Savior of the Abandoned Dog

◆Pregnancy before love / healing / kept lover / female lead isn't a virgin, male lead is / raising him / reunion after a long separation

◆Radiant, spoiled, chatty heiress X gloomy, insecure illegitimate son who plays the pig to eat the tiger

◆In a nutshell: In their second year of high school, Su Jiao took in an abandoned dog. From then on, Yu Xingchuan obeyed her every command for the rest of his life.

◆Full blurb:

At first, Su Jiao only wanted to spend a little money to buy dirt on her rival from Yu Xingchuan.

In the end, all Su Jiao wanted was to spend a little money to buy some superior genes from Yu Xingchuan.

Su Jiao still remembers those carefree days when Yu Xingchuan tutored her while she texted the person she liked. She also remembers the incredible thrill of getting Yu Xingchuan drunk and climbing on top of him the day she got dumped.

When Yu Xingchuan had nowhere to live, she rented him an apartment. When he couldn't afford school, she took him abroad to study.

During their six years overseas, rich, handsome men came and went from Su Jiao's life, while Yu Xingchuan remained a constant. He was happy to live off her, and she never let herself get attached.

Until one day, Su Jiao woke up in Yu Xingchuan's bed and looked over at him sitting by the desk, wearing black-rimmed glasses as he worked on his thesis. Suddenly, she didn't want to keep fooling around. So she said to the young man, who still had a clean-cut face, steady shoulders, and an empty bank account:

"Yu Xingchuan, I'm tired of this. Let's call it quits."

He stared blankly for a moment, seeming not to understand her. Then he turned and asked, "Weren't you satisfied last night?"

Su Jiao ran a hand through her waist-length waves and flopped back onto the bed, exhausted. "No. I want to get married. I want to settle down."

"All right. I understand." Yu Xingchuan nodded, put on his coat, and left.

After Yu Xingchuan maxed out his credit cards to buy the diamond ring Su Jiao had recently admired, he returned home to find that she'd left him a check to see him through his doctorate, blocked him everywhere, and disappeared.

Two years later, they found themselves at the same table at a class reunion.

Yu Xingchuan was still wearing the discounted coat she'd bought him years ago, but his doctorate from a top university had made him the center of attention. Sitting in a corner, Su Jiao replied to her parents' messages pressuring her to marry, her feelings a tangled mess. Furiously, she typed: "I might as well skip straight to the end and give you a grandchild!"

She looked up and met Yu Xingchuan's furtive gaze across the room.

Handsome, fit, smart, easy to handle.

Wasn't he the perfect set of genes she'd been looking for?

Su Jiao was tempted.

After the reunion, Su Jiao stopped Yu Xingchuan, who was visibly drunk, and coaxed and tricked him into spending the night with her.

That night, the young man who had always been as gentle as water with her revealed a forceful, ferocious side. Like a starving dog, he clamped down on her shoulder and neck and wouldn't let go. Still trembling with desire, Su Jiao was frightened into leaving a check and hurrying away on legs that felt ready to give out.

Two months later, Su Jiao was looking at the two lines on a pregnancy test when, before she could even celebrate, she spotted Yu Xingchuan in her living room, smiling as he drank tea with her father.

He'd brought extravagant gifts and kept saying that he and Su Jiao had been dating for eight years and that he wanted to formally ask for her hand in marriage.

Seeing her parents' satisfied expressions, Su Jiao was horrified and objected: "Mom, Dad, how can you marry me off to a poor gold-digger?"

Her father frowned. "What gold-digger? We would be marrying above our station if Mr. Yu married you!"

Su Jiao: "...Huh?"

Su Jiao: "Then what was all that time I spent keeping him?"

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine is willful, flirtatious, and socially clueless at first. She genuinely wants to have a child and leave the father behind.

2. The male lead watches from the shadows as the heroine dates several people. Insecure and self-loathing, he's pushed into becoming a scheming homewrecker because he sees no other choice.

3. The heroine gets pregnant before falling in love; the male lead goes from friends-with-benefits to an official partner, and his unrequited love comes true.

Theme: Love isn't fate. It's all up to us.