After Seizing the Throne, My Political Rival's Wife Ran Off Pregnant

[Carefree beauty guard, the receiver × aloof, dignified emperor, the pursuer] Prince Gu Yanbai holds power over the court and makes no secret of his ambition. He is the greatest threat to the Crown Prince’s claim to the throne. Meng Zhuo is the youngest son of the current prime minister. The empress is the prime minister’s younger sister, and the maternal relatives have formed their own faction to support the Crown Prince, making them political enemies of Prince Cheng. To seize power, Meng Zhuo’s father uses him as a pawn and marries him into Prince Cheng’s household so he can assassinate Gu Yanbai. On their wedding night, Meng Zhuo discovers that Gu Yanbai is afflicted with a strange poison that makes him violent and consumed by uncontrollable lust. And the poison is his father’s doing. As the son of a political enemy who came with murder on his mind, Meng Zhuo could be cut down by Gu Yanbai more easily than a piece of firewood. Meng Zhuo watches Gu Yanbai look at him as if he wants to tear him apart and devour him, trembling as he grips the dagger hidden in his sleeve. How is anyone supposed to survive this? * The title of Prince Cheng’s consort is nothing but a joke to the whole court. After their wedding, Meng Zhuo keeps his head down and tries to survive in the cracks, taking things one day at a time. But as time goes by, Meng Zhuo finds himself rubbing his growing belly, lost in thought… A year later, Prince Cheng seizes the throne, and the entire prime minister’s household is executed. As for Meng Zhuo, his legal spouse, Gu Yanbai coolly says, “Kill him too.” Meng Zhuo promptly flees with the baby. He gets away, but Gu Yanbai keeps the newborn and makes him the Crown Prince. * The palace is full of dangers. To see his child, Meng Zhuo conceals his identity and changes his appearance. He passes the selection for the Yilin Guards and becomes one of the guards at Gu Yanbai’s side. For three years, Meng Zhuo covers his tracks flawlessly, except for one mishap when he happens to witness Gu Yanbai lose control during a bout of poison. Afterward, he wipes away every trace, certain he has left no evidence behind. But a few months later, his belly starts growing again… One day, Meng Zhuo is careless while on duty and is punished with fifty lashes. When he removes the guards’ standard silver-scaled uniform, his six-month pregnancy is impossible to hide. Afraid his identity will be exposed, Meng Zhuo stubbornly insists, “Your servant has simply eaten too much.” Gu Yanbai says, “Did you forget? This is my second child. It’s not as if I’ve never seen a pregnant belly before.” Wedding-night scene: Gu Yanbai crooks a finger, and Meng Zhuo, kneeling at his feet, raises his head. He is a gentle beauty with exceptionally fine features. Gu Yanbai: “The prime minister’s son, and you’re already giving in so easily?” Meng Zhuo: “Does it matter whether I give in easily? If Your Highness cares, I can put up a fight.” Gu Yanbai: “…” Remembering the erotic stories about men he crammed before the wedding, Meng Zhuo suddenly understands. “Does Your Highness like the forceful kind? I can pretend to resist, too. Should I let you tie up my hands?” Gu Yanbai: “…” Meng Zhuo: “If Your Highness wants, I can cry out, too. I can even make my voice rise and fall in all sorts of ways.” Gu Yanbai: “Shut up.” No matter how much he cries, he’ll have brought it on himself. *One more content warning, please note: There are two pregnancy and childbirth storylines, and the receiver suffers quite a lot physically throughout the story. Readers who are protective of the receiver may want to proceed with caution. orz Coming next: The Puppy I Dumped Differentiates into a Top Enigma. Please add it to your lists! [Sharp-tongued but soft-hearted beauty lover, the receiver × gentle, clingy, insecure puppy, the pursuer] 1 He Rang is an Alpha who likes Alphas. One time, he ran into an attractive but poor college student at a bar. Someone was gripping the student’s chin and forcing drinks down his throat. His lashes were lowered in a helpless attempt to endure it, and his Adam’s apple bobbed as he struggled to swallow. He Rang’s fingers itched at the sight, so he stepped in and stopped the person forcing him to drink. The man assumed He Rang was being gallant. Instead, He Rang ordered everything on the drinks menu and personally made the student drink until he collapsed. With his fluffy, slightly curled hair and drunken, hazy gaze, the student tilted his head and stared straight at He Rang. He Rang’s lips curved in a casual smile. “Don’t look at me like a puppy.” Xie Yixun was poor. To pay for the treatment of the puppy he’d adopted, he agreed to He Rang’s terms. A contract later, he became He Rang’s obedient little boyfriend. 2 He Rang never expected the boyfriend he’d brought home on a whim to be an Enigma who hadn’t finished differentiating. Not even Xie Yixun knew. Top-tier Enigmas can not only mark Alphas, they can also force them into a period of submission. He Rang broke up with him without hesitation. On the day they parted, Xie Yixun stood in the courtyard like a poor puppy abandoned in the rain, drenched for hours. All he got from He Rang was, “I’m bored of you.” Not long afterward, He Rang received his medical results. He hadn’t even come to terms with the fact that an Alpha like him was pregnant when he was told, “During pregnancy, you need compatible pheromones to soothe you.” He Rang paid it no mind and left the country alone. 3 Four years later, He Rang returns home and runs into Xie Yixun outside a kindergarten, now fully differentiated as an Enigma. Xie Yixun has swept up acting awards and become a top-tier star. He stares intently at the little child holding He Rang’s hand. “He really looks like you.” “Your wife didn’t come with you?” He Rang smiles without warmth. “She’s busy.” “…” Later, when Xie Yixun can barely smell He Rang’s pheromones anymore, he learns that pheromone rejection has caused He Rang’s glands to atrophy. Since four years ago, He Rang’s body has instinctively rejected all pheromones. Except for his. Theme: Instead of forcing yourself to keep going, give yourself a break