Fish Nesting Beneath the Parasol Tree: Pregnancy Before Love

Complete | Urban fairy tale | Cinderella story | Powerful Hong Kong tycoon daddy x exceptionally capable sister’s-boy type | Six-year age gap | Both leads are sexually inexperienced! Please add the similar story *Pregnant by My Hater, Then Falling in Love* to your reading list! Blurb: Meng Qiyu has just received an offer from a top architecture firm and is about to share the news with her boyfriend when she accidentally catches him kissing a junior student. That night, her cheating ex calls to ask what she’s doing. Meng Qiyu’s fair, slender fingertips rest on hard, scorching abs. In a calm voice, she says, “Sleeping with a man.” Hearing her ex’s furious reaction makes Meng Qiyu feel great. But the pleasure of passionate sex is even better. At the time, Meng Qiyu doesn’t know that the man in front of her is her new boss, or that he’s her boyfriend’s third uncle. She thinks it’s just a one-night fling, but a month later, people crowd around the hospital’s obstetrics and gynecology department like a human wall. The man walks through the bodyguards toward her. Meng Qiyu feels an oppressive pressure that makes it hard to breathe. “Miss Meng, did you think ten yuan would be enough to buy my child?” Meng Qiyu: “…” * Not long after joining the company as a new employee, Meng Qiyu is spotted walking with the boss. Fortunately, Shenchuan Architecture has strictly prohibited office romances ever since it was founded. Besides, the big boss, Lu Wuchuan, is notorious in both Beijing and Hong Kong for being a workaholic and frigid. Then, not long afterward, everyone sees the young woman run out of the boss’s office in tears, and they stop reading into it altogether. Meng Qiyu is pleased. She only wants to keep her secret identity under wraps until she gives birth, collect thirty billion, and dump Lu Wuchuan. Half a month before their contract is due to expire, Meng Qiyu pretends not to know Lu Wuchuan as usual at a meeting. The meeting is nearly over, and she thinks she’s gotten away with it again. Her mind wanders for a moment, and when she comes to… “Wifey, what do you think?” the man asks without warning. Everyone’s eyes turn to her at once. Meng Qiyu is about to make an excuse, thinking Mr. Lu must have called the wrong person, when Lu Wuchuan adds: “Then who was the one clinging to me last night and insisting on bouncing on my lap?” Everyone: “!!!!!” * Meng Qiyu doesn’t know that Lu Wuchuan had already harbored shameful desires for her while she was still dating his nephew. During that accident, Lu Wuchuan knew she was his nephew’s girlfriend, but still used the alcohol as an excuse to give in to his feelings. Please add *Pregnant by My Hater, Then Falling in Love* to your reading list! Blurb: Hong Kong tycoon x radiant actress | Sex first, love later Blurb: Xia Weiwei is a top-tier star in the entertainment industry, a perennial favorite who has become famous around the world. At one event, Xia Weiwei arrives in a custom pale-yellow summer couture gown that makes her shine. More than ten thousand people in the crowd can’t take their eyes off her. From the main backstage area on the second floor, a man says: “She’s just a pretty face.” The entire venue falls deathly silent. By the time everyone reacts, the man has already left. After the event, Xia Weiwei learns that the person who called her a pretty face is Lu Yanzhou of Hong Kong’s Lu family. Lu Yanzhou is part of one of Hong Kong’s most prominent families. In Hong Kong, his name is more useful than a bank card! Xia Weiwei immediately makes Lu Yanzhou her number one hater. From then on, everyone sees them competing and bickering, each seemingly eager to throttle the other! Later, the media photograph Xia Weiwei with a visibly rounded belly and suspect she’s pregnant. As the whole internet scrambles to find out who Xia Weiwei’s husband is, Lu Yanzhou posts his first Weibo. [Lu Yanzhou: Yes, we have a child] The photo shows their marriage certificates. The entire internet explodes in a second! [???? Am I seeing things!!!] [Wait! Weren’t you two sworn enemies???] [You didn’t kill each other, you got into bed together and had a baby?] After an accident, they discover that they’re exceptionally compatible in bed. For a while, they both tacitly agree to keep up this arrangement. In public, they act like sworn enemies. In private, they can’t keep their hands off each other. But people who walk by the river often enough are bound to get their shoes wet. The day she finds out she’s pregnant, Xia Weiwei calls to arrange an abortion right in front of Lu Yanzhou. The instant the call connects, Lu Yanzhou grabs her hand and hangs up. “Let’s give it a try. The child is innocent, and besides, no one could be more compatible with you than me.” Lu Yanzhou is thoughtful and meticulous. He proposes a contract marriage, giving the child a legitimate identity, and Xia Weiwei agrees. And so, they begin their married life. On the day the news breaks, Xia Weiwei is preparing a public response when she sees Lu Yanzhou’s Weibo post. Xia Weiwei: ? Weren’t they supposed to get divorced after the baby was born, with him keeping the child? When the internet is back up, Xia Weiwei sees Lu Yanzhou’s second post. [Lu Yanzhou V: In this life, Xia Weiwei is my only wife. She’s the only one I love.] It takes the internet by storm. A very, very long time later, after they finish making love, Xia Weiwei asks lazily, “Lu Yanzhou, if you liked me from the start, why didn’t you say so?” Lu Yanzhou looks at the red mole on the girl’s shoulder blade, gives a rueful laugh, says nothing, and pounces on her again. Xia Weiwei doesn’t know that Lu Yanzhou fell for her at first sight. He realized just how much he liked her when she got dressed and walked off after they slept together without even sparing him a glance. So he knew he couldn’t let Xia Weiwei find out he liked her. A woman as heartless as her would leave him if she knew. Theme: Gentle love helps both people grow