The General Is Carrying the Powerful Minister's Baby

Yan Suishuang, the renowned God of War general of Great Zhou, came from a poor family and started out as a nobody. They say he is hideously ugly, always hides his face behind a mask, and is a bloodthirsty menace whose very name can stop children from crying at night. He is a ruthless man. However, he is desperately short of money. Yan Suishuang has a whole camp of people to support. He has put all his salary and every reward he has received over the years toward their upkeep, but it is still nowhere near enough. While returning to the capital to report on his duties, he asked the emperor to increase military funding, only to be brutally rejected. Despondent, Yan Suishuang went to a restaurant and quietly drank a pot of wine. As he was getting drunk, he saw a handsome man calmly produce a banknote worth ten thousand taels of silver. With a deep smile, the man asked him: "Sleep with me once, and I'll pay you thirty thousand taels. Interested?" Yan Suishuang, so poor that all he had left was the empty shell of a general's residence: !!! Such a good deal exists?? He agreed on the spot. After one night together, Yan Suishuang looked at the man beside him and realized he was Xie Yu, a powerful official of Great Zhou, second only to the emperor and above everyone else, a ruthless, smiling fox with a black heart. And, according to rumor, Xie Yu was always trying to kill him. Yan Suishuang should have left, but he hesitated. There was no helping it. Xie Yu was paying far too much. It was impossible to turn him down. Fortunately, Yan Suishuang had hidden his face behind a mask when he returned to the capital, so Xie Yu did not recognize him. Using the alias "Shuangshuang," he attended court with Xie Yu in the morning as the cold and ruthless general, then stayed by his side during the day and at night as a delicate, pampered concubine, fooling everyone. Yan Suishuang thought that since running away would make it easy for them to track him down, he might as well play along and make a little money off Xie Yu while he was at it. But he barely made any money, while his belly grew bigger by the day. There was no need to ask whose child it was. Yan Suishuang: !!! Can I still run now?! As it happened, the border was in urgent need of reinforcements. He packed up and fled to the military camp that very night, breathing a long sigh of relief. The border was wonderful in every way, except that after several battles, the little one in his belly was still kicking away, completely unharmed. Yan Suishuang gritted his teeth: The Xie family's offspring are way too hardy. The baby: I wouldn't dare move. * Xie Yu had recently acquired a beautiful young companion. He fell for him at first sight, took him straight back to his residence, and pampered him day after day. Whenever he looked at that stunningly beautiful face, his heart, unmoved for years, raced wildly. The more he looked, the more satisfied he was, and he resolved that this would be the only one for him. Not long afterward, however, his pampered concubine suddenly disappeared. On the same day, the God of War general who had returned to the capital to report on his duties also left. Xie Yu flew into a rage and tracked down his concubine, only to find that every clue pointed to the taciturn general. Furious and frantic, he suspected that his little beauty had fallen for someone else. He cut off supplies to the front lines to force the general to hand over his concubine, and even went to the front himself. As he faced off with the general, enemy assassins launched a surprise attack. During the fight, General Yan's mask was knocked off, revealing the beautiful face beneath. Xie Yu stared at that familiar face, stunned. His beloved beauty and pampered concubine was actually one and the same person as the hideous, bloodthirsty General Yan Suishuang? Confidant: Should we keep the supplies cut off? Xie Yu: Cut them off my ass! [The Very Poor Beauty of a General & The Very Rich Black-Hearted Official, The Outcast] P.S.: 1. Synopsis screenshot archived on 22/8/24 2. Cover art used with the artist's permission: 384 Theme: Self-reliance and strength