[Naive, foolish little wife vs. aloof, controlling daddy] Ancient times to the modern day
Tao Man was the Rong family's adopted daughter-in-law in the Great Zhou dynasty.
After injuring his head in a childhood fall, he became a little slow. Everyone thought that once Tao Man grew up, the disabled and sinister heir of the Rong family would only take him as a concubine.
No one expected that as soon as Tao Man came of age, he'd be married to Rong Mingzheng as his proper wife in a grand procession laden with dowry.
On their wedding night, Tao Man was woken by sobbing throughout the estate. Dizzy, he sat up and clutched his aching stomach. Red silk had been replaced with mourning cloth throughout the household. The husband who had been so rough with him the night before had passed away that very day.
After this sudden turn of events, Tao Man became a young widower. On the seventh day after his husband's death, while visiting his grave, Tao Man cried until his vision blurred, missed a step, and fell off a cliff.
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When he woke again, Tao Man had become the young master of the Tao family in Jiangcheng. Even more surprising, he had recently married in this world too.
He had been drinking himself into a stupor because he'd married an old man. Panicking, Tao Man hid for several days in the hotel where he'd woken, but in the end, he couldn't escape fate, and the Rong family brought him back.
The very day he returned, he was sent to that man's room.
Tao Man walked around the unfamiliar room in tears, trembling. Suddenly, he tripped over something and cried out, falling onto the soft bed. He shook with fear, curling up his slender body as tears clouded his eyes.
A deep voice suddenly snapped from nearby, "Get out."
At the familiar sound of that voice, Tao Man froze. His eyes widened, and he finally burst into tears. His peach-like face was streaked with tears as he threw himself into the man's arms. "Husband!"
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Rong Mingzheng, the head of the Rong family, had been in a coma for decades after a car accident. When he woke, he swept through the business world with overwhelming force and returned to the center of power in less than six months.
Unfortunately, a man like him already had a spouse, and theirs was an arranged marriage set up through deception.
Everyone envied the young master of the Tao family for his good fortune. He'd been nothing but a pawn pushed into the marriage, yet somehow he'd climbed aboard such a powerful ship.
The outside world treated the marriage as a joke. After all, anyone who woke up to find themselves inexplicably married while they were unconscious would consider it a humiliation.
But instead of seeing a laughingstock, one day at a banquet they saw the young master of the Tao family sitting on the man's lap, his belly swollen with child.
In the garden, the man's tall frame covered the petite person in his arms. One broad hand rested on his round belly, while the other supported the back of his neck as he kissed him.
"My sweet baby, your husband was wrong. I'll never leave Manman again."
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Modern-day bonus scene:
At first, Rong Mingzheng had loathed his arranged-marriage partner, whose "wild reputation" preceded him.
The two of them had always been able to look at each other with mutual disdain, but at some point, the young master's personality changed completely.
He buzzed around Rong Mingzheng like a little bee, calling him "Husband" at every turn and pressing his soft cheek against him, making Rong Mingzheng feel flustered and annoyed.
"Husband, why can't I unlock your phone?"
Because it's password-protected...
"Husband, why..."
Everything else was bearable, until one day Tao Man leaned against him, blushing, and asked, "Husband, why won't you consummate our marriage?"
Rong Mingzheng couldn't take it anymore. Gripping Tao Man's face, he ground out, "Tao Man, you asked for this."
1. Both are virgins; ten-year age gap in the modern setting.
2. A single-star pregnancy story; Rong Mingzheng regains his memories later.
3. Archived with screenshots on August 15, 2026.
Theme: Golden wheat ears swaying
