After a Scum Alpha Gets the Runaway-with-the-Baby Script

A wicked-to-the-core, seductive beauty bottom [Xie Yi] vs. a cold-on-the-outside, twisted-on-the-inside top who loves them all the more for their wickedness [Yan Shu]

Xie Yi is rotten to the core, born to be a heartbreaker. Her favorite thing to do in a relationship is dump her partner when they're most infatuated with her, then immediately start dating someone new.

Her exes, all dumped without warning, could form a victims' alliance. A book called Runaway Wife with Baby quietly circulates among them. But that's not the point. The point is that the poor, tragic, pregnant runaway flower in the book, born into poverty, is also named Xie Yi.

"This has to be someone's prank. How childish."

Xie Yi sees the book too and tosses it aside with disdain.

That night, she closes her eyes. When she opens them again, she's inside the book, right in the middle of a pregnancy scene.

The other protagonist frowns. Their cool, sharply defined features radiate an overwhelming pressure as they walk toward her, step by step.

"Wait, listen, we're both Alphas. We can't mark each other or deal with a heat. The urgent thing now is to go find suppressants, okay?"

Xie Yi has never been this panicked. The other person's domineering pheromones leave her struggling to breathe. She backs away, hurriedly explaining.

But the other person has clearly lost all reason, pins Xie Yi down, grabs her wrist, and presses her onto the bed.

When the other person's pheromones, like snow and wind on an icy plain, invade Xie Yi's glands, her eyes fill with disbelief.

Having not even read the book, Xie Yi of course has no idea that Enigmas exist in this world.

For three whole days, Xie Yi thinks she might not make it out of that room alive.

She passes out completely. When she wakes, the other person is standing beside the bed, already dressed. They toss her a card with a million on it. "This ends here. Don't come after me."

A million? Who are you insulting?

Xie Yi struggles to her feet, her waist and legs aching. She grabs her clothes, takes the only crumpled bill from her pocket, and throws it onto the bed. "Nice technique. I'll book you again next time."

Only after leaving the hotel does Xie Yi realize that she isn't the spendthrift CEO Xie anymore. She's now the penniless, delicate Xie Yi from the book.

The sound of high heels comes from behind her. She looks back. Unlike her own disheveled state, the other person strides along with effortless grace, looking every inch the refined beauty, nothing like the beast from earlier.

Faced with a choice between dignity and money, Xie Yi decisively chooses the latter.

She stops the other person and holds out her hand. "Give me the card."

The other person looks down at her with disdain, but still takes out the card and hands it over.

"And where's the other ten?" Even a mosquito's leg is meat. She shouldn't have tossed that bill at her earlier.

A flicker of shock crosses the other person's eyes. They give Xie Yi a complicated look, then get in the car and leave.

Xie Yi takes a deep breath. Fine. Now we're even.

Three months later, Xie Yi sees the other protagonist again at her newly opened bar. Xie Yi takes a drink from her new flame and raises it to the other person with a charming smile. Before she can bring it to her lips, the other person snatches it away.

"Don't you know you're pregnant?!"

As for that, Xie Yi has only just learned that this damned world even has Enigmas, and that she really did get pregnant. But it's no big deal. "Don't be so nervous. I've already booked the procedure. Want to have a drink together?"

"What did you say?" A storm rises in the other person's eyes.

That night, Xie Yi is taken to a luxurious estate. She rattles the golden chain around her wrist and clicks her tongue. Damn, she kicked a titanium-alloy wall.

Reader's Guide:

1. The world has Enigmas, who can mark Alphas and Omegas; Alphas, who can mark Omegas; Betas, who have no pheromone glands; and Omegas. The difference lies in pheromones and glands, not physical biology.

2. There is pregnancy, but the baby doesn't get much page time.

3. Coercive romance, confinement, and solving disagreements in bed.

Theme: Finding the piece of the puzzle that belongs to you