After the General Became a Father Overnight

# A cute, innocent little airhead and a mighty, formidable general

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On the battlefield, blades have no eyes. A comrade-in-arms was gravely wounded while protecting Zhao Liuxing. With his dying breath, he asked Zhao Liuxing to look after his pregnant wife and younger sister at home.

Zhao Liuxing naturally agreed,

and sent his remains and the compensation silver back to their hometown.

Who would have thought that just half a month after Zhao Liuxing returned to the capital, he would run into Liu Shanyin, the younger sister of his fallen comrade, showing up at his door with a child in her arms? As it happened, she arrived just as the domineering Princess Fuyang, whom he did not want to marry, was pressuring him to wed her.

With all these people brought together, the air was thick with tension.

The chaotic scene was enough to make anyone anxious.

In desperation, Zhao Liuxing pointed at Liu Shanyin, whom he had never met before, and said, "As the princess can see, I already have a wife and child, and I have long since sworn to love her faithfully for the rest of my life. I absolutely cannot marry the princess."

Liu Shanyin was quick to play along. She immediately rushed to Zhao Liuxing's side and cried, "The child's father! I've finally found you. The baby's still so little. How can you be so heartless and abandon us?"

And so the forced marriage was put to rest.

But because of it, Zhao Liuxing's household gained two new residents, one big and one small, and he inexplicably found himself living a cozy family life with a wife and child.

Well, the orphaned niece and her widowed aunt were both pitiful.

Their father and brother had died because of him, after all. Zhao Liuxing decided to let them stay for the time being and work out the rest later.

But how were two unmarried people who could not even figure out the ways between men and women supposed to care for a little baby? On the very first night, the baby's cries were loud enough to shake the heavens. Zhao Liuxing woke up on the floor mat, clutching his head. "Why is he crying in the middle of the night?"

Holding the baby on the bed, Liu Shanyin answered, "He's hungry."

Zhao Liuxing said, "Then feed him."

But Liu Shanyin anxiously replied, "I, I, I want to feed him too. But I don't have any milk!"

Silence fell as soon as the words left her mouth.

The temporary mother blushed bright red. The temporary father climbed out of bed.

Then he opened the door and left. For the first time in his life, the legendary General Ningyuan of Luoyang wandered around the city all night with dark circles under his eyes, looking for a wet nurse...

A note for readers:

The setting is fictional. Both leads are virgins, and the ending is happy.

A comrade-in-arms means a fellow soldier.

Theme: Meeting is fate's arrival; forgetting one another is fate's end.