The Wife I Inherited

[Scheming, obsessive young master gong x gentle, beautiful married shou]

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Lu Huaiqian's feelings are something he must keep hidden.

Lin Mian raised him, yet he developed forbidden feelings for Lin Mian.

His father didn't love him, and his mother didn't care for him. He spent eight years living the life of an orphan.

Then Lin Mian was suddenly handed a child and forced to start raising him. Looking at the pale, gloomy Lu Huaiqian, he furrowed his brow and thought: Since nobody wants him, he's my child now.

"Huaiqian, don't be afraid of anyone picking on you. I'm here."

Lin Mian was so absorbed in raising his little one that he couldn't stop. Though he was as softhearted as a rabbit, he protected Lu Huaiqian every day, afraid he might suffer the slightest injustice.

What he didn't know was that Lu Huaiqian had been pretending to be good all along.

When he was little, Lu Huaiqian used to listen to bedtime fairy tales and think that the beautiful, kind princess had to look just like Lin Mian.

Long, smooth hair, smiling eyes, and a gentle, soft voice.

Lu Huaiqian was also generous with jewelry and accessories as a way of showing his love.

Still unaware of his feelings, Lin Mian would admire how grown-up Lu Huaiqian had become as he put on the pretty clothes Lu Huaiqian gave him. His eyes would sparkle as he asked how he looked, drawing all of Lu Huaiqian's attention away... In that moment, the whole world fell silent.

Until his father died.

Everyone thought Lu Huaiqian was after the inheritance. What did the inheritance matter?

What he wanted was Lin Mian.

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Lin Mian had a happy little problem: he couldn't do a thing about Lu Huaiqian.

Lu Huaiqian picked out the finest clothes, food, and everything else for him. If Lin Mian dared refuse, Lu Huaiqian would ask in a wounded voice, "Don't you love me anymore?"

I love you.

Lu Huaiqian is the one I love most. I raised him with my own hands, and I poured all my heart into him. How else could I have raised him into such a handsome young man?

It's just a shame he's so clingy and suspicious.

All Lin Mian could do was accept everything Lu Huaiqian gave him, kiss his cheek, and praise him as a good boy: I love you most of all. He never expected Lu Huaiqian to give him an even bigger surprise...

Lu Huaiqian met his gaze, his eyes full of amusement. "I didn't give you those clothes so you could wear them."

Lin Mian was a little confused. Then Lu Huaiqian gave his waist a firm pinch, like a threat, or perhaps a flirtation.

"I gave them to you so you could take them off."

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Reading guide:

1. The gong is 13 years younger. The gong is a virgin, and the shou is not.

2. Male pregnancy.

3. The gong and shou dote on each other. The shou raised the gong, so their relationship is all warm and cozy, you know? =v=

4. A heads-up: the shou's character arc takes a turn later on. In Chapter 21, the gong suggests giving him a company; in Chapter 55, he confesses; in Chapter 56, the shou has a company; and in Chapter 61, he introduces his lover to a friend.

The gong has been guiding him toward becoming a normal person all along. His life is on an upward path, but that isn't obvious in the first part. orz

Impatient readers can skip ahead.

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The characters all have growth arcs, and their relationship will transform.

5. All the characters have somewhat questionable values.

Next book: My Beta Wasn't Supposed to Get Pregnant!

[Scheming, obsessive Alpha gong x gentle, married Beta shou]

[Both are virgins, age gap of 15 years, younger gong]

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Gu Yuchuan was raised by Shen Yao.

On the night Shen Yao was supposed to leave, the young man pinned him to the bed with red-rimmed eyes. It was supposed to be against his will, but Shen Yao didn't even try to break free. He only gazed at him gently.

A young man's love was simply that fierce. Even knowing that an Alpha and a Beta were frowned upon, and that he might anger Shen Yao, he was still willing to take a chance.

The marking was more grueling than Gu Yuchuan had imagined.

He looked down at Shen Yao curled up in the sheets. His snow-white nape was covered in bite marks, and his damp lashes clumped together. He bent down and kissed Shen Yao's underdeveloped gland. His breath was scorching, hot enough to make the person beneath him shed a silent tear.

As the tear slipped into Shen Yao's hair, his fingertips gently came to rest on the back of Gu Yuchuan's head, as if comforting a heartbroken child.

"Shen Yao, you're mine."

Gu Yuchuan fastened a delicate anklet around the Beta's slender ankle. A tracking chip was embedded in its inner lining. His dark eyes were calm as he said, "My father is old. I'm younger than him, and I can satisfy you better."

He paused. "I can also give you a proper status."

For example, a wife.

Shen Yao froze. A flicker of amusement passed through his usually warm eyes, too fleeting for Gu Yuchuan to catch.

Some truths stuck in his throat, and in the end he didn't say them aloud. For instance, his relationship with Chairman Gu was nothing like the one Gu Yuchuan imagined.

In the end, Shen Yao never left the Gu family.

Gu Yuchuan agreed to everything except letting him go free, so Shen Yao could only lie flat and enjoy life under house arrest.

No, there was one more thing.

For twenty years, Gu Yuchuan had held back. Every night before bed, he would lean over the bedside and watch him.

The young man's usually obsessive, cold eyes held nothing but a hint of unease now, as if checking that Shen Yao was still there and hadn't left.

A turning point came suddenly.

The two of them were circling the bedroom in a game of "you run, I chase," putting on a show of reluctant, pretend coercion, when Shen Yao suddenly braced himself against the wall and retched.

Gu Yuchuan rushed him to the hospital in a panic. The doctor pushed up his glasses and drawled, "It's normal for a male Beta's reproductive cavity to atrophy, but... Mr. Gu, is your pheromone level supposed to be marking a Beta as an Omega? You've forced his second development to mature."

Shen Yao looked at Gu Yuchuan in silence.

Gu Yuchuan thought he didn't want the baby and was about to say, "It's okay if you don't want it," when Shen Yao took hold of his wrist first.

--He wanted to have the baby!

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1. It starts with being confined, but at heart it's a sweet story.

2. Younger gong, 18 x 33. There are scenes during pregnancy, and the baby will be born in the story.

3. The gong and shou love each other. The shou is just older and a little awkward about it. The joys of a younger gong, you know how it is =v=

Theme: In broken circumstances, forge the resilient light of life