Future Husband, Claim Me in Advance

Jiang Man was in poor health but lucky. He was born into a wealthy family, and right after college, his family found him a good husband to take care of him.

His husband was quiet, but looked after him in every way. Jiang Man had already been spoiled rotten, and his husband turned him into a little emperor. He'd only eat shrimp if someone peeled it for him, his socks had to be warmed up in winter, and every day's outfit was picked out as a matching set...

But he didn't get to enjoy this life for long. One day, Jiang Man woke up and found himself back in the summer when he was eighteen.

At eighteen, he had no husband.

Without his husband, nothing went right. Jiang Man spent a week clinging to his family's heels and complaining.

His family looked troubled. "Sweetheart, who's Shen Tingyu?"

Jiang Man wilted. He hadn't met Shen Tingyu until after college, and nobody knew him yet. He could only look for him slowly.

Halfway through summer vacation, Jiang Man was sent to his grandfather's home in the countryside.

On his first day, he chased cats and dogs, climbed walls and trees, and then got stuck sitting in a tree. Just as he was worrying about what to do, someone happened to pass underneath.

Jiang Man stared at the person, his eyes slowly widening.

"Shen Tingyu!"

Shen Tingyu looked up at the sound. Before he could get a good look, a dark shape leaped down from the tree. Instinctively, he reached out to catch it and was bowled over by the impact.

Clinging to Shen Tingyu's shoulders, Jiang Man had tears in his eyes. "I finally found you. Husband!"

Shen Tingyu looked at the young man in his arms. "...?"

*

Jiang Man moved in with his future husband ahead of time.

But his young husband didn't know how to take care of people yet, so Jiang Man had to teach him little by little: buy fruit-flavored toothpaste, reply to messages one at a time, hold him around the waist while they slept, apply cuticle oil after trimming his nails... Fortunately, Shen Tingyu was a quick learner.

In some areas, he was especially good at applying what he'd learned.

Buried in the pillow, Jiang Man sobbed, still correcting him. "No, you shouldn't be so rough."

Shen Tingyu rubbed his thumb over the adorable dip in Jiang Man's lower back, his Adam's apple bobbing.

"I'm not being rough."

"Baby, teach me a little more."

*

On the day the company went public, Shen Tingyu's partner and friend asked why he'd given up on further studies and chosen to start a business.

Shen Tingyu replied, "So I could support my little sweetheart."

His beloved was fussy and precious, and it took a lot of money to keep him happy.

His friend clicked his tongue. "How did you end up with that little tyrant?"

Shen Tingyu replied to the little tyrant's messages one by one. "He said he knew me, knew I had a mole on my butt, and wanted to be with me."

Friend: ???

[Husband~ I want a little pudding from the school gate.]

Shen Tingyu replied [Okay] and got up to leave.

"Where are you going?"

"To buy pudding."

His friend laughed in exasperation, unwilling to give up. "...So you really do have a mole?"

Shen Tingyu curled his lips. "No."

-

Theme: Loving and being loved are both happiness