She's the Cunning Little Imperial Merchant

Eighteen years ago, Yun Du City had a foolish young lady who seemed hopelessly slow on the uptake. Later, she became the legendary Grand General King, famed throughout the State of Chu.

They say that after the Grand General King was laid to rest on the frontier, her wife and daughter perished in a sea of flames, leaving only an adopted daughter to inherit her boundless honor and wealth.

Later, everyone said an adopted daughter was still only an adopted daughter. Even if she changed her name and was entered into the family register, she could never share the blood of that mighty and valiant Grand General King.

Twenty-year-old Gu Yingxi spent her days rolling around in mud and catching loaches.

Twenty-four-year-old Gu Xingyi spent her nights at the pleasure houses, carousing until dawn in her mansion.

And yet this was a noble Kunze whose reputation was so awful that not a single family in all of Yun Du City would agree to marry their daughter to her.

Then came word that she had taken a new mistress, someone she cherished with all her heart.

Unfortunately, that mistress was a blind little girl, beautiful beyond compare but an orphan who couldn't live without the Prince of Jing'an.

At first, Gu Xingyi thought she was a completely harmless little bunny. But the bunny bit her, then vanished the next day.

Furious and shocked, she vowed to bring back the little bunny who had taken her body and her heart without wanting money or profit.

But as she searched, something seemed wrong.

Why did this little bunny have a tiny bunny of her own?

Why did this little bunny have the surname Gu, too?

Why did this little bunny's mother look exactly like the Grand General King who had been buried on the frontier twenty years ago?

Wasn't that the adoptive mother who had taken her in, saved her life, and given her a home?

Wait, had she taken someone else's name, inherited the title that should have belonged to that person's daughter, and now bullied that very daughter, too?

Gu Nian was raised in the lap of luxury. She learned superb martial arts from her mother, while her business-prodigy mother taught her to use an abacus and read account books by hand from the age of six.

After all these years traveling far and wide with her two mothers, what hadn't she seen?

She grew up fearless, knowing that if she ever caused trouble, her dear A-Ma would always bail her out.

But one day, she got overconfident and fell into her rivals' trap. She accidentally drank wine laced with an aphrodisiac, losing all five senses and finding her inner power blocked. Then she went into heat.

She hid in a dark, deserted place, but a stranger Qianyuan stumbled in and took her away.

The kind Qianyuan wanted to take Gu Nian home, but Gu Nian wasn't in her right mind. She nearly treated the Qianyuan like a giant body pillow, stripping her and hugging her to sleep right there in the street.

Though Gu Nian couldn't see what she looked like, she was sure she had to be beautiful, judging by her voice.

Besides, after taking her home, the woman doted on her and soothed her every day. Even when her rut arrived, she held back, afraid to take advantage of Gu Nian.

But Gu Nian was outrageously bold. If you won't bite me, then I'll bite you~

One bite was all it took for sparks to fly. In a daze, Gu Nian formed a bond with her, and they spent seven days and seven nights tangled together, oblivious to everything around them.

Luckily, the Qianyuan was responsible, too. After their heat ended, she kept pestering Gu Nian to marry her. But they hardly knew each other, so Gu Nian thought she should at least find out who the woman really was first. When she finally learned her identity, she panicked. While the woman was asleep, Gu Nian packed a small bag and ran away.

When her mothers asked which reckless little Qianyuan had dared to mark her and then shirk her responsibilities, Gu Nian didn't dare say a word.

After all, she was the one who had reverse-marked the other woman, and she was the one who had run away without taking responsibility.

Perhaps it was karma for running off without a word: she became pregnant with the woman's baby.

She had planned to go back for her, but then she heard that she was spending her nights at pleasure houses. In a fit of anger, she took the baby and tried to leave, only to turn around and run straight into the scoundrel Qianyuan lying in wait.

She thought the woman would make her pay dearly, but instead she asked through tears, "Why did you leave me and have someone else's baby? What does that person have that I don't?"

Gu Nian: "???"

The difference is that you can breathe, but you can't think, you blockhead.

● This is a story about the little ones from The Obsessed Beauty's Soft Rice Alpha. It is connected to that novel, but can also be read on its own.

● Reader's guide: ABO, happy ending, one-on-one romance, pregnancy and running away, pure sweetness and pure exhilaration, with a little craziness now and then.

● An older Alpha who seems like a playboy but is actually a devoted, lovestruck blockhead x a younger, scheming Omega who fears nothing except seeing her wife cry

Theme: After all the twists and turns, it was you all along