of countless Omegas and the envy of Alphas.

The elders of the Shen Family hope Shen Qingzhi will settle down soon, and have introduced him to quite a few Omegas and Betas. Unfortunately, he is wholly absorbed in the family business and has no interest in marriage, so nothing has come of it.

But no one expected that after two years away on business, Shen Qingzhi would return with a month-old illegitimate child in his arms.

The child's birth mother is unknown. Rumor has it that the baby was born to a mistress Shen Qingzhi kept while doing business abroad, who died in childbirth.

Strangely, the Shen Family, who had always cared most about family background, made no comment at all, and neither did Shen Qingzhi himself.

2.

A Yu has been sweet and sensible since childhood. But an illness he contracted in the womb left him congenitally weak and prone to sickness. The Shen Family searched high and low for renowned doctors, but they all said A Yu would not live past childhood. Still, if he began martial arts training from a young age to strengthen his body, there might be a chance.

Heartbroken for his only child, Shen Qingzhi offers a reward of ten thousand gold pieces and sends out invitations to heroes everywhere, hoping to find A Yu a martial arts master with profound skills who suits him perfectly.

Martial artists from every school and sect in the martial world come at the news, but none meet Shen Qingzhi's standards.

Assassins suddenly attack, plunging the gathering into chaos and danger. A Yu falls into the hands of a bandit, his life hanging by a thread.

A tall, silent man, weather-beaten and carrying a black iron spear, suddenly appears and turns the tide, saving A Yu.

Shen Qingzhi offers ten thousand taels of gold in gratitude, but the man only gazes at him in silence.

After a long pause, he says he does not want the gold. If possible, he would like to stay at the Shen residence as a martial arts instructor.

3.

Everyone thinks Shen Qingzhi spent the two years he was away from the Shen Family doing business in the Western Regions. In truth, he fell off a cliff and lost his memory.

Now that his memories have returned, Shen Qingzhi vaguely recalls that during the year he was amnesiac, he somehow married a man and became his husband.

Though the man never mistreated him during that year, and in fact did everything he could to treat him as well as possible, Shen Qingzhi still left without hesitation as soon as his memory returned.

Shen Qingzhi no longer remembers that year, but now and then, hazy fragments of their loving moments still flash before his eyes.

Sometimes he wonders how that honest, quiet, foolish man who lived in a thatched hut halfway up the waterfall mountain is doing. Without Shen Qingzhi by his side, is he still foolishly letting others bully him without fighting back?

But that is not enough to make Shen Qingzhi abandon the empire he built with his own hands and go back to find him.

But just as he is about to return to the Shen Family and continue his life's work, Shen Qingzhi discovers that he is pregnant.

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#I came back from a long trip and found my huge husband gone#

#I searched for my husband for five years, only to find out he's the richest man in the world#

#My lost husband forgot me and even had a child with someone else#

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A beautiful, independent, career-minded, seductive “widow” who raises a child alone

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A highly skilled, dependable, honest, and rugged man who searched for his wife for five years, thought she had a child with someone else, but still loves her so much he is even willing to be “the other man,” then wrestles with his conscience again and again

● Childbirth, running away while pregnant, sweet romance, size difference

● The male lead has no secret royal or noble identity. He really is a commoner, and his only principle in life is loving his wife. If she kills someone, he hands her the knife. He firmly believes that without his wife, there would be no him.

● The love interest is an absolute heartthrob. Many disposable characters fall for him after meeting him just once, and plenty of crazed creeps covet him. Don't ask me how a Beta can be a beautiful heartthrob. This is just what I like. If you don't like it, don't click in. If you do click in and leave comments like that, I'll delete them.

Some basic worldbuilding:

Alpha: Qian

Beta: Zhongyong

Omega: Kunze

Pheromones: Xianxiang

>>> Coming Soon | Historical Danmei | ABO | Childbirth | Angst | He Runs, He Chases

Elder Brother

The Ninth Prince, Qing Ling, is not the Emperor's son.

This is an open secret throughout the palace.

His birth mother's tangled relationship with the Emperor's lone loyal subject, his Beta gender, so much less esteemed than Alphas and Omegas, his timid, awkward personality, and his unremarkable looks all make life in the imperial palace difficult for him before he turns eighteen. It is nothing unusual.

That is, until one day, after a visit to the imperial baths, the gentle and benevolent Crown Prince takes him to the Eastern Palace, where he raises him in luxury and protects him with the utmost care.

Outsiders think Qing Ling is simply lucky to have won the Crown Prince's favor. After all, even the Crown Prince's own brother doesn't receive such affection.

But only Qing Ling knows that the year he spent confined in the Eastern Palace was the nightmare of his life.

The layers of kiss marks beneath his clothes, the bite mark on the back of his neck, the scars from chains around his ankles...

So, when the Eastern Palace went up in flames,

he ran.

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The fire at the Eastern Palace burned through the night, but only two people died:

One was the unremarkable, incompetent, untalented Ninth Prince Shen Qingling, who had fortunately earned the Emperor's favor and was about to leave the Eastern Palace to marry and start a family.

The other was the beauty A Ling, said to be peerlessly beautiful and kept hidden in the Eastern Palace by Crown Prince Shen Changji, who bewitched him so thoroughly that he defied the Emperor's edict and refused to take a Crown Princess.

A year later, just as everyone was lamenting the beauty's untimely death, the Crown Prince staged a coup overnight, killed his father, and ascended the throne amid blood spilling from the blades.

After that, in stark contrast to the rapidly expanding territory on the war maps, the Emperor's harem remained empty and desolate for three years.

Until a remote small kingdom was conquered. To save himself, its king schemed to offer up the beautiful wife of a loyal subject, a man who had just died defending the kingdom.

Everything changed.

[Timid beauty x Beast in fine clothes]

● Historical ABO, angst, powerful gong and weak shou. The shou is extremely, extremely, extremely weak but universally adored. The gong is extremely, extremely, extremely deranged, but loves only the shou.

● After escaping, the shou married someone else and was very happy. He even had that person's child.

Theme: To love you is to be reborn through the flames.