Gu Jiu’an, known throughout Yancheng as the formidable Ninth Master Gu, was considered a bad omen after eight children in the Gu family died in succession. He was moody and merciless, the sort of man people feared and ghosts trembled before. Yet no one knew how fragile he was inside. He craved affection and had severe germophobia, and even the smallest kindness from someone could quietly move him. When he first met Du Qiansheng, a misunderstanding led him to mistake her for a woman wearing fake designer goods, while she thought he was a pervert. Neither expected that from then on, their fates would become tangled together, taking them from chaotic bickering to tender affection. There’s a saying in Yancheng about Ninth Master’s three rules for spoiling his wife: he never so much as looks at any woman other than his wife; whatever his wife says is an imperial decree; and anyone who crosses his wife is his sworn enemy. For a while, the whole city was on edge. One day, someone asked, “Miss Du, as Ninth Master’s beloved wife, how do you feel?” Du Qiansheng leaned mischievously against Gu Jiu’an. “How do I feel? Great. I dare to imagine anything. I’m going to train him to be a husband who comes running whenever I call, and round up every last person who bullied me before…”
