Confessing the Pregnancy

What did Unadorned Sword Lord hate most when others brought it up? Naturally, the fact that he had been stuck at the peak of Spirit Transformation for three hundred years without advancing an inch. Sword Venerable Mingxiao's remark was a one-hit kill.

Of course, only because the two had a good relationship would Sword Venerable Mingxiao use this matter to tease him. Unadorned Sword Lord felt a little stifled and pointed outside. "Get lost."

Sword Venerable Mingxiao took two steps toward the door, then seemed to remember something and returned. "Oh, right. I recall that you keep several Silver Sand Fish in the lotus pond outside your sleeping hall."

Unadorned Sword Lord immediately eyed him warily. "What are you trying to do? I painstakingly fished those Silver Sand Fish out of a secret realm. It took me over a hundred years to breed enough to fill that pond."

"Silver Sand Fish have tender, boneless flesh, and their meat nourishes the body and enriches the blood. They're perfect for fish soup. Give me a few."

Unadorned Sword Lord gritted his teeth. "Those are fish I've raised for a hundred years, and you want to turn them into fish soup!?"

Sword Venerable Mingxiao looked thoughtful. "I recently acquired a book of Sword Venerable Yushan's notes on the Sword Dao..."

Sword Venerable Yushan had been a sword cultivator of the Heartless Sword Dao in the cultivation world. He later perished after failing his ascension, though that had been a thousand years ago—Unadorned Sword Lord had not even been born then. Since so few cultivators practiced the Heartless Sword Dao, these notes recording Sword Venerable Yushan's cultivation insights were exceedingly precious to someone like Unadorned Sword Lord, who cultivated the Heartless Sword Dao.

Unadorned Sword Lord's expression immediately made a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn. "We're fellow disciples with centuries of friendship between us. Aren't they just a few fish? Take as many as you want! If they aren't enough, just ask me for more!"

"But haven't you already abstained from eating?" Unadorned Sword Lord's gaze was like a searchlight as it fixed on Sword Venerable Mingxiao. "So who are you making this fish soup for?"

Sword Venerable Mingxiao said nothing. He stuffed the notes into Unadorned Sword Lord's hands, turned, and vanished from the great hall. Looking toward where he had disappeared, Unadorned Sword Lord called out, "Don't fish them all out! Leave a few for me to keep breeding!"

While Sword Venerable Mingxiao was catching fish, on the other side, at Clear Snow Peak, Song Zhizhi had just changed clothes when she suddenly sensed something strange about the spiritual power in her body. At first, her meridians felt swollen and her dantian taut. Then the spiritual energy around her poured into her meridians at a terrifying speed, only to rapidly drain away again. Song Zhizhi hurriedly sat down to meditate and regulate her breathing, only to discover that most of the spiritual power she lost was flowing into her lower abdomen, where the child inside her absorbed it.

Mother and child were connected at heart. Song Zhizhi sensed her child's emotions; the child seemed to be in some discomfort.

"Mother... hungry..." Song Zhizhi seemed to hear the child's voice.

Song Zhizhi's breath caught. Panic rose in her heart, and she felt that something might have gone wrong with the child. But she was not a medical cultivator and had no idea what to do.

Xie Xiuji's figure flashed through her mind, but she remembered that Xie Xiuji was not a medical cultivator either. Contacting him would be useless.

She instead took out a communication stone to contact Liu Changfei, her voice trembling. "Feifei, where are you? I think something is wrong with my body!"

Author's note:

This is a sweet story, not an angsty one. Neither the female lead nor the child will be harmed.

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Yuan Chu transmigrated into a hugely popular xianxia novel from many years ago and became the original wife, a stumbling block on the male protagonist's path toward pursuing true love.

In the original novel, the male lead fell in love with a mortal woman while descending to the human realm to undergo a tribulation. After the tribulation ended, he brought that mortal woman back to the Heavenly Court and elevated her to the position of concubine.

Because the original owner could not tolerate even a grain of sand in her eyes, she relentlessly targeted and persecuted the female lead. In the end, the male lead stripped her of her immortal bones and cast her down from the Immortal Execution Platform, where her soul scattered and she vanished forever, never to be reborn.

Knowing the plot, Yuan Chu wanted nothing to do with the trope of two women fighting over one man. She only wanted to quietly be a good-for-nothing who lived by eating and waiting for death—

a salted fish

second-generation immortal. Yet unexpectedly, a strategy

system

bound itself to her. Its target was—the fair-skinned, beautiful, long-legged beauty whom that scumbag had brought back from the mortal realm.

Yuan Chu had been unwilling at first, but the system offered far too much. So she diligently began raising the female lead's favorability—when the female lead was ill, she brewed medicine; when the female lead was hungry, she brought meals; when the female lead could not sleep, she coaxed her to sleep. At last, she raised the favorability to ninety-nine.

On the night she kicked the scumbag aside, Yuan Chu went to celebrate with the "female lead." She happened to encounter the fair-skinned beauty emerging from the bathhouse. Beneath his loose sleeping robe was a flat chest and eight firm abdominal muscles.

Yuan Chu: ...

Who could tell her why the fair-skinned, beautiful, kind, and delicate "female lead" from the original novel had turned into a man!?

System: Ahem, the intelligence was incorrect. This person isn't the female lead, but the tragic second male lead from the original novel. The good news is that his favorability has already maxed out.

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For certain reasons, Wen Xi had infiltrated his mortal enemy's residence and assumed the identity of the man's concubine. He had never expected his enemy's wife to have some screw loose and fuss over him with warmth and concern, showering him with attentions.

When he was ill, she brewed medicine—though it was medicine to warm the womb and improve one's complexion;

When he was hungry, she brought him food—though it was leftover pastries she had already eaten;

When he could not sleep, she soothed him to sleep—though not a single note of the tune she sang was in key.

Wen Xi: She's treating me so considerately. She must have improper designs on me!

Still, for the sake of her being so virtuous and capable, he reluctantly permitted Yuan Chu's disrespectful behavior toward him.

[Reading Guide]

1. 1V1, both virgins, no BL, BG romance.

2. Not a traditional powerful-female-lead xianxia story, nor a wish-fulfillment story. The female lead is a salted fish, the system is useless, and there are no cheat abilities.

3. The male lead looks innocent but is secretly dark. He does not have an upright personality, but neither is he some great villain bent on destroying heaven and earth.

Confessing the Pregnancy

The instant Liu Changfei received Song Zhizhi's voice transmission, she rushed to Clear Snow Peak at tremendous speed. She found Song Zhizhi pale-faced, sitting cross-legged on the ground and absorbing spiritual energy, yet the spiritual power within her body was still continuously declining.

Startled, Liu Changfei hurried forward to examine Song Zhizhi.

The moment her fingers touched Song Zhizhi's pulse, Liu Changfei furrowed her brows in confusion.

Seeing Liu Changfei's expression, Song Zhizhi's heart sank. She grabbed Liu Changfei's hand, her fingertips turning faintly white from the force of her grip. Her lips trembled as she asked in helpless panic, "The child..."

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Transmigrated into a Book

Sweet Romance

Time Travel and Rebirth Romance

Tu Yanyan

Amnesia Trope