After I Accidentally Sent a Meme to My Arranged Husband

June 25 update: 5,000+ words, plus a bonus chapter.

Please favorite my contemporary romance upcoming title, Mistaking My Crush for a Scumbag, and fantasy upcoming title, After Giving Up on Saving the Villain [Double Rebirth]. The blurbs appear after this story's blurb, with direct links in the announcement below.

#A bickering couple who are always at odds, she flirts and he panics, live on air

[An ultra-skilled dog trainer of a CEO × a lovesick male race car driver whose mouth is harder than a rock]

On the day she married her nemesis, Zhu Yu clearly remembered him telling her:

"I'm not going to make your life easy!"

She couldn't be bothered with the childish idiot. After they married, they treated each other with mutual respect (and constant barbs).

Until one day, she accidentally sent him a meme.

He held up his phone, eyes red, and confronted her.

But all she noticed was the contact name at the top: [A-Yu]

Simple, yet intimate.

She began to suspect the guy had feelings for her.

She asked his older brother about it.

His brother said, "You didn't know? He cried and begged our parents all night until they switched your arranged marriage from me to him."

As it turned out, the nemesis who had made her life chaotic for nearly twenty years

had been secretly in love with her for years.

That very night, she changed into a black lace nightgown and sat in his lap.

"Want to fall in love with me, my husband in name and law?~"

Chi Yanzhou hated the well-behaved girl next door.

Whenever she appeared, the entire world's attention went straight to her.

Even his...

One day, his parents called him while he was away training

and told him to attend the wedding of his older brother and Zhu Yu.

???

Who gave that woman permission to ruin his brother's life?

She could only ruin his!

An arranged marriage?

Why not do it himself?

That way, he could "bully" that bad woman every day.

Cook for her so she'd lose the joy of eating at restaurants forever!

Hand-wash her clothes so she couldn't decide what to wear the next day!!

Dismiss all the housekeepers so she would live entirely under his control!!!

What?

You're saying this is called love?

No way.

He merely planned to "bully" Zhu Yu through poverty and wealth, health and sickness, success and failure,

to stay by her side,

right up until the very last moment of his life...

[Blurb Two]

Zhu Yu bought a book called The Dog-Training Guide.

Lesson One: Teach your dog to protect its owner.

Pretend to be drunk after a contract meeting, wrap your arms around his neck, and nuzzle him. "Hubby, he was mean to me~"

Lesson Two: The right reward will make your dog more obedient.

Put on black stockings, kiss him, and tell him, "Good job."

Lesson Three: Make your dog accept you as its owner.

In front of reporters, smile and put him on the spot. "Young Master Chi, does an arranged marriage count as being married?"

His ears turned red. "It does, doesn't it..."

Just when she thought he was about to crack,

Chi Yanzhou simply and decisively signed the divorce papers

and vanished without a trace...

Two years later, during the comeback interview of the six-time WRC champion,

a trending topic popped up on the screen: [Zhu Yin Entertainment's owner may have wedding bells in her future]

The photo showed Zhu Yu in a wedding dress, smiling at someone else.

That night, someone caught sight of

the once-proud man, who looked like a god, a scar across his face,

kneeling before his ex-wife and clutching her hand humbly.

His voice was hoarse and breaking with sobs:

"You want a dog? I'll be your dog. I'll always obey."

"Please..."

"Don't leave me, Master..."

Beneath the shadow where he couldn't see, Zhu Yu curled her lips into a smile.

Lesson Four: When your dog misbehaves, give him a reason to feel threatened...

#Shocking! Six-time champion secretly acts like his wife's dog!

#Countdown to the tsundere's total breakdown

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads have only been with each other, happy ending. One supporting couple includes a female character who has had other partners and a male character who has not.

2. A sweet bedtime read, featuring a flirtatious dog trainer and her daily training sessions.

3. The plot serves the romance.

4. The male lead's racing career is entirely fictional. Please don't compare it to real life. The author knows little about racing, so please share any corrections.

Upcoming title: Mistaking My Crush for a Scumbag

[A female lead who's a witty online flirt but a timid pushover in real life × a male lead who's aloof at first but wins himself over, then develops an insatiable need for physical intimacy]

1.

Jiang Rancheng's hopelessly lovestruck best friend had gotten dumped again.

At least this time, it wasn't one of those breakups where they cried and cursed all night, then said "I'll love you forever" the next morning.

This time, the guy had cheated her out of money and cheated on her.

"Wait, he stole your money and cheated on you?!"

And the hopeless romantic had even marked the money as a voluntary gift.

Jiang Rancheng was speechless. She got hold of the scumbag's WeChat.

[I dreamed about you all night.]

She paired it with a heavily edited photo.

She refused to believe it would be difficult. As a top-notch relationship advisor on her social feed and a relationship influencer with a million followers on a certain platform,

a little scumbag would be a piece of cake.

The next day, the scumbag deleted her...

2.

Jiang Rancheng refused to give up. The more setbacks she faced, the more determined she became.

The scumbag showed his true colors again, then added her back and showered her with concern.

[Eat properly. I would be worried sick if you got hungry.]

[It's windy today. Put on another layer.]

[I'm usually bad with words, but when I'm talking to you, they just come out. You're so wonderful, I can't help myself.]

Jiang Rancheng rolled her eyes.

Ha, it's all just talk!

If I ask him for money, he'll definitely make an excuse and run!

[But the coat is so expensive. I can't afford it, so I guess I'll just freeze.]

3, 2, 1

Sure enough, no reply.

A moment later, a five-figure transfer came through.

[Is this enough? Ask me for more if it isn't.]

Wait, this scumbag doesn't sound anything like the guy my best friend described.

3.

After chatting for two months, Jiang Rancheng realized the scumbag was gentle and considerate.

He was nothing like the stingy, arrogant guy who only knew how to emotionally manipulate her friend.

She was more and more confused. Having gotten her friend's money back through "scamming" him, she planned to stop. Just as she hesitated over what to say,

the scumbag beat her to it: [I'm sorry. I can't keep chatting with you. You deserve someone better.]

Wasn't this a little too... easy?

Not long afterward, she saw a familiar face on a dating show for ordinary people filmed at her company.

He was working hard to cultivate a warm, caring persona, drawing a huge female following.

She exposed him to his face, but he looked completely baffled.

Then she watched her own love interest walk out of the observation room:

"I was the better person I meant."

"Let me introduce myself properly. I'm Shen Yinien, and I've liked you for a long time."

Wait, are you saying I mistook the guy for someone else, but ended up winning over my crush?

[Male Lead's Perspective]

When Shen Yinien was a child, his father had only just started finding success when women began throwing themselves at him in droves.

His father couldn't resist temptation and abandoned Shen Yinien and his mother.

From then on, he believed that any woman who approached him first was no good.

When the girl messaged him for the first time, he deleted her immediately.

He knew those lines all too well. They were always after his money.

Then he ran into the girl in person.

She was nothing like the flirty woman she'd been online. When she spoke to him, she seemed like a startled rabbit.

Later, he realized she might have mistaken him for someone else.

So she flirted with one man online and teased another in person...

Was she really a player?

But would a player cross half the city to take care of him when he was sick?

Would she put on a mascot costume to cheer him up when he was unhappy?

Would she collect every achievement he'd earned in high school like a little fairy?

Whatever. If she was a player, so be it.

If she was after his money, he had plenty.

If she was fickle, he'd drive everyone else away from her and leave himself as the only one...

Upcoming title: After Giving Up on Saving the Villain [Double Rebirth]

[A laid-back but resilient, proud little ray of sunshine vs. a frail but effortlessly cool, lovesick lunatic]

Song Zhimiao had spent her life seeking a peaceful existence. Then she picked up that villainous Demon God, and all her hopes were shattered.

She gave him her whole heart, searched for herbs for him, and lifted the curse on his heart. In return, on their wedding day, he offered up her spiritual bones to resurrect the Goddess.

As her soul was torn apart, she looked at him through the Goddess's body.

He wore his wedding robes, his expression indifferent, and ignored her pleas.

And the artifact used to exchange their souls was one she had forged together with him.

When she opened her eyes again, Song Zhimiao had returned to the day she saved him.

A thing calling itself the Villain Self-Saving System came to her, and only then did she learn that she was merely a cannon-fodder female supporting character in a wish-fulfillment novel. Because her bones were exceptional, she was destined to become a vessel for the Goddess's resurrection.

And in that novel, her husband was one of the Goddess's admirers.

Song Zhimiao looked at the wounded man before her, her eyes as indifferent as his.

A man like this? She was better off without him!

After being reborn, Song Zhimiao had just one goal: protect her peaceful life.

With the System's help, she broke their contract, removed her spiritual bones, and destroyed the artifact, all so she could have nothing more to do with gods or demons.

But Shi Lian began to act strangely.

The cold-hearted man from her previous life stubbornly followed her around this time, cooking for her, taking a blade for her, staying up all night with red-rimmed eyes when she was hurt, and asking if she was in pain...

Song Zhimiao found it ridiculous. What was he pretending to be so devoted for?

She wasn't the fool she'd been in her previous life.

Until that scene played out again:

The altar, the Goddess, the exact same setting.

She was bound in place by an invisible force, watching the cultivators slowly approach her.

She closed her eyes.

As expected, this life wouldn't be any different.

But then she heard the sound of flesh being pierced.

When she opened her eyes, a sword tip protruded from the Goddess's chest.

And Shi Lian's hand gripped its hilt...

He staggered and fell to his knees before her, his face deathly pale and blood seeping from the corner of his lips. He cautiously reached out, as if afraid he might break something, and caressed her cheek.

"Miaomiao," he rasped, his voice nearly breaking. "In this life, I won't let anyone hurt you again."

"Not even me."

[Male Lead's Perspective]

The first thing Shi Lian did after being reborn was find the person scheming behind the scenes and hack them to pieces.

The second was to make the wedding dress his wife had spent half a month embroidering in her previous life, working day and night. He imagined her wearing it again.

He wiped away the tears at the corners of his eyes and looked at his beloved, sunbathing in the courtyard with a kitten. Then he walked over and tucked a golden hairpin into her bun.

"My lady, let's go pick out things for the wedding at the market in a little while..."

Reading Guide:

* One-on-one romance, both leads have only been with each other, happy ending.

* This isn't a cheating story. The male lead has never loved anyone else, and the two leads have a misunderstanding.

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