The Male Lead Ran Off With the Baby

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You might not believe this, but I, Guan Shanyue, transmigrated into an angsty romance novel.

A stand-in for the white moonlight, running away while pregnant, and the husband chasing his wife to the crematorium...

All those old-school, melodramatic tropes are in this book.

An electrified System is chasing me, insisting that I follow the plot to the end.

In other words:

I, a hardworking office drone, have embarked on the melodramatic, one-way road to becoming the heroine of an angsty romance.

I was utterly disheartened, but where there's a will, there's a way.

So...

The male lead looks down on me and humiliates me with money.

I take it, then use a bit of his connections to make some investments.

A vicious male supporting character humiliates me mercilessly: "You're just a canary who can't live without a man."

I cry with the grace of a pear blossom in the rain. I weep bitterly. Then I quietly hang up on my assistant. "How many times do I have to tell you? Don't call me about projects worth less than ten million! I'm busy."

After a drunken night together, the white moonlight is about to return home.

The run-away-while-pregnant plot is about to begin.

I look at the male lead lying on the bed,

mercifully leave him a two-hundred-yuan tip, then write a farewell letter.

Thinking about the look on his face when he wakes up, I can't stop laughing on the plane.

But I wasn't pregnant.

Well, whoops. I wait in despair for the System to electrocute me.

Huh? Nothing happens.

I smack my lips. From then on, I live a happy, solitary life as a rich woman.

Until...

At a banquet, a little girl wraps her arms around my leg and wails, "Mommy!"

I look at her face, exactly like mine, and am so shocked my pupils quake. "I'm not your mom. Don't call me that."

The male lead rushes up behind me and scoops her into his arms, acting as if he doesn't know me. "She's little. She got the wrong person."

Oh, right. Her mother is probably the white moonlight who looks exactly like me.

After the banquet, I return, at peace, to my huge mansion.

The male lead is waiting for me with the child in his arms. He corners me and demands, "After abandoning me all these years, you finally decided to show your face?"

I look at the sleeping child in his arms.

You have a kid, and that's what you say?

The male lead follows my gaze and sneers. "The child is yours."

Me: ?????

#Yes, We Have a Child#

#Turns Out Someone Else Ran Away While Pregnant#

#About How I Suddenly Have a Kid#

Note:

The male and female leads are strictly monogamous, and both are sexually inexperienced.

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Xue Mingwei was the most obedient and unassuming shadow in the palace.

Her elder sister married the Crown Prince. To advance his own interests, their father sent Xue Mingwei into the palace as her dowry, where she became a consort.

When her sister died, she became a high-ranking consort in the emperor's harem, there to fill a vacant spot.

She was meant to live out her days in the depths of the palace.

Until one day, at a palace banquet, an assassin's blade flashed, and the emperor instinctively shoved her in front of him.

As the blade sank into her chest, she saw Zheng Yanqing, the top scorer in the imperial examinations and the pride of the empire's noble families, push through the crowd toward her. Her blood spattered the hem of his official robe like red plum blossoms.

"Your Highness..." His fingers were cool, trembling even more than those of the woman who was about to die.

Yet through the pain, she smiled in a daze. How wonderful. At last, she could be herself in his eyes, openly and without shame.

That night, she burned with a fever that wouldn't break. He risked death to sneak into the forbidden palace and give her a life-saving pill he'd paid a fortune to obtain.

His fingertips brushed her lips. He shuddered and met Xue Mingwei's eyes.

Their gazes locked. Xue Mingwei was barely breathing, but her eyes shone brilliantly. "Lord Zheng, sneaking into the harem is a capital offense."

He chuckled softly. "Then why, Your Highness... don't you push me away?"

The most rebellious thing Zheng Yanqing ever did was fall in love with the emperor's wife.

He watched her grow from a timid girl into a high-ranking consort who led the palace women.

He watched her argue her case against him in court.

He watched her rub her swollen knees after kneeling, yet still hold her back straight.

He couldn't say when he had fallen so deeply in love.

But on the day she knelt before the throne and requested a divorce, he stood among the assembled officials, nearly crushing his fingers in his fists.

The emperor flew into a rage and made her kneel for an hour, but finally granted her request.

As she rose unsteadily, he was the first to step forward and take her cold hand.

The new emperor sneered from the steps. "Minister Zheng, do you know what you're doing?"

He lowered his eyes. "I am unable to control my feelings, Your Majesty."

A little scene:

Later, deep in the night, Zheng Yanqing knocked on the door of her residence. Under the pretext of discussing political affairs, he pressed her against a wall covered in books.

His fingers caressed her lips, his expression unreadable. "At court today, Your Highness took great pleasure in rejecting my memorial, didn't you?"

She bent away, but the corner of her lips inadvertently brushed his ear. She chuckled. "And yesterday, Lord Zheng, didn't you pretend not to know me on the palace road?"

Content warnings:

1. An alternate world, with a female emperor and women officials permitted to attend court.

2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. The heroine's former husband only loves mature beauties.

Theme: When love is meant to be, the right people will meet again.