The Grudge-Bearing Husband

Ji Shen and Su Xuexing are the celebrated perfect couple of the capital. He is an upright civil official valued by the Emperor, while she is a young, accomplished female official at the Bureau of Stargazing who can divine the heavens. They treat each other with respect, enjoy a harmonious marriage, and seem to have it all. Now and then, Ji Shen feels that something is amiss. He finds the thought amusing and chides himself for being suspicious. That is, until his wife brings a man back from Jiangnan. Little by little, he feels Xuexing changing. She becomes increasingly protective of that man. They talk about hand-chickens, orchid friends, and other things he cannot understand. They chatter away as if no one else is around, and even argue with him over it. But he cannot find any proof that Xuexing has fallen for someone else, so he can only watch her change with bitter resentment. Then, one day, he stands outside their room and sees the two of them embracing, making plans to leave the capital. Ji Shen holds back again and again. In the end, he does not barge in or give Xuexing the chance to ask for a divorce. Instead, he secretly sows discord and drives the man away. Just as he is on the verge of succeeding, he sees Xuexing and the man vanish together in a flash of white light. No one can find them alive, and no bodies are ever found. Ji Shen waits and waits, until his hair turns white and he is buried beneath the earth. Xuexing never comes back. But after he dies and opens his eyes again, he finds himself back on the day his wife returned from Jiangnan with that shameless bastard. 1. The female lead and the male supporting character have traveled here from another world. 2. Both leads are sexually inexperienced. 3. The female lead does not cheat while married. Please add my next book to your favorites: The Survival Guide to Restricted Fiction First: Stay away from plants with tentacles, vines, or similar forms. Second: Don’t get curious about strange noises in a room or objects with distorted shapes. Third: Keep your distance from all humans with striking looks and enviable figures. Li Mi was born into a restricted novel and became the fifth princess of a magical world. To avoid becoming part of their games, she worked diligently and lived cautiously until she turned eighteen. Oh, a rather unfortunate age. On her first day as an adult at the Intermediate Academy of Magic, Li Mi surveys her class but cannot find a single normal person she can get close to. Then she spots a man with glasses and an aversion to germs, huddled in a corner. He wears a black robe like a religious devotee, along with a cross and white gloves. His bangs hide most of his face, and he looks timid and insecure. Li Mi chooses him as her desk mate and tentatively shakes his hand. He glances at her through his lenses, a friendly smile tugging at his lips, and quickly touches her soft palm. But after school, she finds the white gloves in the trash. Time flies. Li Mi believes she has found someone like herself in this world, and she and Eli grow closer and closer. She starts encouraging him to be cheerful and outgoing, and to bravely embrace the world. Eli is always restrained and composed, careful in everything he does. He only smiles at her, watching her, watching her, watching her... Li Mi lets down her guard completely. Until an accident knocks his glasses off. A gigantic black dragon’s wing bursts out of control, blotting out the sky before her. Eli lifts his face, wet with tears, oblivious to her terror. He keeps kissing and caressing her, even wrapping them both in his wings. Eli, Eli is a dragon... Li Mi cuts off all contact with him and flees to the royal palace. She agrees to an arranged marriage and carefully chooses a normal man, accepting the estate and the enormous diamond ring he offers her. But on the day of the engagement, the entire sky plunges into darkness. The black dragon beats his wings and snatches the bride away. With a gentle smile, Eli imprisons the bride in his castle and cruelly makes her cry. “I caught you, Li Mi. You’re mine.” 1. A magical setting with a Western fantasy feel. I need to look into which category it belongs in. 2. I’ll polish the blurb again, but the content won’t change. Theme: Even when time and space fall into chaos, love remains.