The Fake Young Master Became the Marshal's Child's Stepfather

[The blurb may be revised]

Wen Jin spent nineteen years as a dazzling young master in an interstellar elite family before discovering he was the fake heir.

One day, drunk and drugged, he spent a night of passion with a gorgeous man. When he woke up, he took all the money and ran.

Three months later, the Wen family packed him up like merchandise and sold him to the empire's youngest marshal, to be the stepfather to the man's unborn child.

At their first meeting, the handsome marshal, with blond hair and blue eyes, wore his uniform buttoned up to the collar and pushed a contract toward him.

Wen Jin stared at the man's face and froze.

Wasn't this the gorgeous man he'd slept with that night?!

Akaran didn't recognize him.

"This is a contract marriage. It will automatically end when the child turns seven."

"Do your part, but don't expect anything more."

Wen Jin stared at the pregnancy test results, with dates that matched perfectly with the night they'd slept together, and didn't know what to say.

...Well, he could accept being the stepfather to his own biological child.

*

The marshal discovered that the marriage partner he'd taken in was unusually docile.

When he complained about swelling during pregnancy, Wen Jin massaged him himself.

If he said it was noisy, the young man would immediately grab a pillow and offer to move to the guest room.

Even after they started living together, his own volatile mental energy seemed to calm down around him. He was gradually becoming unable to be without him.

One morning at breakfast, Akaran lowered his eyes as he cut into his medium-rare steak and said as if it were nothing,

"You can bring a companion to the military banquet tomorrow night."

Wen Jin pushed over the warmed goat's milk with a smile.

"Understood. I definitely won't show up and embarrass you."

Akaran: "...I'll cook dinner myself tonight. Not for you, I just feel like having something nice."

Wen Jin readily replied, "Then I'll go out with my friends today."

Akaran: "..."

Akaran gritted his teeth. "You dare not come home for dinner?"

Wen Jin: ?

*

The elite circles of the capital planet were abuzz with rumors that the marshal had married a useless nobody. Everyone was waiting to laugh at him.

Until the day the Zerg launched a violent attack.

Amid a swarm of insects blotting out the sky, Akaran knelt among the ruins, both arms wrapped tightly around his swollen belly.

A dazzling blade of light suddenly cleaved through the crimson sky.

A young man raced over on manifested mental energy, his frost-and-snow-like aura gently enveloping the marshal's battered body.

That immense mental energy was unmistakably of the imperial bloodline.

Everyone present: Huh? So you're not useless after all??

Bonus scene:

During their contract marriage, Wen Jin and Akaran got along well, and their feelings for each other gradually grew.

Until one day, Wen Jin was passing a room and heard Akaran tell a subordinate, "Offer fifty million for the head of the child's biological father."

Wen Jin: "..."

He silently swallowed.

How was he supposed to tell Akaran that the child's father was him?

Reader's guide:

1. The romance is about two hopeless romantics fumbling their way through love.

2. The marshal doesn't know at first that the child belongs to the top. He has the child because he needs an heir and wasn't interested in romance to begin with. Falling hard is their destiny.

3. The top loves the bottom dearly, and the bottom loves the top dearly. A puppy-like younger top heals his older bottom, and the older bottom spoils the puppy-like top. The bottom is a male mom.

Theme: Keep doing your best!