"Play the field with two people and sooner or later you'll sink. Play the field with ten thousand and you'll never run out of boats to sink."
Gu Xi, female, Cancer, 90, 62, 92. A regular feature on the A District University Town confession wall, she's been running boats for 22 years, the queen of the dating-game crowd, and the blue whale of her fish pond.
Among everyone in the university town, from 18 to 88, Gu Xi sees only two kinds of people: those she wants to hook, and those she doesn't.
Then, on a fine September 1, the day the new fish entered the pond, Gu Xi casually looked up and saw the fish of her dreams, Jiang Chengchuan, the one she'd been fishing for her entire 22-year career.
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Jiang Chengchuan had been pampered since childhood. Arrogant and domineering, he looked down on all love because of his parents' failed relationship.
Then he met Gu Xi.
Jiang Chengchuan locked her out 99 times. She changed the locks 99 times.
He was utterly convinced that Gu Xi loved him, even enough to die for him.
On the night of their university graduation, Jiang Chengchuan leaned against the doorframe and watched her profile as she cooked noodles, just like always. "My mom wants to meet you. This weekend."
She actually hesitated for three seconds.
Jiang Chengchuan's face darkened. For the 100th time, he locked her out.
He crouched by the door and waited all night, only to receive a breakup text from Gu Xi: Sorry, my family doesn't approve.
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A month after the breakup, the queen of the dating game was back on the prowl.
Beneath the multicolored neon lights, Gu Xi received a bizarre anonymous phone call:
"What would you do if your ex were pregnant with your child?"
Gu Xi didn't take it seriously. She raised her glass high and replied in a flippant, nasty tone, "Who cares? It's not like I'd have to take responsibility."
At that moment, in the booth behind and to her right, a pair of wolf-like eyes glared at her from beneath a deliberately lowered cap brim.
The test results in his hand were crumpled to pieces.
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Three years later.
The mercurial new best actor was throwing another fit on set.
The new assistant called Gu Xi in tears. "Xi Xi, what does he have going for him that made you stick around all this time?"
Gu Xi looked down at the eyes and brows of the child in her arms, so like her own, and replied meaningfully, "You might not believe this, but he can give birth himself."
Reader's Guide:
1. Content warnings: Not gender bender, not ABO. Romance-focused, cathartic in a certain sense. The female lead is not a virgin, the male lead is. Male pregnancy. The entertainment industry is involved, but not much. The male lead chases the female lead after the breakup. The female lead leaves her playboy ways behind, but can't change her nature. The male lead is a love-struck idiot to an almost unbelievable degree, and he's stubborn as hell. Male-lead fans, proceed with caution!
2. The pregnancy is needed for the plot. Any medical theories mentioned are complete nonsense, so please don't overthink them.
3. Pregnancy, devotion, tragic romance, and revenge against scumbags all center on the male lead. Yes, the scumbag getting punished is the female lead :)
4. Follow the author's page for the joy of watching things grow!
Theme: True love above all.
