I Lost My Memory and Got Pregnant with My Archrival's Baby

[Thanks to the lovely readers supporting the official version] [The Perks of Being the Younger One, ongoing, feel free to add it to your reading list] Blurb: Wen Chaoluo has a little-known hobby: writing stories. When he meets someone he dislikes, he assigns them a role full of suffering and hardship, putting them through all kinds of ordeals in his stories. Recently, to get back at his nemesis, he wrote him into a story as the husband of a spoiled, demanding man. The man makes trouble every day and forces his husband to wait on him hand and foot, leaving him utterly miserable. Unexpectedly, just after Wen Chaoluo had written the opening, an earthquake struck. He hit his head and, upon waking, believed he was the spoiled character in his own story... When his nemesis came to check on his injuries, Wen Chaoluo stretched out his long legs. "My leg hurts. Carry me." Qi Xuan: ??? From the gong's perspective: One of the great pleasures in Qi Xuan's life was going head-to-head with Wen Chaoluo. Who could have guessed that one day Wen Chaoluo would suddenly change his usual antagonistic attitude and start acting cute with him? Qi Xuan kept his composure and decided to play along. He wanted to see what Wen Chaoluo was really up to. Wen Chaoluo had an endless array of demands. One moment he wanted Qi Xuan to feed him medicine, the next he wanted him to help him bathe. At night, Qi Xuan even had to pat him to sleep, and the touch couldn't be too light or too heavy. If anything displeased him, he would throw a tantrum. Then one night, Wen Chaoluo handed him a box of ointment and ordered imperiously, "Be gentle." "Gentle with what?" Qi Xuan asked, bewildered. "Our wedding night." Wen Chaoluo's ears turned red. Qi Xuan stared at the handsome face before him, unable to bring himself to refuse... Later, Wen Chaoluo recovered his memories and began avoiding Qi Xuan. Convinced he had been used and then discarded, Qi Xuan angrily went to confront him, only to discover that Wen Chaoluo's belly seemed to be a little bigger than before... Character dynamic: spoiled kitty shou x devoted, dog-like gong Reading notes: monogamous pairing, happy ending, gong dotes on shou, original demon-transformation setting, childbirth [Blurb archived on 2023.11.11] [Coming soon: Can You Hold Me? Feel free to add it to your reading list] Character dynamic: silly beauty shou x scheming, devoted gong When Yun Nian was seven, he was punished because of his mother and locked away in a dilapidated palace. There he suffered from hunger and cold and nearly lost his life. Half asleep and half awake, he dreamed that someone held him. That person's embrace was so comfortable, warmer than the midday sun. When he woke, Yun Nian felt a deep sense of loss. He wanted so badly for that person to hold him again. Later, he found that person: his crown prince brother. Faced with the crown prince, who had been raised in luxury, Yun Nian did not dare ask to be held. He only hid in a corner and timidly called him Second Brother. The crown prince looked at him coldly for a while, then casually gave him a box of pastries. After that day, Yun Nian often hid along the crown prince's usual route. But whenever he mustered the courage to ask for a hug, the other's cold expression frightened him into backing down. He never got his hug, but he did get to eat plenty of pastries. Until one day, Yun Nian's mother was sentenced to death, and he was proven to be a "bastard." Before dying, however, his mother placed a curse, declaring that Yun Nian and the crown prince shared the same fate: if Yun Nian were executed, the crown prince would die too. The emperor feared the words of the "demon consort" and spared Yun Nian's life. But he could not stomach Yun Nian's status as a "bastard," and ultimately decided to make him the lowliest kind of palace servant. Yun Nian took the medicine and lay on a small bed in the palace servants' quarters. He felt so cold all over, as if he had fallen into an icy pit. He could not help thinking of that warm embrace and murmured, "Second Brother, can you hold me?" Before the words had even left his mouth, he fell into someone's arms. Everyone knew the noble crown prince had been cursed by the "demon consort" to share his fate with that "bastard." The crown prince must have hated the mother and son so much that he had gone to the emperor to ask for the boy, keeping the "bastard" in the Eastern Palace to torment him day after day. Ten years later, the emperor died and the crown prince ascended the throne. Everyone assumed the "bastard" had long since been tortured beyond recognition. Yet at the coronation ceremony, they saw him standing beside the crown prince, dressed in white like fresh snow, with an otherworldly air, like an immortal who had stepped out of a painting. The first thing the new emperor did after ascending the throne was free Yun Nian from his servant status and appoint him Imperial Preceptor. He declared, "Since Yun Nian shares my fate, he should share this flourishing age with me." The world did not know how tender the cold and ruthless new emperor they saw in public could be behind closed doors... Little scene: Even after becoming Imperial Preceptor, Yun Nian never outgrew his childhood habit of wanting someone to hold him at night. Lately, though, he had been troubled: the hugs he wanted and the ones a certain someone gave him were never quite the same. Yun Nian: Can you just hold me and not do anything else? Xiao Chengluo: Sure! A moment later, Yun Nian, his voice breaking with tears: Why did you lie to me? Xiao Chengluo: I'm bad, Yun Nian is good. Let me hold you again, all right? Yun Nian: (pouty and aggrieved.jpg) Reading notes: childhood friends, romance begins in adulthood, no blood relation, the shou is not castrated Theme: There are no eternal enemies