My Amnesiac Ex Suddenly Proposed to Me

[Coming soon: My Eldritch Ex-Husband Keeps Trying to Kill Our Baby. A melodramatic story about a sickly beauty who runs away while pregnant, only for his old flame to fail to recognize their child. If you're interested, please add it to your collection!]

A stoic, restrained, poor-but-handsome top x a spoiled, delicate heiress bottom

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The rich young master Ming Rao had been doted on since childhood, yet he suffered the greatest setback of his life over Yan Yuchuan, a poor kid trying to build a business.

After Ming Rao promised to support Yan Yuchuan's startup, the two became lovers under an agreement.

Yan Yuchuan gave Ming Rao everything he asked for and always went along with him, drawing him into the sweet whirlpool of love until he couldn't pull himself out.

But just as the business was taking off, Yan Yuchuan turned his back on him. He erased every memory connected to Ming Rao, packed his bags, and left without a trace.

A beautiful dream had become nothing but an illusion.

At last, Ming Rao understood: what he had thought was love had only been wishful thinking.

From beginning to end, Yan Yuchuan had only been playing a part.

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Five years later, Yan Yuchuan appeared at Ming Rao's front door in a sharp suit, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Yan Yuchuan: You're Ming Rao, right? I'm Yan Yuchuan. It's nice to meet you.

Ming Rao: Get lost!!!

Yan Yuchuan: Could we talk?

Ming Rao: ??? What is there to talk about? You don't even know me anymore.

Yan Yuchuan pulled a ring from his pocket. Then how about we get married and get to know each other?

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Five years earlier, in a roadside shop at a scenic attraction.

Yan Yuchuan, a penniless young man, secretly wrote down his wishes on a piece of paper and sealed it in a time capsule, not daring to tell anyone.

First: Secure seed funding... √

Second: Transform the business model... √

Third: Buy a top-tier luxury home in the city center... √

Tenth: Marry Ming Rao and give him happiness.

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Five years later, he opened the time capsule, his memories erased.

Every wish had come true.

Except the last one.

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Who is Ming Rao, he wondered?

1. Happy ending, one-on-one, both are each other's only partner, older top, alternating between present-day events and memories

2. Angsty push and pull. The top is insecure and conflicted, while the bottom is spoiled and domineering, but both love each other deeply

3. Content warning: The top had a very difficult childhood and carries childhood trauma

[Even when memories fade, love can still find its way home.]

Coming soon: My Eldritch Ex-Husband Keeps Trying to Kill Our Baby

Pei Yin is the most notorious Omega in the capital star of the Ao'an Empire.

He lies constantly, repays kindness with betrayal, and looked down on his arranged match, a disgraced prince who had fallen out of favor. He fled on their wedding night, dragging his entire family down with him.

The good news: troublemakers don't live forever. He had been sickly since childhood, and doctors said he wouldn't live past twenty-five.

The bad news: he was still a troublemaker to the bitter end, sneaking into a fortress to steal military secrets.

The one who caught him red-handed was the Fourth Prince Elmo, the very man he had once treated like dirt, now Crown Prince.

Just as Elmo was about to draw his gun, a bundle of soft, sticky tentacles wrapped around his wrist and called him Daddy in a baby voice.

Elmo froze. The next second, he saw Pei Yin curl his lips into a bewitching smile.

"You'll have to excuse him, Your Highness. His father died when he was little, so he calls everyone Daddy."

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That runaway wedding had made Elmo the laughingstock of the entire empire.

Years later, when they met again, that liar had given birth to a strange child of unknown parentage. Shamelessly, he begged Elmo for help, claiming the child had been corrupted and mutated by an eldritch god at birth, and only the purification equipment in the fortress could restore his human form.

"Want to save the child?" Elmo cut in coldly. "Then trade yourself for him."

He swore to settle every old score, with interest.

Late at night in the bedchamber, the frail Omega curled up on the bed. He bit his pale lip until it bled, leaving a bewitching red mark, yet still spoke with disdain.

"Your Highness's skills... are nowhere near as good as his."

Elmo's expression darkened on the spot. He could hardly wait to dig up that bastard's grave.

Only when the truth was revealed piece by piece did Elmo realize he had been manipulated once again.

The child hadn't been corrupted by some eldritch god. He was the illegitimate offspring of Pei Yin and the god!

Faced with Elmo's red-faced accusations, the liar tossed out a mocking reply.

"Didn't I tell you already? Your Highness, you're just so easy to fool."

In his fury, Elmo hauled Pei Yin before a military tribunal.

But no matter how brutally he was tortured and interrogated, Pei Yin refused to reveal the eldritch god's identity. He died with an unrepentant smile still on his face.

With the villain dead, the story should have ended there.

Until one night, Elmo's spine suddenly convulsed with excruciating pain, and a row of icy tentacles burst out of it.

They were unmistakably a larger version of the monster's.

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From their first meeting as boys, to the runaway wedding, to his final days, Pei Yin had deceived him countless times.

The two most artful lies were ones Elmo never saw through, even after Pei Yin died.

One was that he didn't know who the child's father was.

The other was that he had never loved Elmo.

[Bonus Scene]

When Elmo first became the new eldritch god, he struggled to accept his strange appearance.

Until the other man's warm fingertips caressed each tentacle, and he leaned close to Elmo's ear to whisper tenderly,

"You promised to share the rain and dew equally."

"Today... it's this one's turn."

His heart suddenly pounded like a drum.

Then he thought that perhaps being an eldritch god wasn't so bad after all.

Reading Guide:

1. A carefree, flirtatious, sickly beauty bottom x a loyal dog-like top who is a fake prince and a real eldritch god

2. One-on-one, both are each other's only partner, happy ending. They begin with bitter hatred and tangled feelings, then later the top fakes his death and pursues his wife

Theme: Life is full of possibilities. Only through hard work can we realize our dreams