Contract Wife Runs Off With a Baby; the Crown Prince Loses His Mind

Contract Wife Runs Off Pregnant, and the Crown Prince Goes Mad

Sweet-and-bitter · Power imbalance · Marriage first, love later · Chasing wife to the crematorium

Wen Yue had been Fu Chengyan’s contract wife for three years.

She was perfectly sensible about it: no jealousy, no fighting for attention, no prying.

She cooperated with her marital duties; when he was busy, she disappeared.

She even took the initiative to go to the mountains to teach as a volunteer, waiting for him to sign the papers and let her go.

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As the contract was about to expire, he chased her there in the rain and pinned her against the bed frame in the dormitory.

“Grandma wants a great-grandson.”

She believed him. Believed his nonsense.

Until the truth came crashing down:

His childhood sweetheart could not have children, so Wen Yue would bear them instead.

All those old matters in the Wen family were a scheme.

She tore through every bit of ugliness and vanished from the world with the baby in her belly that he did not know existed.

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Later, the entire Beijing circle watched the crown prince lose his mind.

After searching all over the country, he finally blocked her in a small town in the south, his eyes bloodshot.

“Running? Wen Yue, you damn well have some nerve!”

Wen Yue shrank into the corner, red-eyed as she begged him to let go.

He seized her wrist, his voice hoarse:

“Let you go? Back when you climbed into my bed and forced a marriage, did you let me go?”

Wen Yue’s inner monologue:

The first time really was me climbing into bed. Fair enough.

But the countless times after that...

It was clearly you who refused to let me go.

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Reading note:

1. A sweet-and-sour, slightly angsty story with emotional push and pull; early misunderstandings are resolved in bed.

2. Neither lead is perfect; one is arrogant, the other a little bitter. They both grow later.

3. She does not run off with a baby right away; first they do enough things to be able to have one.

4. In the early stage the heroine is constrained and enduring; later the hero goes insane from suffering.