The Honest Husband [Quick Transmigration]

○ My next book, Don't Make Waves, Humans, Listen to the Ducks, is a fluffy, feel-good story about a beloved pet. It opens on the 24th of this month.

○ My quick transmigration story of the same type, Please Let Me Live Off You (Quick Transmigration), is also available to preorder.

There is a kind of novel where the protagonist suffers one injustice after another early on, enduring the cold stares and torment of those around him and living in disappointment day after day. The honest husband at home cannot help him at all, and the protagonist even blames him for having too mild a temper. Eventually, the protagonist loses all hope, until he meets the male lead, who cherishes him with tender care. He lets go of the pain of the past and finally finds a peaceful, happy life full of love and devotion.

This kind of story is commonly known as a healing, sweet romance.

Besides the protagonist and the dashing male lead who wins his heart, there is one key character who appears throughout the story and is indispensable:

The honest husband, colorless and odorless, yet utterly toxic.

World One: Guard Against Fire, Theft, and Your Best Friend

The honest man and his wife grew up together as childhood sweethearts. After they grew up, his wife joined a major corporation and steadily climbed the ranks, spending her days running around and attending business dinners. The honest man, meanwhile, was laid off and took the setback hard. He simply stayed home to do the housework and became a full-time househusband.

His wife's friends had always looked down on his pathetic, spineless ways. But by an odd twist of fate, they found themselves attracted to him. In the end, his wife discovered the truth and broke down as she demanded an explanation.

World Two: The Handsome Young Educated Youth from the City

A group of educated youths from the city are sent to live in Sangjia Village. The village chief calls on the villagers to make their vacant homes available to accommodate the newcomers.

The honest man enters the village with the group and immediately sets his sights on the spacious, sunlit courtyard in the best location.

Word gets around, and plenty of young men in the village start thinking about inviting the handsome newcomer to stay with them. Their eyes burn with interest, and they are eager to make a move.

Seeing several village men eyeing her husband hungrily, the honest man's wife silently rolls up her sleeves and blocks the courtyard gate.

If anyone wants to steal her man, they can ask her fists first.

World Three: The Honest Man Is a Romance Scammer

The honest man is deep in debt from overspending. His wife refuses to pay it off for him, hoping to teach him a lesson. Unwilling to accept this, and having watched plenty of videos of people making money from viewers' gifts, he decides to give it a try.

Facing the livestream camera, he claims his parents are dead, his grandfather is seriously ill, and he has an autistic older brother.

As he expected, the livestream is a huge success. The top two contributors shower him with money, and just as he is smugly watching his balance grow, his top two contributors get into a fight with his wife.

World Four: The Honest Man's Dead Wife

The honest man's wife has died. Afraid her husband will have no one to look after him, she returns as a dutiful ghostly husband who keeps coming back to wash up and cook even after death. She watches the honest man remarry, then sees his second wife die too.

The second ghostly wife is afraid the honest man will find a mistress, so she makes noises around the house every day to remind him that she is only dead, not divorced. If he ignores her, she will haunt him.

The gentle first ghost wife and the obsessive second ghost wife both keep the same honest man trapped between them.

World Five: The Honest Alpha Husband in an ABO Novel

The honest man arrives in an interstellar world and becomes an Alpha. The Federation Pheromone Center pairs him with a Marshal Omega. His goal is to have three children in five years. But when their son is three, they receive an invitation to a family reality show and go on television.

The Marshal Alpha watches her husband and son become everyone's darlings on TV, even winning over her sworn enemy. She can't help sighing. These two irresistible charmers are such a handful.

* A male-lead harem story, with the male lead doted on.

--- Preorder announcement ---

In his previous life, Baibai was human. In this life, he opened his eyes and found himself a duck.

The good news: As a pet duck, he no longer has to go to that awful job.

The bad news: A once-in-a-century flood is coming, and he has to run for his life.

Baibai brings his food, his owner's ID and phone, and the big fat cat at home. He takes everything with him.

The rain pours down, and the floodwater reaches their knees.

The Border Collie next door, Kele, runs into their yard and calls for them to escape together.

On the run, the three little animals meet more creatures, and their group grows larger and larger. Baibai uses human ingenuity to gradually establish his authority among the animals.

"The Duck King! Baibai is the Duck King!"

Baibai puffs out his round, fluffy chest and stands proudly atop the hillside, majestic and imposing.

The zookeeper is a loner, weary of the world, and still young as he looks after the zoo on the outskirts of the city all by himself. When the flood comes, he locks the little animals in cages, then carries them on his back as he runs.

During the evacuation, several wild animals go missing.

Then he sees the enormous group following Baibai.

The zookeeper looks closely at Baibai, who is leading the group.

Baibai, Duck Unit 619, juvenile form, not yet transformed.

At night, Baibai lies in the man's arms, his eyes curved into crescent moons.

The next morning, the man is lying in Baibai's arms, curled up into a tiny ball.

Baibai scratches his head with a wing. How... did he grow so big?

The zookeeper opens his eyes and looks without surprise at the enormous creature before him. He gently pushes Baibai's wing aside and burrows into the warm space between his belly and waist. "Let me snuggle in. It's warm."

No melodramatic angst, just fluffy healing from beginning to end. Watch a duckling, a blue cat, and a Border Collie join forces to brave a natural disaster and save one another with warmth and courage.

Theme: Love really does take courage