After the Cauldron Furnace Escapes While Pregnant

Upcoming: The Dragon Whelp Is Being Raised by His Nemesis and My Ex Wants to Get Back Together After I Return Home (rugged northeastern Chinese top x hot-tempered young master bottom). Please add them to your collection!

Qiao Yanshuang was a Seven-Day Drunken Hibiscus, and a natural cultivation cauldron.

Because of his unusual constitution, the Chen family bought him to treat their heaven-blessed prodigy.

Chen Zhutian, the Chen family's peerless genius, the likes of whom appeared only once in a thousand years, was stiff and cold-hearted. Apart from treating his illness, he never spared Qiao Yanshuang so much as an extra glance.

Later, the Chen family was slaughtered, and Qiao Yanshuang dug Chen Zhutian out of a pile of corpses, barely clinging to life.

From then on, they depended on each other to survive.

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Two thousand years after ascending, Chen Zhutian had risen to become the foremost of the Twelve Immortal Venerables. Qiao Yanshuang was still nothing more than an ambiguous attendant at his side.

No one knew that the flawless pills flowing through the Immortal Palace came from Qiao Yanshuang's hands. Even fewer knew... that he and the Immortal Venerable on the high throne had long since sealed a Daoist partner's contract.

The night of a banquet, Qiao Yanshuang had a dream.

He dreamed he was merely a cannon-fodder character in a storybook, while the true protagonists were Chen Zhutian and the Heavenly Emperor's youngest son.

The two would meet after the banquet and become entangled from then on.

And he was just a discarded Daoist partner who betrayed Chen Zhutian out of jealousy and was killed by a single sword thrust.

In the lower realm, Qiao Yanshuang had taken hidden blades for Chen Zhutian and shouldered the blame for him.

After reaching the upper realm, he had worked day and night refining flawless pills until his old injuries flared up. He coughed blood and could barely move.

Even so, outside the bedroom, Chen Zhutian remained ice-cold toward him.

After waking up and seeing how special Chen Zhutian was to the Heavenly Emperor's son, Qiao Yanshuang finally realized he'd been blinded by love.

Just as he was planning to leave this ridiculous farce behind, something stirred in his dantian, and there was... a child in his belly.

Qiao Yanshuang: "...?!"

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Chen Zhutian had a beloved. As far as he was concerned, the two of them had met when they were nobodies and had stayed together through every storm and hardship.

Until one day, his obedient, beautiful Daoist partner, whose heart and eyes held only him, asked:

"Chen Zhutian, have you ever felt even a little moved by me?"

Chen Zhutian thought, Yes.

But looking into those tear-filled eyes, he said instead, "Have you had enough?"

Later, he watched helplessly as Qiao Yanshuang leaped from the Immortal-Breaking Cliff, their unborn child perishing with him without a trace.

Chen Zhutian went mad. He searched the heavens and earth but couldn't find Qiao Yanshuang's soul. All he could do was guard his dead beloved's possessions and drown in regret.

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At a birthday celebration for the Heavenly Emperor, envoys from the Divine Realm arrived, and the Divine Lord's son presented the birthday gift on their behalf.

Chen Zhutian saw the face that was identical in every detail to his deceased Daoist partner's and rushed over. "A Yan!"

Qiao Yanshuang instinctively shielded his slightly rounded belly, his expression indifferent. "Immortal Lord, please show some restraint."

"I don't know you."

Dragon-Slaying Prodigy x Sickly Beauty

Warnings:

1. There are misunderstandings between the top and bottom. Readers with strong preferences, please proceed with caution. This is a story of love and hatred, melodramatic angst, and a long road to redemption. If it bothers you, run away at once.

2. No secondary couples.

3. After awakening, the bottom gradually goes from cannon fodder to universally adored, with a rivalry among the men.

4. The main characters aren't perfect and each has their own flaws.

5. Both the top and the bottom adore their child.

Upcoming story: My Ex Wants to Get Back Together After I Return Home

[Rugged northeastern Chinese top x hot-tempered young master bottom]

In his second year studying in the UK, Lin Chaoyu still received one text a day from his ex-boyfriend.

"Darling, I heard the UK has switched to winter time. Are you doing okay over there? It gets dark around three in the afternoon in the Northeast too. I hope the free-range eggs I mailed you cheer you up."

The last boiled egg sat on the counter. Lin Chaoyu cracked it open, and halfway through eating it, he started to cry.

What a jerk. They'd broken up, but he still treated Lin Chaoyu like his diary.

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After graduating and returning to China, Lin Chaoyu went to a welcome-home dinner with his crowd of friends.

He pushed open the private room door and immediately spotted a tall man with sharp brows and bright eyes.

The man wore a meticulously tailored designer casual suit. Everything about him, right down to his hair, screamed, "I'm rich."

Lin Chaoyu: "...?!"

Wasn't this his ex, who was supposed to be back in the countryside feeding chickens?

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The Xiao family had found their biological son, who had gone missing eighteen years earlier.

At first, Gao Liang couldn't adjust to this sudden life of wealth.

He was a sorghum stalk grown in black soil, used to wind, frost, rain, and snow. Planted in a flowerpot, his roots couldn't spread.

[You're not good enough for him! Chaoyang has spent every day suffering for his future. What gives you the right to cling to him? Love is nice, but what about money?]

[If you can't give him a comfortable life, get lost! A toad dreaming of swan meat. You really think saving his life means he has to marry you?]

Those cutting words remained vivid in his mind. Gao Liang, now Xiao Liang, looked at the young man in their photograph every night and spent his days working hard to absorb all the unfamiliar knowledge around him.

He had to... be good enough for his young master.

He would take him to a golden nest, a silver nest, not the old earthen bed that might still collapse from time to time.

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When they met again, Lin Chaoyu was the one who felt awkward.

He frantically scrolled through his texts, which hadn't been updated in six months.

Wasn't this guy helping Aunt Zhang from the east end of the village deliver a calf just six months ago? How had he become a member of the Xiao family in the blink of an eye?

After a few rounds of drinks, Lin Chaoyu excused himself to use the bathroom.

Sure enough, the man followed him.

He stood facing Lin Chaoyu, head bowed and eyes lowered, looking strangely like a big dog abandoned by its owner.

Xiao Liang: "Baby, I... Can you give me another chance to pursue you?"

Lin Chaoyu exploded. "Just because your Mandarin is standard now doesn't mean you can go around talking in your sleep!"

Xiao Liang: "..."

Notes:

1. Main POV follows the bottom, one-on-one romance, and a reconciliation after a breakup.

2. Devoted big Sorghum x hot-tempered little Corn.

3. "There are no free-range eggs this winter, but I do have a son who's a chicken.", Lin Chaoyu

Upcoming story: The Dragon Whelp Goes Looking for His Family and Is Raised by His Nemesis

Luo Yunyao was born with a bloodline defect and grew more slowly than other dragon whelps.

On the day he was about to hatch, he was overjoyed. Looking at the blurry shadows of his parents, he made a wish: May the three of us never be separated.

After he finished wishing, someone gently stroked his eggshell. "Be good, Zhaozhao. Papa and Father are going to play hide-and-seek with you. You have to find us."

When he woke, Luo Yunyao let out a tiny, babyish "Awooo, " without thinking.

Confused, he looked down and saw his chubby little paws. "...?"

He had hatched!

But where were Papa and Father?

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With no time to think, the little one took the game of hide-and-seek seriously and went searching for his parents everywhere.

When he saw a cultivator with a tail sticking out, he ran over, hugged it, and called, "Papa!" When he saw a cultivator with two horns on his head, he tugged on his sleeve and called, "Father!"

He met plenty of "papas" and "fathers" along the way, but not one of them was the real deal.

The cultivators patted his head and all condemned the person who'd abandoned such an adorable little one.

Luo Yunyao: QAQ

That's not it. Papa's just playing hide-and-seek with me.

After countless hardships, the little one finally managed to sneak into the Gathering of All Clans, which was said to be attended by the entire cultivation world.

He looked up to see two figures on the arena, fighting until blood and flesh flew.

Feeling the pull of his bloodline, Luo Yunyao ignored everyone's attempts to stop him and stood between them.

"Papa, Father!" he cried. "Don't fight. Zhaozhao has been good and has been looking for you this whole time..."

Yun Linchuan forcibly stopped his attack, incredulous. "You gave birth to him?"

Luo Huaishi had no time to answer. His heart tightened inexplicably as he looked at the little one. "Little one, are you calling me?"

Luo Yunyao's eyes widened. His mouth trembled, and tears fell to the ground, plip plop.

Waaah, why don't Papa and Father remember that they have a baby?

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Luo Huaishi couldn't remember ever having a child, let alone one with Yun Linchuan, his junior fellow disciple who had betrayed the sect and fled with its treasures.

The two of them had fought like roosters at the Jiuxiao Sect, and whenever they met, they wanted to beat each other to death. How could they possibly have a child?

After they tested the child's blood...

The "bad" news: the child really was his.

The worse news: the child was Yun Linchuan's too.

The two stared at each other in silence, the atmosphere awkward.

The cultivators watching: "Now that's exciting!"

#What do you do when you have a kid with your nemesis? #

#The entire cultivation world is waiting for us to reconcile. #

Notes:

1. A slice-of-life story about raising a child.

2. The child's love interest is a little black dragon, his childhood friend who is possessive and scheming from a young age. They're friends as children and lovers as adults. The main focus is raising the child.

3. A love story about two fathers. The prequel can be summed up as: There are no true nemeses, only people who feel they're not loved enough. A one-night stand, a pregnancy and an attempt to flee that fails, followed by both parents losing their memories after the baby is born. A melodramatic romance.

4. The child is a little angel with a golden finger, able to heal the emotional scars of all living things. He helps his two fathers clear up their misunderstandings so the three of them can live happily as a family.

Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and strive to improve.