I Ran Off Pregnant After Dumping the Future Emperor

The Great Sheng King is a typical power fantasy about an overpowered hero rising from adversity. As a boy, the male lead Qin Guanbei suffered terribly and was bullied until his temperament became twisted. As an adult, he overthrew a dying dynasty and established a new regime, pulverizing everyone who had ever wronged him to dust.

Oh, does that include me? Ninth Prince Sui Xingyun looked at the supposed male lead, currently beneath his foot: the son of a rebel general, the lowest-ranking servant in the palace. A sudden chill ran down his back.

There's no way I'm going to suck up to him. The emperor sent the male lead to serve him precisely so he could bully him. Although he wasn't particularly interested in picking on people, he still had to keep up appearances.

But somehow, his bullying always felt strange. He'd plant his bare foot on the male lead's chest. The male lead's breathing would grow ragged with humiliation, the veins in his neck swelling as he restrained himself, but his eyes looked as though he wanted to devour him.

He'd order the male lead to do rough chores and wash his clothes, but somehow the undergarments he wore close to his skin kept mysteriously disappearing.

On cold winter nights, he'd make the male lead warm his bed in the freezing cold. Once it was warm, he'd send him away. For some reason, when bedtime came, the male lead was even more eager to warm it than he was.

And so on and so forth. He kept bullying the male lead like this until the year he came of age and left the palace. After an accident one night when they were drunk, he was thoroughly ravaged, and two months later, his belly had grown big.

This is bad. I was forced to spend a night with my enemy, and now I'm pregnant. The male lead will be furious and kill me, won't he?

Just as he was granted a fief and left the palace, Sui Xingyun erased the male lead's name from the list of attendants and made a run for it.

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Five years later, Sui Xingyun was still an unremarkable prince among the many princes. The former lowly son of a traitor had become a renowned general, acclaimed for his military achievements, and held a position of power and glory.

The emperor's sixtieth birthday brought the princes to the capital, where the ministers gathered to offer their congratulations. After five years of fighting on the border, the male lead rode into the capital on a tall horse. The first thing he did upon his return was...

Ask for Prince Guang'an's hand in marriage.

Sui Xingyun, lowering his eyes and bowing his head as he hid among the ministers, desperately trying not to be noticed lest he be punished: ?

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Outsiders sighed, thinking the Ninth Prince was truly doomed this time.

They didn't know that, while snowflakes fell in the freezing winter, the heated floor inside made the room warm and comfortable. A beautiful, delicate, cool-looking beauty, wrapped in a fox-fur cloak, lay listlessly in someone's arms.

Beneath the heavy fur cloak, his belly was unmistakably swollen.

Qin Guanbei gently rubbed his aching lower back during the pregnancy and kissed his earlobe. "Are you going to run away again?"

TIPS / Content Warnings:

1. A villainous (not really) sickly, beautiful prince as the love interest x a rebellious male lead who initially wants to be emperor but later becomes completely devoted to romance. Both are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one, happy ending. The love interest isn't a bad person. He never really bullied the protagonist, though he thought he did. In reality, the protagonist was already completely captivated by him.

2. The love interest is male but can bear children. There is no scientific basis for this, and the delivery is difficult. It's sweet, not angsty, though there will be a second child, so there'll be another fairly long pregnancy and regular sex... well...

Theme: Stay steadfast and grow together.