After Becoming a Mom with No Labor Pains, My Archrival Shows Up with a Child and Demands I Take Responsibility

[Baby from the Future Can Hear Inner Thoughts] [Burnt-Offerings Regret] [Two Powerful Leads] [Wild Imagination]

Guan Wen Yuan, the legitimate daughter of a general's household, has been frail and sickly since childhood, and is forced to bind herself to a system that promises her the future position of empress.

At her betrothal banquet, two adorable children who call her Mother save her from danger, and claim that the Deputy Minister of the Court of Judicial Review is their father.

What?

She gets to be a mother without the pain of childbirth? And the children's father is her father's sworn rival!

Heaven wants her dead!

To save her father and investigate the culprit, she has no choice but to turn to Cui Jing Ming, her enemy at the Ministry of Justice, and work with him.

But then war breaks out, and her father, the Marshal, is gravely wounded and near death. Guan Wen Yuan resolves to take her place in the Eastern Palace.

At a palace banquet, the princes and young noblemen compete to show off their talents, but the cool and aloof powerful minister lures her into his trap, step by step.

He twines his fingers around the jade pendant she tied on him herself and says gently, "A Yuan, you said you admired me deeply and wanted to spend your days and nights with me... Why are you marrying someone else?"

Looking at the jade-faced young lord before her, Guan Wen Yuan recalls the trembling sword scabbard that night: "At midnight last night... he caressed your portrait thirty-seven times..."

A sickly black-lotus beauty who toys with people's hearts x an upright, restrained minister with a hidden obsession