During the Torrential Rain [Running Away While Pregnant]

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Marriage first, love later / pregnancy first, love later / groveling pursuit / nine-year age gap.

At twenty-one, Tang Tian, a girl from the countryside, takes the wrong room key card at a party and spends a night with a stranger.

She doesn't see the man's face and has no idea who he is.

A month later, she looks down at the pregnancy test in her hand.

Two lines.

She falls into deep thought.

She has just cheated on her fiance.

So she goes to the Shen family and tells Shen Qingxu, "I want to break off our engagement."

The head of the Shen family sits on an ivory sofa. He glances sharply at her stomach and smiles. "Tang Tian, the baby you're carrying is mine."

Tang Tian freezes on the spot!

She never expected the man from that night to be Shen Qingxu!

So, at their parents' insistence, they go along with it and get married because of the baby!

Tang Tian has secretly loved Shen Qingxu for years. After they marry, she thinks she can finally win his heart with their child. But at a party, a friend asks, "How's married life?"

Shen Qingxu has a cigarette between his lips, white smoke blurring his features. His gaze is careless as he sneers, "She's just a chubby little country girl, not fit for respectable company. Once she has the baby, we'll split up."

Tang Tian, listening at the door, hears his words and bursts into tears.

Eventually, Tang Tian loses all hope.

The two divorce by mutual agreement.

One day after the divorce, Shen Qingxu sees her photo in the newspaper.

In the picture, she stands in muddy soil, holding a red flag as she directs the evacuation of disaster victims.

Behind her,

mountains stretch into the distance.

The head of the Shen family is consumed with regret.

[His world is filled with flowers, while hers has been barren for years.]

[She loves this desolate world.]

By Gu Qiaosheng

Reader's guide:

1. A bittersweet romance and a classic groveling-pursuit story. The leads will have misunderstandings.

2. The heroine grows over time. At first she's naive and guileless, but she matures and transforms, eventually becoming a village official.

3. There is a huge gap in the leads' family backgrounds, and the heroine will feel unworthy. Don't read if that's not your thing.

The Storm

Rekindled love / running away while pregnant / groveling pursuit / a bittersweet push and pull

Powerful heir to a wealthy family x aloof doctor

Blurb:

The day Su Yao graduates from university,

Xie Jingchen buys a bouquet and a gift and comes to her classroom, planning to give them to her.

But the next moment, he catches Su Yao kissing his best friend.

The classroom is stifling, with the doors and windows half-closed.

Xie Jingchen gazes at the girl before him, his eyes utterly cold.

"Why did you betray me?"

No matter how hard he thinks, he can't understand.

Su Yao stands by the window and touches her lips, still warm from the kiss. She says coolly, "If we're breaking up, we're breaking up. I don't need a reason."

Xie Jingchen glances at the flowers and gift scattered on the floor and suddenly feels like a joke.

Through gritted teeth, he snaps, "You win."

Five years later, one night,

Su Yao appears at Xie Jingchen's door, drenched and disheveled, her eyes red as she begs him:

"My grandfather needs surgery. Could you lend me some money?"

The man before her sits on the sofa, smoke curling from his fingertips. There isn't a trace of warmth in his eyes. His voice is cold as frost. "I can, but on one condition."

"Name it."

"Take it off."

A few minutes later, the bedroom lights go out.

In bed, she lets him take what he wants from her.

From then on, everyone in Beicheng knows that Mr. Xie has a woman by his side who has no official status.

Six months later, Su Yao becomes pregnant.

She is about to share the good news with Xie Jingchen when she learns that he is about to get engaged to someone else.

On the television, a bride and groom hold hands, smiling brightly.

Su Yao's heart turns to ash.

That night, a torrential rain falls over Beicheng.

Su Yao leaves Beicheng without taking a thing.

Xie Jingchen searches all over Beicheng, but can't find a trace of her.

Years later, they meet again on a snowy day.

Xie Jingchen is on a business trip and has a high fever. He goes out to buy medicine and unexpectedly sees Su Yao talking and laughing with a man outside a clinic.

They are holding hands with a little girl, too.

The moment Xie Jingchen sees the girl's face, he begins to tremble uncontrollably, overwhelmed by shock.

The little girl looks just like he did as a child.

After learning the truth, Xie Jingchen finds an opportunity to visit her clinic.

The clinic doors and windows are shut tight. He corners her against the wall, his burning breath brushing the back of her ear as he says each word, "Yao Yao, you've gotten bold. You even let my child call someone else Dad?"

Su Yao is just about to deny it.

A passionate kiss lands on her lips.

[I love you, rooted deep like a tree, surging like waves.]

[Note]

HE. Both leads are each other's first and only. Two-year age gap.

Theme: Live well