You Should've Told Me My Husband Was the Best of the Best!

Because her cursed energy was weak and she had supposedly caused her parents' deaths at birth, Zenin Hagi was sent away to live with another family as a child. At twenty-five, the Zenin family brought her home.

The reason was that the Zenin family needed to arrange a marriage alliance with the Gojo family, and they had no unmarried women of a suitable age.

The intended match was the head of the Gojo family.

So the reason they were letting her come home was to use her as a marriage pawn and make her marry a man she had never met?

The Gojo family head... She had seen him as a child. He was an old man with a beard that dragged on the ground, and he already had several wives and concubines.

Ugh... Just thinking about it makes me want to puke.

That arrogant blond fox-eyed man even said it was her good fortune to marry him.

Who would want that kind of good fortune?

What marriage? Run!

So on the day of the wedding, after turning the Zenin household upside down, she decisively ran away.

[Whoever wants to marry that disgusting Gojo family head can do it! Bye!]

That was what she wrote in the note she left behind.

The bride ran off on her wedding day, bringing shame upon the Gojo family as well. Both families searched for her with all their might.

What shame? I haven't even called him a disgusting old man preying on young women yet!

The next day, while evading pursuit, she met a handsome white-haired, blue-eyed man in a bar. He seemed to have been dumped and was utterly miserable.

To nip the problem in the bud, she grabbed him and said, "How about we have a quickie wedding? Maybe your ex will regret it when she sees how happy you are without her."

The handsome man froze for a moment, then agreed.

When the others found her, she proudly showed off the diamond ring on her left ring finger.

"I'm married now! Bigamy is illegal!"

After that, they never came looking for her again.

Life finally settled down. Her new husband was easy on the eyes and sweet-talking, capable of holding his own at formal events and cooking in the kitchen, and he treated her well.

The only flaw was that he, too, had the surname Gojo.

What terrible luck.

After a while, those people really did stop bothering her. So she decided to pack her bags and leave the country while she still could, cutting ties with them for good.

Before leaving, she wanted to get everything in order, so she called over her bargain husband, who still hadn't gotten over his ex-girlfriend after all this time.

"The trouble on my family's end is taken care of now, so our contract marriage should end too. Let's get divorced tomorrow."

The look in the white-haired young man's eyes suddenly darkened. He pushed her luggage away.

Then he smiled, grabbed her wrist, and pinned her against the wall.

"No. You got to decide when to run away and when to get married, but I won't let you decide when we get divorced."

"After all this time together, dear Mrs. Gojo, you should understand that I'm not disgusting, right?"

Huh...?

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When he heard that he was supposed to marry into the Zenin family, 5t5 was the first to object.

His family couldn't do anything about it. He was the head of the family, so what he said went.

But when he learned that his marriage partner was that woman, he nodded.

She had promised to marry him when they were kids. Wasn't this just her keeping her promise?

He looked forward to the day, dutifully going along with one tedious wedding ritual after another and enduring the restrictions of all the formalities, all so he could bring her home as his bride.

But when he arrived at the Zenin family home to fetch her, they told him she had run away.

★ Story blurb archived on 2026.8.20

Theme: Love grows through getting to know each other over time.