After I Accidentally Asked My Ex to Pick Up the Kids

Second chance at love / reunited after a long separation

Bank assistant x rising investment tycoon

Five years after their breakup, Shen Tingyao never expected to have anything to do with Wen Yuxiao again, much less add him back on WeChat.

She's a low-level bank employee; he's an investment mogul from the capital. Their business partner specifically requested that she handle the deal.

Kindergarten lets out at five. With no way to get away from work, Shen Tingyao had to message her neighbor across the hall and ask him to pick up her daughter, Manman. They'd met a few times, and he seemed like a decent person.

[Hey handsome, sorry to bother you again, but could you pick up my kid today? I'll make you cherry rolls as a thank-you!]

Shen Tingyao sent the message and went straight back to work. She didn't see the reply from across the table, and had no idea she'd sent it to Wen Yuxiao by mistake. His name and profile picture were almost identical to her neighbor's.

The man across the negotiating table looked grim, his eyes cold enough to kill, while Shen Tingyao's phone kept buzzing nonstop.

W: [Shen Tingyao, am I a dog you can summon whenever you want and kick away whenever you don't?

W: [And now you want me to pick up your kid? How dare you?]

W: [Answer me!]

Two minutes later

W: [?]

W: [Which kindergarten?]

Shen Tingyao: ?! I'm doomed. I sent that to the wrong person.

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Wen Yuxiao, head of the Wen family of the capital, was born a favored son of heaven, standing high above the clouds. He came from an exceptional family and was refined and proud. The only person who ever brought him down was Shen Tingyao. He pursued her for two years in college before she finally agreed to date him, only for her to abruptly break up with him just before graduation. She even left him with the words, "I was only with you for your money," before vanishing without a trace. The once lofty man experienced the feeling of losing control for the first time, his pride shattered to pieces.

On a freezing winter night, snowflakes clinging to him, Wen Yuxiao bent down and held Shen Tingyao's hand, begging her not to leave. "Tingyao, I give in. I'm pathetic, so pathetic that I've waited five years for you and still want to be the stepfather to your child with another man."

[Reader's guide]

The child isn't the heroine's.

They reunite at the beginning, with college flashbacks woven in.

Two parts angst, eight parts sweetness.

Both leads are each other's first love and have only been with each other.

The male lead hasn't dated anyone since; the female lead has been on blind dates.

The heroine had her reasons for breaking up.

Screenshot taken on May 8, 2026.

Theme: Live sincerely and love sincerely