After Taking Over, I Got a Wife

Novel blurb

Just as the title says, I took in a man who was pregnant with a child.

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This is a female-dominant country. Fang Qian has only one mission: help the prince, who is confined in the Cold Palace, ascend the throne.

It's a difficult task.

In this country, men have less status and power than women. On one side is the eldest princess, who enjoys popular support, plots deeply, and always wears a smile. On the other is the second princess, who commands the Tiger Tally and is violent and difficult to deal with.

Her mission target, a prince confined to the Cold Palace with no power or influence, has no chance of winning.

Fang Qian can only take her time and plan carefully.

She is all about her career, but after one mission, things suddenly veer off course.

She did feel some attraction to Liu Xiang's looks. She liked him, but knew the two of them could never be together. She couldn't exactly steal someone else's husband.

What truly moved her to pity was seeing him abused. His wife didn't love him, his concubines bullied him, and he could only weep in silence, so pitiful and helpless.

Worse, he was pregnant and forced to kneel on the cold ground as he was reprimanded and coerced.

She thought, If you ask, I'll save you.

This time, and for the last time.

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The male lead's perspective:

It all started when trouble broke out at the prince's manor. He met a masked "thief."

Every time he met her, he seemed to be in a wretched state. But she seemed different from the people he'd met before.

She clearly said she wanted to take me away from this prison of a manor, but how could a man like me ever leave?

I only cast aside my shame for the sake of my child.

I could never give up the baby in my womb, so I begged her:

Please, save me.

You're the only lifeline I can grasp.

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Content warnings

1. Fang Qian x Liu Xiang (one-on-one romance)

2. Male pregnancy; neither lead is a virgin.

3. Includes a BL side couple.

4. The female lead transmigrates. There is a light System and a golden finger.

5. She helps a man ascend the throne. First, the original male lead of the world, the mission target, ascends the throne with the original female lead's help, making him an underdog who rises to success, though that's debatable. Second, the reason helping a man ascend the throne is part of the setup is to make the mission more difficult.

6. Creative freedom. The author and readers are here to please themselves, so don't force yourself to read.

7. Hope you enjoy the story, dear readers. Wishing you good health, happiness, and great fortune!

8. Eight points for the blurb, so we can all prosper!

- Completed works in my collection -

"The Prince Consort Dumped Her Little Shadow Guard"

One drunken night changed their relationship.

But the young prince, Gu Ru, didn't understand what had happened.

The shadow guard didn't want to tell her. He thought the prince didn't care, so he composed himself and continued to follow her.

The shadow guard was called Lian Sheng, and the imperial family had given him the surname Gu.

He had originally been the shadow guard of the Third Prince, Gu Xunke. Everyone in the imperial capital knew that the young prince and the Third Prince were at odds, yet Gu Xunke secretly gave him to Gu Ru.

But he felt there had to be more to it, that he had been given some task to carry out. Yet three years passed, and Gu Xunke seemed to have forgotten he even existed. He never once summoned him back.

Until...

Gu Ru sensed something was wrong. When she learned the truth, she flew into a rage, personally threw him in prison, and had him brutally tortured until he was unrecognizable. Then Gu Xunke came and took him away.

Two months later, Gu Ru saw Gu Liansheng again. Her Third Imperial Sister brought him before her. "Gu Ru, take him back and treat him better. He's already carrying your child, after all."

Gu Ru: "..."

Gu Ru: "!!!"

She stared in disbelief. "Imperial Sister, even if we're rivals, you wouldn't go so far as to foist a child on me, would you?"

"It's true. He's two months pregnant." Gu Xunke looked at Gu Ru with utmost seriousness. "It's yours."

Gu Ru's expression darkened. She grabbed Gu Liansheng and turned to leave. "Fine. Mine."

After that, the child was lost, and Gu Liansheng's heart died.

The prince didn't care about him at all. She wouldn't even spare their child. One night, he silently left the manor.

When Gu Xunke found out, she joined the emperor in berating Gu Ru.

The young prince was unhappy and refused to admit fault. "It's just a shadow guard getting pregnant. Third Imperial Sister, are you this angry because it's yours?"

Gu Xunke glared at her. "You..."

"The child is yours, Gu Ru. You did this yourself." When Gu Xunke showed her the evidence, Gu Ru went completely still.

The child was mine... He was mine...

But what had she done?

Theme: Those who truly care about you will never reject you because of your past.