Shuyu's Allure

Su Mingwei saw the man tied up hand and foot in the secret room. Her father had died of illness, and her cousin, who had married into the family as a live-in son-in-law in name only, had died unexpectedly. To protect the Su family's fortune, her mother's plan was for her to find a man and borrow his seed.

Xie Heqing had just stepped off the boat when someone clubbed him unconscious. When he woke, a woman was leaning against him. Rage made his eyes bloodshot. Which local thug would dare humiliate him like this, when he was about to take office as county magistrate?

Unfortunately, he'd been drugged. His whole body was weak and his mouth was gagged, so all he could do was mumble. He tried desperately to make out the woman on top of him, but couldn't see her clearly. His consciousness was hazy, and all he could hear was the woman repeatedly saying something about borrowing something and apologizing.

He didn't know how many days had passed when he woke again in the wilderness. There was no woman in sight. If not for the faintly painful scratches on his body, he might have thought it was all a dream.

With no clues at all, he assumed it had been a hallucination brought on by the exhaustion of his journey. Then one day, a woman brought a case before him in court, accusing her uncle of trying to seize her family's fortune. The sound of her weeping was exactly the same as in his dream. His mind exploded, and he remembered that what the woman had said in his ear was that she wanted to borrow his seed.

Su Mingwei never imagined she would meet this man again. He was the father of her child. Her mother had said he was a poor outsider, that she had paid him off to keep quiet, and that they would never meet again in this life.

This man, staring at her from the courtroom with fire in his eyes... No, he won't recognize me!

Theme: Never yield to hardship.