I Taught Him to Court, But He Chose Me

In the Arctic Tieling Nature Reserve, PhD candidate Xiyao, desperate to save her thesis, personally teaches a lone male albatross courtship calls and the dance of fire. The moment he masters it, he displays it right in front of her. Then a call from her advisor reveals the truth—he was never an arowana, but a descendant of the ancient dragons, mythical solitary creatures. Their courtship ritual is to abduct their mate back to the nest and keep her locked away until she lays eggs. Now it's too late to run—claws tear through the roof, and he takes human form to carry her off. In the nest, scales grow along her back, and in a fevered dream she returns twelve years: she fell from a cable car and was saved by a young ancient dragon, who promised to come back every summer—yet now he has lost his memories. He never came to Tieling for the arowana at all. After they become a couple, she turns the tables and imprisons him. Her thesis causes a sensation in academia, and the ancient dragon descendants finally gain legal status as a sapient species. She opens the iron cage, drops to one knee, and proposes. The baby hatches—a black-haired, round-eared human infant tossed into the bathtub by his biological father, instantly unfurling a pair of dripping wet wings.