Even the King Loves Listening to the Radio

Cool, gentle, well-behaved bunny x a king whose heart can also be thrown into chaos

Marriage first, love later + mutual pining [Chapter comments open]

Xu Yi had been married to Ji Siyan for three years, and still there was no news of a baby. Their friends all knew there was no love between them.

Three years ago, Xu Yi's parents had suddenly died. Ji Xunhuo, who had been engaged to Xu Yi since childhood, was exposed as having a string of girlfriends. For the sake of the two families' relationship, Ji Siyan, the eldest son of the Ji family, sacrificed himself and married Xu Yi.

So outsiders thought it was perfectly normal that Xu Yi still hadn't had a child.

And it wasn't just outsiders who thought so.

Xu Yi did, too.

For all three years, they had used protection every time they made love, so there was no way they could have a child.

Xu Yi knew her place. Ji Siyan would never want to have a child with her.

And she would never use a child to tie Ji Siyan down. She knew deep in her bones that his heart belonged to someone else, his one true love.

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Ji Siyan had been married to Xu Yi for three years. His elders constantly urged him to have a child with her. Over the past three years, they had even arranged for a traditional Chinese doctor to prescribe him herbal medicine to regulate his health, all in the hope of holding the next generation in their arms.

Every time the medicine was brought to him, Ji Siyan would pour it out in front of Xu Yi and reassure her that he wouldn't let her get pregnant.

He did this because he knew perfectly well that Xu Yi didn't love him. He wouldn't force her to have a child for the sake of the Ji family or his own pride. He wanted to leave a door open for her, one she could walk through whenever she wished to leave the marriage and go to the person she truly loved.

But one day, their unspoken understanding was broken.

Xu Yi stared at the pregnancy test result. She was pregnant. Her lips parted, and she was afraid Ji Siyan would be angry. "I'll take care of the baby. I won't cause you any trouble."

Ji Siyan's long, well-defined fingers closed around the hand holding the test. His touch was scorching, but his words were cold and simple. "Have the baby."

Only Ji Siyan knew how he had spent the entire night awake more than a month ago, after hearing that Xu Yi's one true love was returning from abroad.

Upcoming novel: Professor Lu, Can I Add You on WeChat?

Mischievous girl-group kitten x professor who only seems aloof

The year Zhu Zhen turned twenty-two, she almost debuted in a Korean girl group. Unfortunately, she was out of luck and failed to make the cut.

The night before she was supposed to debut as the top-tier star group's visual and main vocalist, a hater exposed her secret early marriage to a trainee at her company.

Her spot in the top-tier group went to someone else overnight. Her luck went from bad to worse: she became the entertainment company's first artist to be sent back, and also became a divorcee at a young age.

Unable to make it abroad, Zhu Zhen immediately bought a ticket home. The night her career abroad fell apart, she went to a bar to drink and have fun, and happened to spend the night with a man she didn't know.

The next day, she grabbed her shoes and underwear and ran off without even seeing what the man in bed looked like, covering her face as she fled.

If anyone found out she was a failed starlet from overseas, she'd be in trouble, so she chose to make a quick getaway.

A month after returning home, her mother urged her again and again to go on a blind date. She said she'd introduce her to a handsome young university professor from a good family, the son of her best friend. He knew about Zhu Zhen's situation and was willing to marry a divorcee despite never having been married himself.

Zhu Zhen told her mother that even if the man was willing to marry her, she wasn't willing to marry him. She was still going to make it in China's entertainment industry.

After making that bold claim, Zhu Zhen tried to break into the domestic entertainment industry, carrying the label of a former Korean entertainment hopeful whose debut had failed.

At one event, Zhu Zhen happened to appear on a shopping livestream with a university professor.

The host introduced him: "Professor Lu Han became a professor at Qing University at twenty-five. Lots of people online say he's so handsome he could be a top-tier star if he joined the entertainment industry."

With her years of experience in Korean entertainment shaping her taste, Zhu Zhen thought the host was absolutely right. Standing beside him, she chimed in, "I think Professor Lu is really handsome, too. I especially like men like him who wear gold-rimmed glasses. If I were a stranger, I'd definitely want to add him on WeChat."

Zhu Zhen wasn't just saying that. She had fallen for Professor Lu at first sight. After the livestream, she took out her phone and asked him for his WeChat. "Hey, Professor Lu, want to add each other on WeChat?"

Full of anticipation, Zhu Zhen figured that with her girl-group-visual beauty, she could surely make this man, who seemed uninterested in romance but was incredibly handsome, so much as lift a finger.

The man she'd pegged as uninterested in romance wore gold-rimmed glasses. His smiling eyes held a hint of meaning as he said, "Adding me on WeChat again? Haven't we already added each other?"

Zhu Zhen tilted her head. "???"

Lu Han took off his glasses, his smiling eyes curving as he said, "At the Alice Hotel, a month ago."

"Wait! It was you?!" Zhu Zhen's eyes widened. She stumbled back three feet and cried out.

Lu Han put his glasses back on. Looking extremely interested, he merely smiled and said, "You didn't call me that that night."

"What did I call you?" Zhu Zhen asked, mouth agape.

The man crooked a finger at her.

Zhu Zhen leaned closer.

The next second, Lu Han whispered in her ear, "You called me hubby."

Theme: Companionship is the most romantic confession.