The Sickly Guy Next Door

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A new family once moved in next door to Chang's Medicinal Herb Shop. It was Gu Xun, the sickly, looks-obsessed man who had once saved Chang Changan, then abandoned her and even called her ugly.

Chang Changan often bragged to her friends about it: "See? That's what you call fate!"

But the sickly man was perfect in every way except that he never paid her any attention.

Throughout the two years Chang Changan pursued him relentlessly, she often told herself, "It's fine. I may not have any other good qualities, but I'm a little thicker-skinned than other people, a little more open-minded, and a little more resilient. Winning over a sickly man is only a matter of time."

In the end, she hadn't even held his hand when the sickly man suddenly disappeared.

Without a word, she was abandoned again.

It was only years later, when she saw Gu Xun again and witnessed his ruthless methods in the imperial court, that she felt incredibly lucky. Thank goodness he had only used her back then and hadn't taken her persistent advances seriously. And even more fortunately, after he disappeared, she had finally given up on him.

But reality was far more frightening than she had imagined.

The sickly man who once treated her with indifference suddenly began pursuing her relentlessly.

"My lord, didn't you deny that you were Gu Xun?"

"I admit it now. So we should make up for the marriage agreement we made back then."

"You're obsessed with looks, and I'm ugly."

"I'm blind now, aren't I?"

A cold, looks-obsessed man who only cares about revenge and will use or deceive anyone to achieve his goals, setting all kinds of grand intentions while he has no idea what love is and hurting the girl, only to get his comeuppance when he later tries to win her back.

The aloof act is fun for a while, but chasing your wife turns into a living hell. In the end, he realizes he really does love her.

1. The woman pursues the man in the early part of the story, though not for long. Later, the man pursues the woman, for much longer.

2. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

3. The heroine isn't ugly. The hero only called her ugly early on to reject her on purpose. Her face had been scratched by a branch at the time, but it later healed. The heroine really isn't ugly; she's quite beautiful, after all, her mother was a great beauty. Orz

The next novel planned for my author page is The Cowardly Mushroom Wins After a General Possesses Her, by Li Ziyu.

When Su Yunxiu was six, her maternal uncle's family fell into ruin, her birth mother died young, and her father remarried. Overnight, she went from being the third legitimate daughter of a marquis's household to an unwanted bringer of bad luck.

After an accident left her unconscious, her soul left her body and she was forced to possess a man's body for half a month.

When she woke up, she discovered that the people in the marquis's household had started treating her strangely. Even her own body felt wrong.

Her second sister, who had never been kind to her, suddenly sent a maid to bring her medicine. Su Yunxiu reached out to take it, but accidentally snapped the maid's finger.

Her cousin, who always enjoyed laughing at her, suddenly invited her to tea. But a man she didn't know showed up instead. As she tried to turn him away, she accidentally brushed his leg, and it broke.

She went to a pawnshop to exchange something for money to buy medicine, but had the bad luck to run into a spoiled young master looking for trouble. In her panic, she flailed her arms a few times, and he ended up bruised and swollen, looking like a pig's head.

Su Yunxiu: "Waaah, help!"

The people of the marquis's household, who had tried to frame Su Yunxiu but ended up being taught a lesson: "Stay back!"

The Great Liang dynasty's God of War, Xie Chang'an, joined the army at thirteen and held military power by eighteen. In just three years, he completely wiped out the Rong forces that had harassed the borders for decades, driving them far away so they never dared invade again.

When the army returned victorious, the emperor held a banquet to welcome the soldiers home.

At the feast, cups clinked and music played sweetly, while elegantly dressed young noblewomen competed onstage with their dances and performances.

Xie Chang'an nonchalantly drank the drugged wine placed before him, finding the whole thing unbearably dull.

Then, in a moment's glance, he couldn't help being drawn to a little figure who stood out from the rest.

The third young lady of the marquis's household, whose body his soul had once possessed, was alone in a corner, wiping away tears. Her shoulders trembled as she sobbed, and she looked terribly wronged.

Xie Chang'an had no intention of helping her. He simply watched with interest.

Then he watched as she cried and, without so much as a change in expression, dislocated the arm of the man beside her who had tried to get handsy...

Then she dried her tears and silently hid in the corner, eating and stashing food, every now and then secretly passing some to the little maid beside her, thinking no one had noticed.

The two of them were like little mice hiding in a corner...

No, Xie Chang'an chuckled. He remembered the nickname he'd learned by accident while possessing her: Bao Gu, Little Mushroom.

She really was like a short mushroom growing unnoticed in a corner, but capable of poisoning someone to death if they weren't careful.

A little scene:

After the banquet, he returned to his room, only to find a little mushroom fast asleep in his bed.

Xie Chang'an was about to wake her when he suddenly felt dizzy, and the two of them switched bodies.

Soon, the drug took effect in his body.

Xie Chang'an watched his own tall, strapping body curl into a ball, cheeks flushed, whimpering and moaning. It was enough to make his eyes burn.

Xie Chang'an scolded her coldly: "Shut up. Hold back your tears."

Su Yunxiu, no longer in her right mind: "Sniffle, sniffle."

Xie Chang'an: "…"

After several reprimands failed, Xie Chang'an had no choice but to soften his voice and gently soothe her.

Early the next morning, someone saw Su Yunxiu get out of a carriage in front of the general's residence, carrying Xie Chang'an in her arms.

And according to a reliable source, the whole general's residence heard their General Xie wailing in the study that day, so ashamed he wanted to die. It was a truly pitiful sight.

The person involved, outwardly Su Yunxiu but inwardly Xie Chang'an: "…"

A ruthless, cold-faced King of Hell X a timid mushroom with a bizarre way of thinking and incredible strength, who doesn't even realize how strong she is

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