The Villain Turns Out to Be My Husband

[Pure-hearted, poker-faced cutie versus a sweet, silly girl]

Tao Lele transmigrates into an old-fashioned harem novel where everyone is infatuated with the heroine.

Everyone has an unrequited crush on the female lead, and Tao Lele is an insignificant passerby.

As the only daughter of a wine shop owner, she thinks she's landed the role of a rich heiress. But then her father falls gravely ill, her manager is poached, and her uncle eyes her property and plans to marry her off to a fool.

Sitting by the river, she cries and prays to be sent back. Suddenly, a hand reaches out of the water and grabs her ankle!

Tao Lele: A ghost!!

The man she rescues promises to grant her one wish. Tao Lele studies his handsome profile and unusually sturdy chest. She knows he may be someone important, but first she needs to protect her family business!

"You saved my life, so I should repay you by marrying you?"

The man falls silent for a while, then nods. And just like that, they get married.

After the wedding, she discovers that although he looks cold, he's actually very easygoing. As long as she calls him "Hubby" in a sweet voice, he'll agree to anything.

He helps her keep the wine shop, fixes up their home, does the laundry and cooking, and even brushes her hair and does her eyebrows.

Tao Lele's life couldn't be more comfortable, and she soon forgets her worries.

The neighbors say her husband is strange. He can smash a wall with one palm, and his gaze is so cold it could freeze someone to death.

Tao Lele: How could that be? You must have seen wrong. My husband is the gentlest man there is.

It isn't until the town's female doctor starts dropping by with one excuse or another that she realizes her husband is the villain who hates the heroine for spurning his love and slaughters his way through the story.

She is conflicted because she saved him before the heroine could, but looking at this cold-faced man doing her laundry, she just can't bring herself to tell him to leave.

Tao Lele is ready to fight the plot to the bitter end to protect her husband, but he leaves without a word.

After much soul-searching, Tao Lele decides that you can't keep someone who wants to leave. To hell with that man!

When Mu Ci deals with the trouble he faces and returns covered in injuries, he finds the Tao residence empty.

Where did my wife go? The one I had right here?

The sky falls :)

[Both first-timers, happy ending, one-on-one romance]

*An entirely sweet romance about falling in love after marriage, with tons of original details~*

*The heroine always puts herself first.*

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Ning Man has barely opened her eyes when she hears her older brother and sister-in-law planning to sell her off as a sacrificial bride.

She looks down at her own scrawny body, barely more than skin and bones, and gives up on running away. She obediently climbs into the bridal sedan.

She hears that Scholar Lu is brilliantly talented and passed the scholar examination at a very young age.

Even the county magistrate has praised his scholarship.

Unfortunately, fate is cruel to the gifted. He was attacked by bandits on the road to the imperial examinations and suffered a head injury. Ever since, his mind has been like that of a three-year-old.

The three-year-old-like Scholar Lu is the man Ning Man is to marry.

She thinks marrying into the Lu family is like jumping from a wolf's den into a tiger's, but her mother-in-law is gentle, if timid, and willing to listen to her and let her make the decisions. Her husband may be like a child, but he's considerate and caring, happy to bring her tea and water and massage her legs and shoulders.

A year after marrying into the Lu family, life keeps getting better. Ning Man sighs contentedly that this is how people are meant to live, never noticing that the man she treats like a child every day sometimes gazes at her with clear eyes.

One night, she suddenly wakes to find her foolish husband reading by candlelight. He sits with perfect posture, carrying himself like a scholar. When he notices her looking, he turns toward her with an exceptionally clear gaze.

Ning Man: ??? Aren't you a fool? Why are you reading?!

A few months later, nobody tells her that his illness can be cured and that he can take the imperial examinations!

And when the news comes that he's earned top honors in all three rounds of the examinations, everyone around her says she's lucky.

Ning Man, though, remembers the two years she spent treating him like a fool. She'd sit and make him massage her shoulders, then lie down and make him rub her legs.

She'd trick him as if he were a puppy.

Ning Man: …Now, is it too late to run?

Lu Jingsheng: Where do you think you're going?

Theme: Treat others sincerely, and you'll receive their sincerity in return.