Pearl Pregnancy

Dominant, cunning power player x cautious, proud little bunny, obsessive love

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Her husband has a hidden ailment, and after two years of marriage, Wen Youhuai still has no children. Faced with increasingly outrageous rumors, she steels herself and takes a risky step.

Her trusted maid, Hongyuan, finds her a blacksmith.

The blacksmith certainly puts in the effort. There is just one thing Wen Youhuai isn't happy about: during the act, the blacksmith tries to pry into her family background and identity. Terrified, she loses her nerve and quietly puts the whole thing to rest.

Fortunately, things soon take a turn for the better. Her husband finds favor in official circles, and not only is he promoted, his salary also increases several times over. The mood in the household improves, and even her mother-in-law stops nagging her every day to have a child. Wen Youhuai can't help feeling relieved.

Until the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, when Wen Youhuai goes out to admire the lanterns with her third sister.

She looks up and catches sight of the blacksmith, once forced to toil for a living, now standing on a tall building in splendid attire, surrounded by admirers.

He smiles faintly, but his face bears the cool indifference of a man in a position of power.

In a panic, Wen Youhuai tries to look away,

only to spot her own husband in a corner upstairs, holding a cup of wine and cautiously trying to approach him.

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Fu Boshan wields immense power at court and can stir the capital's fortunes with the slightest gesture. How could someone like him personally go out of his way to promote a minor official?

Wen Youhuai dares not think too much about it, but later she is summoned to see him.

Fu Boshan wears a smile the whole time, but his eyes carry an unmistakable force. "Wen Youhuai, what he can't give you, I can."

"The divorce papers are right here. Come to me when you've made up your mind."

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The first time Xu Zongsu saw Shen Yu, he was deeply captivated by her.

She was the beloved wife of his fallen subordinate.

Shen Yu stood in the corner of the tent, dressed in white. When she looked up, her swollen, reddened eyes were heartbreakingly lovely. She was as delicate as a gardenia that might snap at the slightest touch, and every step she took toward him afterward sank deeper into his heart.

Xu Zongsu slowly closed his eyes. He feared he would never again attain a state of perfect detachment in this life.

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Shen Yu is gentle and timid. Following the arrangements of her elders, she marries into a once-prominent family in the capital that has long since fallen into decline.

It is a match far above her station.

But her husband is as warm and refined as jade, and treats her with the utmost care. Not long after their wedding, he becomes the only support in her otherwise lonely life. Then the border calls for soldiers, and her husband unhesitatingly puts down his writing brush and joins the army.

Shen Yu waits alone at home for two long years, only to receive a brief letter asking for a divorce.

In the depths of her heartbroken despair, after crying until she has no tears left, Shen Yu makes the boldest decision of her life:

She will go alone to the military camp and demand an explanation from him in person.

On the night she arrives at the garrison, Shen Yu learns that her husband is dead and faints. When she wakes, she has lost her memory, vaguely recalling only that her husband wanted a divorce.

Looking at the utter stranger who claims to be her husband, Shen Yu shrinks back in fear. "Didn't you say you wanted to divorce me?"

Xu Zongsu pauses, his eyes darkening in an instant. "Not anymore."

Core message: Love gives people courage.