My Husband Doesn't Want a Divorce

My next book is The Succubus Doesn't Want to Be Chaste Anymore. A daring, take-charge adopted succubus daughter x a cold, celibate duke who adopted her. Please add it to your favorites!

Story blurb:

Shen Wanyi married Liu Qingyan at first because she had no other choice.

But as time went on, she realized that Liu Qingyan was a gentle, considerate man, warm as jade. Sometimes he even acted like a puppy and begged for her attention. Aside from getting insanely jealous whenever she mentioned her late husband, he had almost no flaws.

So, naturally, their pretend marriage became real.

That is, until Liang Yue, who had miraculously survived, returned and told her that Liu Qingyan had been the one to orchestrate his death.

On the day she asked for a divorce, Liu Qingyan shed his usual mask of tenderness. He restrained her on the bed and repeatedly proved that only he knew how to please her best.

He even threatened her: every time she brought up divorce, he would make her do it with him one more time.

Shen Wanyi was so thoroughly worn out that she no longer dared to say the word divorce lightly.

But she didn't just sit and wait for things to happen. After sending her daughter back to her family home, she prepared to go find Liang Yue and reunite with him on her own.

That night, as planned, she waited for the man to fall asleep, then headed for the carriage she had prepared in advance. But the moment she lifted the curtain and the cold night wind swept inside, all the blood in her body froze.

Liu Qingyan, who should have been fast asleep, was sitting calmly inside the carriage. His robes fell in soft folds, his expression serene. He merely lifted his eyes to look at her, as if he had been waiting for her for a long time.

"Awan, it took everything I had to make you my wife. How could I ever let you go?"

*

When Liu Qingyan was young, he was kidnapped and sold to a brothel, where he endured endless abuse. It was also there that he was forced to learn all kinds of ways to please wealthy patrons.

The thought of those skills disgusted him.

During his first escape attempt, a girl chasing a thief accidentally grabbed him instead. She held his chin and examined him closely. Once she realized he wasn't the person she was looking for, she let go.

He should have simply walked away.

But then he saw her wipe and wipe the fingers that had touched his face, then tell her servant to throw them away. A strange impulse drove him to pick up the handkerchief she had discarded and take it with him.

After that, the girl's cold, disgusted gaze often came to him in the middle of the night. The handkerchief she had casually thrown away was always left crumpled and ruined in his hands.

When they met again, she was already married, and he was no longer a lowly runaway slave. He thought those absurd fantasies would finally come to an end.

But they didn't.

He couldn't help following her every move. He even spied on her daily life with her husband.

He didn't understand. Why was she so cold to him in his dreams, yet in real life she was always laughing in her husband's arms?

He wrestled with that question for years without finding an answer. Eventually, he stopped wondering.

Wouldn't every problem be solved if he became her husband himself?

Later, he finally became her husband in truth.

All the things he had once despised and tossed aside as worthless, he revisited and put to use on his Awan.

Content warning: The female lead is not a virgin; all male leads are virgins. (Male lead 1 only learned how to serve people at a brothel. He escaped before serving anyone, and is pure in body and mind.)

P.S. Both male leads are main characters. There just wasn't room to include the other one in the blurb.

My next Western fantasy novel is The Succubus Doesn't Want to Be Chaste Anymore. Please add it to your favorites!

Blurb:

Before discovering that secret, Linae had always held Lord Auvilius in the highest regard, with an admiration that was almost sacred.

He was a duke of the Elvia Empire, a priest of the Aotes Church, and the benefactor who had taken her in and raised her after finding her on the verge of death.

Though he had always treated her with a gentle yet distant manner, and made her drink all sorts of unpleasant medicine every day, whenever Linae had something nice, he was the first person she wanted to share it with.

Until one day, she happened to overhear an argument between him and his younger sister.

"A test subject should act like one, shouldn't it? Did you think raising that filthy little wretch as a human would prove what a noble person you are, Brother?"

"Ivna, I expect you to treat Linae with respect."

"Come now, dear brother. You can fool other people, but don't fool yourself. Don't I know what kind of person you are?"

"You just want to turn that monster into a human to win more support in the election, don't you? Stop dressing yourself up as some kind of savior who's here to save the world!"

"If that little wretch hadn't survived her first years of childhood, you wouldn't have kept her around, would you? She still has to get through adolescence and adulthood. If she can't make it through those two transformations, your plan will go up in smoke!"

"…"

Linae didn't want to think about anything else she had heard. The rest was all an argument over whether she should be locked back in a cage.

Linae knew she was a succubus. She had wondered why her horns, tail, and wings still hadn't grown in, but it had never occurred to her that Lord Auvilius was behind it.

After that day, she lay awake in her room, turning it over in her mind. If Lord Auvilius had taken her in with ulterior motives, then surely she had every right to stop obeying him?

Why should a succubus like her have to become human just to satisfy Lord Auvilius's selfish desires? She ought to be a succubus, and a proper one at that.

*

Auvilius Kane had never imagined that Linae's final transformation would fail because he had lost control.

Auvilius Kane was a complete madman!

Locked to the bed once again, Linae felt Auvilius gently caress her belly. The next generation of their family would soon be growing inside it.

He whispered in her ear, his voice tender as a lover's. "Linae, I raised you. You can only stay by my side for the rest of your life."

P.S. 1. This isn't a traditional succubus story. The female lead doesn't feed on life force.

2. The romance begins after the female lead comes of age.

Theme: Don't do things that hurt the people you love.