After Shu Qi was chosen to marry into the Tang family as the young heir's spouse, he was constantly taught how to be a virtuous husband.
His mother told him: [Young Master Tang has a bad temper. Be good and keep quiet, or he'll get angry.]
His father told him: [Be a good young madam of the Tang family and work hard to advance our family's business! Watch what you say and do.]
His older sister told him: [I heard Tang Jingzhao has been impotent for years. Try to sleep in separate rooms at night so he can't get the chance to torment you!]
Shu Qi hadn't even met his future husband yet, but he'd already been taught a mountain of rules. They'd even confiscated the comics he loved most. He couldn't stand Tang Jingzhao, and at their first official meeting, he gave the man a hard kick.
Everyone present sucked in a sharp breath at the sight of the footprint on the pants of the refined, handsome man.
Everyone in Beicheng's high society knew that the young heir was exceptionally capable, ruthless, and bad-tempered. If you displeased him, he was the kind of man who could destroy you.
Everyone wondered when this pretty boy, who clearly had no sense of self-preservation, would be thrown to the dogs by Tang Jingzhao. But in the next instant, the famously germaphobic young heir bent down himself to take off Shu Qi's shoes, then lifted him into his arms.
"Are you stupid? If your shoes were uncomfortable, why didn't you say so?"
He scolded him gently, unable to hide his concern. "Your feet are all rubbed red."
As the darling of heaven, Tang Jingzhao had always gotten whatever he wanted. After living as he pleased for over twenty years, his family began pressuring him to get married. At a matchmaking banquet hosted by his own mother, he watched with cool indifference and eventually picked Shu Qi on a whim.
He'd originally meant to put an end to his mother's matchmaking, but she turned out to be surprisingly open-minded.
It didn't matter whether her child-in-law was a man or a woman, as long as there was one!
Tang Jingzhao had tried to be clever and ended up outsmarting himself. So he came up with a nasty plan: bully the silly little darling he'd fallen for at first sight until he ran away.
But little by little, he was the one wrapped around this pampered sweetheart's finger.
"Tang Jingzhao, my limited-edition comic books go here. Take all your stuff away!"
The fiercely territorial man obediently gathered up his files and gave Shu Qi the study.
"Tang Jingzhao, it's thundering outside. I want you to hold me."
The man, whose temper on waking was so terrible he could tear the world apart, gathered his wife into his arms and gently told him stories until he fell asleep. He wasn't the least bit impatient, secretly thrilled that his wife had come to him for a hug.
"Tang Jingzhao, why are you on the rich list but I'm not?"
The young heir, wealthy enough to rival a nation, didn't even blink before offering up the whole family fortune.
Tang Jingzhao felt he might as well tear out his heart and feed it to Shu Qi. But the ungrateful little thing was fickle, and a few words from someone else could make him want to run away.
One day, after Tang Jingzhao had been left alone for three days, he could take it no longer. He dragged Shu Qi back and tossed him onto the bed.
He'd clearly had enough energy to spend all those days fooling around outside.
That meant Tang Jingzhao hadn't been doing his duty as a husband.
Blurb written on August 1, 2026
Theme: Love lasts forever
