Highlights: GB, both leads are sexually inexperienced, male pregnancy
Qiao Tang, the strongest rogue cultivator, has always loved freedom and done as she pleased. She traveled the world alone with her sword and made a name for herself across the Three Realms while still young. Then, on one of her visits home, she found an amnesiac mortal in her own crabapple grove.
The mortal had raven hair and skin like snow, clear eyes and red lips. He was as innocent as an immortal who had only just entered the mortal world.
Qiao Tang's heart, dormant for eight hundred years, shamefully stirred. But taking advantage of someone in need was no gentleman's behavior, so she patiently bandaged his wounds, helped him search for his memories, and kept him safe.
She named him "Qiao Lin."
The two rose with the sun and rested at sunset in the crabapple grove, each with their own duties.
Qiao Tang would go down the mountain now and then to earn a little money for the household, bringing back small gifts for Qiao Lin. She always enjoyed seeing his curious, excited expression when she returned, and thought it was rather nice having someone like him at home.
One day, Qiao Tang was ambushed and drugged with an aphrodisiac by someone who admired her. She fought her way back to the grove and curled up beneath the crabapple tree where she had found Qiao Lin, enduring the drug's effects.
She didn't want to force Qiao Lin.
But Qiao Lin came to her of his own accord, walking toward her step by step and looking at her tenderly. "If it's you, I'm willing..."
Beneath the crabapple tree, they lost themselves in passion, shaking countless crabapple blossoms to the ground. At last, with the moon high overhead, Qiao Tang carried the sleeping Qiao Lin home.
Not long afterward, they held a grand wedding, with Heaven and Earth as witnesses and the crabapple grove as their guest.
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After getting married, Qiao Tang changed her old habit of never staying home. She wanted nothing more than to spend every day with her beloved, until she went out one day and came home to find that her spouse had run away!
Qiao Tang refused to believe that Qiao Lin, who blushed whenever she kissed him, could have stopped loving her and abandoned her!
Unless his memories had returned.
They had already considered every possible outcome of his memory returning and how to handle each one, and nowhere in their plans did Qiao Lin run away and hide like a coward!
So the strongest rogue cultivator began her search for her husband. To find him, she broke through the cultivation level she had been suppressing and borrowed an artifact from the Divine Realm.
But the Divine Lord who kept avoiding her looked strangely familiar...
No, not just familiar. He looked exactly like Qiao Lin!
Qiao Tang forced her way into the divine palace to demand answers. Under her relentless questioning, he panicked and fainted on the spot.
She swallowed down all her anger and hurried to find a physician.
Then they discovered that the Divine Lord was pregnant.
With her child, no less.
The thread of reason in Qiao Tang's mind snapped. Questioning her grasp on reality, she said, "Men... can have babies too?"
The strongest rogue cultivator heroine x the supreme Divine Lord hero.
He knew Qiao Tang loved freedom, unlike him, trapped in the divine palace and left to await the executioner's blade of fate. He didn't want to use this child to tie Qiao Tang down for the rest of her life, but he couldn't bear to part with the baby...
He spent his days in anxious dread and could only run away.
Until the day Qiao Tang forced her way into the divine palace and learned of all his duties and worries. She simply smiled and said, "You wouldn't want the child to be born without a mother, would you?"
As she had done countless times before, she didn't give up on him, or on their child.
[Reader's Guide]
1. The male lead is strong, but the female lead is stronger. The male pregnancy happens in the middle to later part of the story. Pregnant male lead: do not read if this is a dealbreaker.
2. The heroine has it all: a loving wife and children at home [not really].
3. Neither pure fluff nor pure wish fulfillment. It's a "he runs, she chases, he can't escape" story, and also a male-lead-runs-away-with-the-baby story.
4. A wildly satisfying story about the heroine's life. The hero is a poor little thing.
5. The child is a girl, formed from energies that merged while the two unconsciously connected spiritually.
6. If you're okay with all of the above, open the story and enjoy a romance that begins with a home invasion!
Theme: A harmonious family brings prosperity to all.
