A Bewitching Trap [Pregnant First, Love Later]

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Zhen Baozhu was a rebellious young heiress who'd spent her childhood and youth partying overseas. When she returned to China, she was pregnant with a child whose father was a mystery.

Finding a father for the child only takes a few steps:

First, put on impeccable makeup.

Second, get in your beloved little sports car.

Third, show up outside Li Zheng's company.

When asked if she had an appointment, Zhen Baozhu lightly touched her slightly rounded belly.

"Does a child need an appointment to see their father?"

When Li Zheng heard about it, he choked on his cigar and gave a scornful laugh.

"Miss Zhen, you're truly reckless and audacious."

"But I don't remember having a brief fling with you."

Standing in the jaws of danger, facing a business legend who'd built his empire from nothing, Zhen Baozhu smiled brightly, her brows arched with mischief.

"The child is just a bonus. I'm the real prize."

"Take my advice: stub out that cigar first, then marry me."

And so their marriage contract was sealed.

It would last one year, with neither interfering in the other's affairs.

Zhen Baozhu promised to give up control over important matters after the wedding and play the submissive wife.

Late one night, several days later.

Li Zheng held her increasingly rounded waist. Sweat dampened his temples as he struggled to keep himself in check, his voice hoarse.

"This is what you mean by playing the submissive wife? Sitting on top of me?"

The woman in his arms murmured in his ear,

"What, you're bold enough to imagine it, but not to do it?"

[He set the trap, then fell into love.]

Reader's guide:

1. The female lead is not a virgin; the male lead is a virgin.

2. The female lead's character leaves something to be desired, and the male lead's morals do too. (Imperfect characters.)

3. Romance-focused, with plenty of melodrama.

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The year Fang Kaiying returned to China, she ran into Zhen Shiming again.

They were both attending a high school classmate's wedding.

Rumor had it he already had two children. The spoiled brat of their youth had turned into a super dad, and she was about to get married. Their wild younger days had gradually faded into the past. They'd both grown up.

Her fiance led her over to offer him a toast. Dressed in a suit and tie, he returned the toast with a steady air, quietly listening as her fiance listed all her good qualities.

After the wedding, they passed each other in the restroom. She planned to pretend they barely knew each other, nod politely, and smile, but he grabbed her wrist in a tight grip.

He was drunk. His feverish breath brushed her flushed earlobe. "A Ying, does your fiance know you have two children?"

It was an experience neither good nor bad, and one that couldn't be put into words.

*

Zhen Shiming hated Fang Kaiying.

He hated that she had abandoned their two children and left him, too.

They hadn't seen each other in years. She'd become a leading researcher in China, and now she had a fiance.

But he remembered how she'd curled her thin shoulders, opened his car door on a stormy night, and pleaded in a quiet voice, "Could you be gentle with me later?"

When he was in his twenties, he made her say she wanted it, and she called him a sleazebag.

When he was in his thirties, he was still a sleazebag, but she said she wanted it.

Theme: Promote healthy attitudes toward love and marriage.