A Kissing Accident

[Complete. The next story will be Rainy Day]

Bright, proud lawyer x gentle, cunning professor

Pregnancy before love | Size difference | From strangers to sharing a bed

Blurb:

For twenty-six years, Cen Li followed the rules. The most outrageous thing she'd ever done was choose the arts track in high school against everyone's objections.

Then the good girl got married because she was pregnant, and the child wasn't her boyfriend's. Everyone was floored.

On the night her ex left the country, Cen Li went to a party with her best friend.

During a game where the lights were turned off for thirty seconds, she took the initiative and kissed a man at the next table.

Then came abs, fine wine, and a night of passion.

A month later, two red lines appeared on the pregnancy test.

Cen Li boldly decided to keep the baby and leave the father out of it. The baby's dad had such good genes, and since they were strangers, nobody would be around to fight her for custody. It was a great deal!

She just needed a patsy to pretend to be the baby's father and help her get past her parents.

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Tan Yanshu returned to China to teach two years ago. His research hadn't advanced a single step, but somehow he'd completed most of his life plan.

He got married, moved in with someone, and fell in love with an overgrown child named Cen Li.

Tan Yanshu agreed to fake a marriage with Cen Li to deal with her parents, while Cen Li helped him out of his research rut. They each had something to gain.

He'd assumed Cen Li was deeply in love with her ex. She was broken up with him but still having his baby. What an idiot.

But then he actually imagined becoming Little Grape's stepfather. What an even bigger idiot.

Until one rainy night, Cen Li came home late, and a ring box fell from her pocket. Tan Yanshu stayed up all night. The next day, he packed his bags.

"I heard Wei Yuzhe is back?"

"Yeah."

"Then let's hurry up and get divorced, so you can be a family of three."

Cen Li smiled. "You might not believe this, but Wei Yuzhe and I... were fake lovers and real friends. Even if he stripped naked in front of me, I wouldn't feel a thing."

By contrast, every day she faced Tan Yanshu, she wanted to strip him bare with her eyes.

If Little Grape wasn't Wei Yuzhe's daughter, then the only possibility was...

Tan Yanshu remembered the party at Wansong Group that night, Cen Li's soft lips and hurried breathing. The timing seemed to fit, too.

A daring guess sprang to mind...

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A young new associate professor has joined the biology department at Hujiang University. He's handsome and dresses well, and his lectures are always packed, but he's cold and hard to approach.

Female students from other departments flock to get his attention, hoping to win this aloof beauty over. Every one of them fails.

Professor Tan always wears a plain ring on his index finger, so some people suspect he's a confirmed bachelor.

Then one spring afternoon, Professor Tan is still surrounded by students asking questions after class, while a woman waiting outside keeps peeking in.

Afraid Cen Li will get impatient, Tan Yanshu raises a hand to signal, "Time out."

"Let's leave it here for today. Sorry, my wife is waiting for me."

Everyone is astonished to discover that the usually frosty Professor Tan can look at someone with such tenderness.

The woman he's looking at has a rounded belly. She casually takes his arm and smiles. "Professor Tan, you sure are popular. But don't forget..."

Tan Yanshu raises his hand to show off his wedding ring, smiling dotingly.

"I haven't forgotten. I even wear it when I'm doing experiments."

P.S. The child is the male lead's! The title, blurb, and central premise were settled on 2024.2.24. The blurb was revised on 2025.5.3, changing some details about the male lead, but not the premise. Screenshots have been saved as proof. Don't steal it.

Both leads have never been with anyone else, happy ending. See the author's note in Chapter 1 for specific content warnings.

Next story: Hong Kong Nights

Part One: Top-tier male actor x female university student (six-year age gap)

Part Two: Heir to a top-tier Hong Kong family x grassroots actress who becomes an award-winning star

Six years ago, at the Hong Kong Film Awards, Lu Huaisheng announced his retirement while holding the Best Actor trophy, then took over the family business. He turned out to be even more ruthless than he'd been on screen.

After eight years in the industry, Jiang Wei has gone from an actress no one had heard of to a triple-crown award-winning star. With no connections and no luck, she relied on her own talent to overturn the audience's stereotypes, winning both box-office success and critical acclaim.

Years after their breakup, no one talks about the old romance between Jiang Wei and Lu Huaisheng anymore.

After all, both parties have long since found new partners.

Then one winter evening, the trending topic system crashed, and reports flooded every major media outlet.

Lu Huaisheng had publicly admitted on a talk show, "I have a son. He's four years old."

His fiancee, Ye Man, an heiress to a real-estate fortune, promptly unfollowed Lu Huaisheng and announced their breakup unilaterally.

Netizens dug into the story: Lu Huaisheng's child wasn't born to his official girlfriend, Ye Man.

So who was this mysterious woman who'd gained status through her child?

The hashtag [Jiang Wei, Lu Huaisheng's ex-girlfriend] quickly shot to the top of the trending list.

Before long, a highly liked comment appeared underneath: [Let's rule her out first. Jiang Wei would rather the Lu family never have any descendants. It couldn't possibly be her.]

Amid a storm of public opinion, Jiang Wei arrived in Hong Kong City in the middle of the night. The magnificent Lu family estate was brightly lit, and Lu Huaisheng was playing with building blocks alongside A Yan.

Jiang Wei had visited this estate plenty of times over the past four years. Back then, she always wore a mask and looked around nervously, afraid someone might expose their secret.

Now there was no need for anyone else to tell. Lu Huaisheng had revealed it himself, which meant he no longer feared anything.

Jiang Wei leaned against Lu Huaisheng and kissed his Adam's apple, deliberately teasing him. "You're making quite a scene. If the Lu Group's stock price drops tomorrow morning, you'll be in terrible trouble."

"If the Lu family's sky falls, let it fall. As long as the sky over our home comes back, that's all that matters."

"You're an amazing actress, Best Actress Jiang. Five years ago, you fooled me, and you fooled hundreds of millions of netizens, too."

"Jiang Wei, you can't come over and only sweet-talk the kid every time. The kid's dad needs some attention, too."

"I heard your next scene has a five-second intimate moment with a male actor. Why don't you talk to the director and let me stand in for Liang Shubai?"

[The Best Actor's back and he's doing stand-in work for a rookie? The Lu Group must be going under if he's taking this kind of job.]

[He just doesn't want his wife filming an intimate scene with someone else. Director, you really spoil him.]

"The mist has cleared, and now everyone knows I love you."

Love is most captivating just before it begins, and he's most captivated by Jiang Wei when he's in love with her.

#A story where the woman leaves while pregnant, then comes back and leaves the baby behind.

#The so-called official girlfriend is the male lead's contract girlfriend, who helps him deal with his family. They're just friends.

#The so-called new love interest is a tragic second male lead. The heroine doesn't love him, so we can all love him instead.

Premise: Fate is a wonderful mystery.