The Honest Man Got His Employer Pregnant

Coming soon: "How to Properly Covet Your Brother’s Wife" During his internship, Cheng Tian’an was harassed by his boss. By a strange twist of fate, he ended up in bed with a stranger, then hurriedly fled. Jobless and with barely anything left in his bank account, Cheng Tian’an rubbed his aching back as he gloomily scrolled through job listings. Suddenly, an ad caught his eye. [Urgently hiring a chef! Work one day, rest one day. The boss has an eccentric personality and a picky palate, so applicants must be outstanding cooks, good-looking, and mentally resilient. Base salary: 60,000!] Were scam ads really this outrageous nowadays? Cheng Tian’an scoffed, then silently counted the zeroes. He sprang out of bed like a carp leaping from water. Sixty thousand! A month’s salary equal to a whole year of his usual work! Scam or not, Cheng Tian’an immediately called the recruiter and went to interview at a mansion. There were loads of applicants, and every one of them looked like a master chef with some special skill. Cheng Tian’an decided he had no chance, left after making three dishes and a soup, and went home. Back home, he opened the account he hadn’t updated in ages and started livestreaming himself cooking to recharge. “Never Awake” was a somewhat popular food tutorial creator on D Station. His pretty hands, lively, clear voice, and cooking tutorials so easy even a toddler could follow had earned him plenty of fans. Even though he was used to viewers calling him “wife” and “baby,” Cheng Tian’an still felt his ears grow warm. A notification floated across the screen: @NotIntoFood has entered the livestream! NotIntoFood was a longtime fan who had followed him since he first started posting videos. They didn’t say much, but they meant business. After a string of flashy gifts filled the screen, Cheng Tian’an looked at the comments: [NotIntoFood: Wake up. What are we eating today?] With his mask on and his eyes crinkling in a smile, Cheng Tian’an introduced the dishes one by one. “We’re having home-style food today: tofu stuffed with meat, blanched choy sum, twice-cooked pork, and lotus root and pork rib soup.” On the other side of the screen, Shang Sichen sat at his desk, staring at the bowl of tender, slow-cooked lotus root and pork rib soup beside him. His gaze darkened. - To his surprise, Cheng Tian’an got the job. He enjoyed cooking in the mansion’s enormous kitchen, while privately grumbling that his employer really did have an impossibly picky palate. The mansion’s staff said their boss was cold and restrained, and rarely smiled. Cheng Tian’an said nothing. Later, when he brought the food to the table, the plate nearly slipped from his hands and smashed on the floor. Th-this is the person from that day... Oh no! This is a disaster! To keep his job, Cheng Tian’an decided the best approach was to avoid meeting his boss. If he could dodge him, he would. Until one day, he was throwing up violently in the kitchen when a pair of large hands scooped him up from the cold floor. Through the haze, Cheng Tian’an heard a low, hoarse voice. “Wake up. How long are you going to keep avoiding me?” Bonus scene: On countless nights afterward, Shang Sichen would seize Cheng Tian’an by his slender ankle and pull him back beneath him. Pressing his lips to Cheng Tian’an’s burning ear, he coaxed softly, “Wake up. No hiding.” Cheng Tian’an trembled all over. “Weren’t we supposed to work one day and rest one day?” Who was it that said older men were all restrained and celibate?! Content warnings: Pregnancy fic, pregnancy fic, pregnancy fic!! A fluffy, brainless romance where everything serves the love story!! Please add my upcoming stories to your reading list! "Pregnant with My Boss’s Baby After Our Marriage of Convenience" Que Yuening spent three years as a stand-in for his boss’s first love, working diligently and never arriving late or leaving early. But something major happened recently: his boss got into a car accident, lost his memory, and developed aphasia! Well, he was already a man of few words, and now he literally couldn’t speak. Que Yuening stuck to the first-love persona: a gentle, aloof beauty. Well, apart from the beautiful part, neither of those other qualities described him at all. But he was good at acting! The hospital room was silent. His boss leaned against the hospital bed, scanned the room, and let his gaze fall on Que Yuening. Me? You mean me? Que Yuening froze, then immediately put on a smile and walked over with elegant, graceful steps. Sitting by the bed, he took his boss’s hand and said with tears in his eyes, “Shaoheng, you’re finally awake.” Li Shaoheng, whose sleeve he was using to wipe his nose: ...How fake. Three years as the first love’s stand-in, three years married. Now that his boss had lost his memory, Que Yuening only cared whether his soon-to-expire contract would be renewed. But his boss seemed to have forgotten all about the contract and thought they were really married. No, no, no! Que Yuening searched high and low, found their old agreement, and handed it to his boss with an ingratiating smile. “Boss, this is the stand-in agreement. Are you renewing it this year?” Li Shaoheng’s gaze fell on the four large words “Marriage Agreement” in the title. He fell silent. “Don’t be fooled by the title. It’s really a stand-in agreement. You know what that means, right? I’m taking someone else’s place, and the person I’m standing in for is your first love, you know? You have to understand, playing your first love is really hard. I’ve even been injured on the job, and that needs to be factored into my pay...” After explaining until his mouth went dry, Li Shaoheng still didn’t say a word. “Come on, Boss, say something!” Li Shaoheng: ... Objectively speaking, he couldn’t. Unable to sort out the contract and with no money to leave, Que Yuening had no choice but to put up with things and stay by his boss’s side for now, waiting for a chance to escape. His boss had a bad memory, couldn’t speak, didn’t like going home, and was generous with money. Thinking about it that way, Que Yuening wasn’t exactly getting the short end of the stick. He waited and waited until his boss was on the verge of recovering his memory. Then Que Yuening noticed in horror that his belly seemed to be growing! Damn it! No matter. A big belly won’t stop him from running away! - When Li Shaoheng woke up after the car accident, he was told his wife had changed. He seemed a little more dead inside and kept saying things Li Shaoheng couldn’t understand. It wasn’t a bad change, so Li Shaoheng didn’t think much of it. That is, until his wife brought out the marriage agreement for the third time, insisting it was an agreement to serve as his first love’s stand-in. Li Shaoheng finally lost patience. With a dark expression, he pinned him to the sofa and gave him a thorough scolding. Li Shaoheng rasped, “Ningbao, tell me. Are you my wife or not?” The pen fell from Que Yuening’s hand. “...Ah!” Theme: Stay positive and keep working hard at life.