The Cousin's Daughter Is Pregnant

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The young cousin was pregnant. The news spread through the entire Marquis's manor in no time.

It should have been cause for celebration, but instead it left the old madam deeply troubled.

The young cousin, Rong Wen, was still unmarried. Who could the child's father be?

A few days later, someone came forward to claim the child she was carrying, only to make the old madam even more distressed.

Because more than one person claimed the child.

The Marquis's third young master, Gu Yansong, had just claimed it when the second young master, Gu Guannan, came forward too.

The old madam looked at Rong Wen and lost her temper with her for the first time. "You tell me. Whose child is it?"

Rong Wen: ...

She'd only gotten drunk at a family banquet a few days ago. The matron who had examined her said she was still a virgin.

Why were her two cousins claiming the child?

"Grandmother, the doctor said he made a mistake. I'm not pregnant."

The old madam gave a cold snort. "Your cousins have both claimed the child. Why are you still trying to deny it?"

Rong Wen: ...

Following her grandmother's gaze, she looked toward her second cousin, Gu Guannan. He was powerful and distinguished, possessed of great authority, and no one had ever doubted the truth of his words.

Yet in his hand was the undergarment she'd worn the day she got drunk. There was no way she could explain herself now.

Under Gu Guannan's piercing gaze, Rong Wen gritted her teeth and replied to the old madam, "Grandmother, the child I'm carrying is my second cousin's."

The old madam's expression softened, and she smiled. "I knew it. How could a doctor make such a mistake?"

Rong Wen: ...

She spent the next few days avoiding Gu Guannan, until one day he found her and said with a serious expression, "You've been avoiding me this whole time. How could you possibly be pregnant?"

Reading guide:

The male lead has been planning this for a long time / he falls hard / male rivalry / he chases his wife

Both leads are each other's first and only; happy ending; romance-focused.

Neither lead is perfect. The heroine is not pregnant, and there's a reason for everything described in the blurb.

Currently updating: "Breaking the Moon," a story of taking what you want by force. Please add it to your collection~

When Xie Zhiyao was young, a nobleman called her "ill-omened." For years afterward, everyone avoided her.

At a spring flower-viewing banquet, on a rain-slick mountain path, someone shoved her to the ground. Her dress was soaked, her shoes and socks were filthy, and her hair was disheveled.

She was in a truly wretched state. The man walking toward her was noble and dignified, his clothes luxurious. No one expected him to step forward of his own accord, hold an umbrella over her, and offer her his cool, jade-white hand to help her up.

He gently told her to be careful and tenderly applied medicine to her wounds. Amid the spring drizzle, everyone stared in disbelief. Xie Zhiyao's expression remained cool and distant; as she looked at the handsome features before her, all she felt was self-mockery.

The legitimate son of the Xie family was flawless and lofty, a perfect gentleman. Yet this very man was her nightmare.

He ruined her marriage prospects, forced her to submit, and imprisoned her in a corner of the world.

When spring's passion faded, he would hold her in his arms, and she would ask him again and again, "Didn't you say I was ill-omened?"

He knew she hated him. He bit her ear and whispered hoarsely, "Even if you die, you can only be mine."

*

Xie Huaiyan was born a favored son of heaven, the most cherished legitimate son of the Xie clan. No one could ever control him. But Xie Zhiyao had once deceived him, humiliated him, hurt him, and abandoned him.

Of course he would make her pay double, collecting every debt she owed him one by one.

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The head of the Xie family, Xie Xuan, is the foremost young master among the great clans. He is a man of impeccable character, disciplined and courteous. Everyone at court and in the streets praises his gentlemanly virtue, comparing him to fine jade.

Then his younger brother accidentally fell off a cliff. His mother was devastated and asked him to take his brother's place in the bridal chamber with the newly married Wen woman, so she could have a child to remember him by.

Such an act would violate all propriety, so Xie Xuan naturally refused.

Then, on a rainy morning, a woman stood beneath a crabapple tree with an umbrella. Her cheeks were as pink as peach blossoms, and faint tear tracks showed beneath her eyes. With bright eyes and pearly teeth, she called to him in a voice that plucked at his heart like the strings of a zither: "Elder Brother..."

In the eyes of Xie Xuan's personal attendant, the young woman who had just arrived at the manor was deeply manipulative. She had somehow seduced his master into sharing her bed, but that wasn't enough. Afterward, his master treated her coldly and clearly had no intention of sleeping with her again.

Yet she went to his master's quarters, blushing with embarrassment, and said, "Last time, I... I didn't get pregnant."

Fortunately, no matter how she acted, his master ignored her. He certainly wouldn't fall for her tricks again.

*

When Su Tannian was young, Xie Xuan saved her, and she secretly vowed that she would marry no one but him. But he was the legitimate son of the prestigious Xie family, a powerful man beyond her reach.

Marrying his deceased brother was the only way she could get close to him.

But fate played a cruel trick on her. By chance, she discovered that Xie Xuan wasn't the person she had been looking for at all.

Su Tannian could only win over the old madam and be adopted as her granddaughter, then use the Xie family's name to approach her true benefactor. Fortunately, she finally got her wish and became engaged to him before long.

But before the wedding, the courtyard where she lived caught fire. She died in the flames, leaving no remains.

In a secret chamber in the residence of the Xie family's legitimate heir, chains clinked. Xie Xuan wiped the tears from the corner of her eye with his icy fingertips and whispered hoarsely in her ear, "A Tan, you come whenever you want, then abandon me whenever you please. How dare you toy with me like this?"

Theme: Love is precious, so cherish it.