The Sickly Beauty Recovered After Carrying a Baby and Staying

When Shen Qingci was born, he weighed eight jin and six liang. He was a sturdy, healthy baby with a round, tiger-like face. But as he grew up, he was out of breath after taking only a few steps. No illness could ever be found, yet he always looked as if he were about to die. He even earned the title of “Capital’s Number One Sickly Beauty.” His family once suspected that he was possessed. Even Shen Qingci couldn’t help wondering if he was so outstanding that he had angered Heaven, causing everything to go wrong for him. He had managed to pass the imperial examinations and become a top scorer despite his frail body. But once he entered officialdom, every time he tried to climb higher, he would end up bedridden for half a month at best, or unable to eat or drink at worst. In the end, he could only languish in the Imperial Academy, a comfortable office suited to a long retirement. His career had only just begun, and he could already see the end of the road. Then the heir to Prince Jing, Qin Ye, was drugged and barged into the Imperial Academy’s dormitory late at night. After the two struggled together... all of Shen Qingci’s questions were finally answered when he awakened to the plot of the original story. It turned out he was nothing more than a cannon-fodder character in a book, and the man lying beside him was one of the protagonists. According to the plot, after that reckless night with Qin Ye, Shen Qingci would be consumed by resentment and refuse to submit, no matter what. He would flee to a distant place alone while pregnant, and eventually die in childbirth, leaving behind a son. Qin Ye resented him for being so heartless. To soothe Qin Ye’s anger, Shen Qingci’s half-brother, Shen Shuyan, who had also passed the imperial examinations, stepped forward and married into Prince Jing’s household, claiming he would care for the child his elder brother had left behind. From then on, a story tagged “marriage first, love later” and “the substitute takes the original’s place” officially began. Even the child Shen Qingci gave birth to would ultimately recognize Shen Shuyan as his real father. So the sickly beauty, his failed career, all of it had been written into his fate by Heaven. Was he supposed to give up his life as a stepping stone for someone else’s romance? Hah. Why should he? The sickly beauty transformed into an unstable sickly beauty. Run away with the baby? ...Absolutely not. He would stay in the capital and make the protagonist shield him from disaster and change his fate. In the end, Shen Qingci said to Qin Ye, “If I die giving birth, you have to die with me too, all right?” Qin Ye didn’t hesitate for even a moment. “All right.” On the day Shen Qingci gave birth, thunder roared across the heavens, as if he were truly undergoing a tribulation... Content warning: The top is a full-fledged womanizer. If he likes someone, he claims them as his own. Forced love from the start, male pregnancy, male pregnancy, male pregnancy! A recommendation for my upcoming novel: After Transmigrating as the Female Lead’s Legitimate Younger Brother, I Was Exiled Description: Zhao Jinghuan had parents who worshipped foreign things and despised their own culture. After learning a little from foreign books, they completely forgot their roots. They left their newborn son with his grandparents and both ran off to their spiritual homeland. They were nowhere to be seen when it came to caring for him, but showed up when it was time to fight over the inheritance. Zhao Jinghuan was raised in turns by his paternal grandparents and maternal grandparents. All four doted on him and spoiled him into a pampered young man. When he turned twenty-six, he saw his paternal grandparents and then his maternal grandparents pass away one after another. He won the fight over the inheritance with his parents, but his heart was left empty. The poor young man drifted through life in a daze before dying in a car accident. His soul transmigrated into a world derived from a novel, where he became the legitimate younger brother of the illegitimate female lead in Through the World as a Concubine’s Daughter. Legitimate and illegitimate children were natural enemies, making him a textbook stepping stone. By then, Zhao “Stepping Stone” Jinghuan had been falsely accused of murder and was locked in a cell. If he was any later, he’d be beheaded and written out of the story! In his previous life, Zhao Jinghuan had practically no family left. But after transmigrating, he had an uncle, aunt, cousins, and a whole family who cared for him. ...Huh, suddenly he didn’t want to die anymore. Unfortunately, he was already too late. He held on in a dark cell for nine days, and although he escaped execution, he was still sentenced to exile and military service. Zhao Jinghuan thought the northern frontier was a nice place. The cattle and sheep were plump, and the land was vast. It was poor, sure, but full of potential. Besides, his uncle had asked an old friend in the northern frontier garrison to look after him. It was only two years of exile and military service. He could tough it out. But Zhao Jinghuan never expected that he would weather the northern frontier’s wind and snow and endure his military service, only to be unable to escape that bastard’s “bullying.” He was already being tormented until he cried every day, and that bastard still wouldn’t leave him alone! Theme: Love life, love living!