The Marquis's Wife's Guide to Taming Her Husband

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The emperor was unjust, so the Xie and Shen families arranged a marriage to stir things up.

Xie Yunchuan: Shen Zaige? No way. I'd rather stay a bachelor for life than marry her.

Shen Zaige: Xie Yunchuan? No way. I'd rather die than marry him.

Marquis Xie and Marquis Shen: Why?

Xie Yunchuan: She's a shrew. I have a beloved woman, a hundred times prettier and a hundred times gentler.

Shen Zaige: He's a wastrel. I have a beloved man, a hundred times more capable and a hundred times more heroic.

The two old men were so angry they threatened to slit their own throats with knives. "Son/Daughter, think of the greater good!"

After the wedding.

Xie Yunchuan pressed a dagger to his neck in despair. "Shen Zaige, come any closer and I'll kill myself!"

Shen Zaige rolled her eyes. "Go ahead. Do it. Right now."

Six months later.

Shen Zaige was sound asleep when someone suddenly squeezed in beside her.

Xie Yunchuan grinned sheepishly. "Wifey, let me squeeze in~"

Ever since he married his wife, the heir of the Xie family stopped caring about his dignity. It had been beaten out of him anyway.

When he was ten, a junior schoolmate came to the academy.

The boy was as delicate and cute as a porcelain doll.

Xie Yunchuan adored him, holding the porcelain doll in his hands for fear it might fly away, and keeping him in his mouth for fear he might melt.

But the porcelain doll avoided him at all costs.

Xie Yunchuan was heartbroken.

Until the first spring thunderstorm the following year.

At midnight, while Xie Yunchuan was fast asleep, a little hand tugged at his arm.

The little porcelain doll said in a soft, sweet voice, "Senior brother, I'm scared~"

The porcelain doll wasn't just delicate and cute, he was also soft and sweet.

Xie Yunchuan pulled him into his arms and gently comforted him. "Don't be scared. I'm here."

This novel is also known as: The Years I Spent Squeezing into Other People's Beds Will Have to Be Paid Back

This is the story of a pair of silly rivals who marry each other's beloved.

The husband of the Princess of Jingguo died.

Everyone said her life would be miserable now. She wasn't of royal blood, she'd grown distant from the emperor these past two years, and his favor was thin. She had no children, and no one knew how difficult her future would be.

Someone kindly arranged another marriage for her.

That night, the emperor burst into her room, smelling of wine. He leaned close to her and said, "Sister, you mustn't marry anyone else. I'll protect you."

In that moment, she saw something in the young emperor's eyes that shouldn't have been there: a man's possessiveness toward a woman.

Li Huai had always remembered how, when he was eight, the Prince of Qin staged a coup. Rebel soldiers killed his father and mother and burned down the palace. When he was left with nowhere to turn, it was an insignificant palace laundry maid who saved him.

She stole buns for him and took beatings, snatched food from refugees, and suffered the rebels' abuse...

With her frail backbone and slender body, she protected him all the way to his maternal grandfather's home in Longxi.

Later, with his grandfather's support, he defeated the rebels and ascended the throne.

He called her "Sister," the name he had used for her while in exile, and bestowed upon her the title of Princess of Jingguo.

Knowing she loved the eldest son of the Chen family, he arranged their marriage.

He had always believed he honored and respected her because he was an emperor who repaid kindness.

Until one night at a banquet, Chen Shutong walked past him with an arm around her waist.

He heard the jealous howling inside his own heart.

He finally understood. His desire to have her was a man's desire for a woman.

He suppressed the stirring in his heart, burying his desire deep inside.

Two years later, he heard her husband say of her, "She's nothing but a used-up woman. Why would I miss her?"

The young emperor flew into a rage. He couldn't bear to see the thing he treasured like a jewel cast aside like trash.

So he killed her husband.

Content warnings: 1. The woman is seven years older than the man. 2. The female lead is not a virgin, the male lead is. 3. Coercive possessiveness and melodrama.

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