My One-Night Stand Looks Exactly Like My Late Husband

[Amnesia + Having a Child + Groveling, All the Melodramatic Tropes You Could Want. Extreme Purists, Stay Away]

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One day, Zhao Jiechu received a student's distress call and rushed to a bar. Somehow, he was lured by someone's pheromones and spent the night with a stranger.

When he woke, his back and waist ached. The other person had left him a bank card and a note, warning him not to entertain any improper thoughts.

That one night rendered useless the suppressants Zhao Jiechu had been taking for five years.

With no choice, Zhao Jiechu had to track down that Alpha and demand compensation again.

But he never expected this person to look exactly like the husband who had died in battle five years ago!

Yan Li is the youngest general in the Alliance. He has endured the harshest training, so even being locked up with an Omega in heat shouldn't affect him.

But that doesn't stop people from trying to send someone his way. Once, they actually succeeded.

Yan Li was furious. He left some money and a warning, then walked out.

He never expected that Omega to come knocking and demand he take responsibility. The man was even a widowed Omega with a child!

A tough, outwardly cold but inwardly warm widowed Omega x an Alpha whose combat skills are inversely proportional to his eloquence

Notes: 1. There's a child, who appears in at least half the story.

2. Contains original worldbuilding.

3. The protagonist's suffering isn't caused by the love interest. The angst is emotional, not physical.

4. This is written to suit my personal tastes. Don't lecture me about morals. If you insult me, I'll quietly shuffle away.

[Check out the completed January sweet romance in my column, The CEO Falls for a Paper Doll]

At work, Chu Chen is seen as a workaholic. Nothing but work seems to interest him.

Then one day, his assistant discovered that he was playing a game.

They didn't know exactly what kind of game it was, only that their boss, Mr. Chu, bought clothes for the little character in it and changed its outfits.

Could it be a dress-up game? Something like Love Nikki?

The assistant wondered.

But that didn't seem right. The assistant also saw Chu Chen leave the game open to one side while he worked, glancing over at it now and then. It even looked like he was talking to someone in there.

At last, the assistant figured it out: it was a dating game! Who would have thought their boss, a man with no worldly desires and nothing in his head but work, would play a dating game?

Chu Chen downloaded a game on a whim. It was supposed to let players choose an identity and experience a different life.

He created a little character in the game named An Xianyi. He was adorable and fun to be around.

For the first time, Chu Chen found himself emotionally invested in a virtual character.

He couldn't help checking on what An Xianyi was doing and hoping he was happy.

The game offered a great deal of freedom. An Xianyi seemed like a living person. He could chat with Chu Chen through dialogue boxes, had his own preferences, like disliking work in the orchard, and even deliberately hid so Chu Chen would have to find him.

Then one day, An Xianyi vanished from the game. Chu Chen checked for every kind of bug, but couldn't get him to load again.

Yet in the real world, someone appeared who looked just like the An Xianyi from the game.

He looked exactly like the one who had disappeared from Chu Chen's phone, and his personality was the same, too.

A restrained love interest who is healed by the protagonist every day x an adorable, guileless protagonist who doesn't realize it

[Also check out my upcoming January enemies-to-lovers melodrama, After Losing My Memory, I Got a Boyfriend]

On the first day of his second year of high school, Zhou Huai skipped class and passed by the basketball court. Someone accidentally hit him with a basketball. When he opened his eyes, he was in a hospital, and he had a boyfriend.

His boyfriend told him he was now twenty-six and had amnesia.

The boyfriend was also the person who had hit him with the basketball back then.

His boyfriend said he'd relentlessly pursued Zhou Huai for a year, and he couldn't use amnesia as an excuse to go back on that now.

Zhou Huai felt a little embarrassed, but diligently played the part of a devoted boyfriend. Before long, he fell for his boyfriend all over again.

Then he learned from other people that their relationship wasn't what his boyfriend had described.

He hadn't had a secret crush on his boyfriend in high school, and they hadn't reunited at work, where he'd pursued him for a year.

In reality, the two of them were sworn enemies.

Zhou Huai and He Qiuchao were famous for not getting along in high school. The former was a pampered young master, while the latter was an impoverished student with nothing to his name.

They'd figured they'd finish fighting in high school and go their separate ways, but eight years later, the poor student had become a famous actor and the young master had become a company CEO. And yet, somehow, they still couldn't stand each other.

Zhou Huai always managed to outdo He Qiuchao, making him grind his teeth in secret. Eventually, he found a way to get under Zhou Huai's skin.

When Zhou Huai suddenly lost his memory after a car accident, He Qiuchao lied and told him they were a couple, and that Zhou Huai had been the one to pursue him.

Zhou Huai believed him. He Qiuchao was delighted.

But eighteen-year-old Zhou Huai was nothing like the cool, aloof, poker-faced CEO Zhou had become at twenty-six.

He asked He Qiuchao why he wasn't coming home and why rumors linked him to someone else.

Did he not love him anymore?

He Qiuchao wanted to laugh. Once Zhou Huai got his memory back, he'd be so ashamed he'd jump off a building.

But He Qiuchao suddenly began to fear Zhou Huai recovering his memories.

Every time they hugged, every time they kissed, every time they made love, he was afraid Zhou Huai would suddenly push him away.

Then call him disgusting.

A cool, proud CEO protagonist before losing his memory, prickly and blunt afterward

X

A famous actor who looks like a gentleman but is stubborn and has little sense of morality

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Theme: Never forget the one you love.