The Dandy Heir's Devotion to His Wife (Reborn)

My completed manuscript, Sweetness on the Blade's Edge, is looking for advance readers. My new story features a gloomy male lead and a sweet girl.

Shen Yaoyue, the eldest daughter of the Marquis of Yongning's household, has long admired the Grand Tutor's eldest grandson.

With her family's help, she gets her wish and marries him.

Less than a year later, her relatives are demoted.

The Grand Tutor's eldest grandson takes eighteen concubines in a row,

then watches as she falls gravely ill and dies without treatment.

When her childhood sweetheart, a young general, hears of her death, he wipes out the entire Grand Tutor's household.

Only then does she realize that her refined, jade-like husband is a hypocrite who wanted to use her,

while the carefree young master who was always teasing her had truly loved her.

Reborn, she reaches the age of betrothal once again.

The hypocrite from her previous life actually comes to propose of his own accord.

She sneaks off to a pleasure house

and asks the rakish young nobleman drinking there if he would marry her.

At the time, he is not yet a general. Holding a wine jar,

he looks at Shen Yaoyue, who has always avoided him,

and asks with a fierce expression, “I'm this scary, and you still dare to marry me?”

Shen Yaoyue is not the least bit afraid. “Then do you dare to marry me?”

The future young general thinks to himself: So she's using reverse psychology. Damn, I'll marry her, then straighten her out afterward.

After they marry,

the young general gazes adoringly at his wife:

“My lady is always right. I'll do whatever you say.”

The male lead is probably like this:

Gu Chenfei is the only son of Prince Yi. His family has enjoyed generations of nobility,

but everyone despises him for his lecherous ways and defiance of his elders.

That is, until he marries her.

Everyone is astonished to discover that the notorious wastrel of old has become the best husband in the capital.

His rowdy friends invite him out to eat. “My wife's strict. I'm not going.”

His colleagues invite him for drinks. “My wife's keeping an eye on me. I'm not going.”

Everyone admires the young madam's skill at keeping him in line,

but in truth, he simply can't bear to see the woman he treasures suffer the slightest grievance.

In their previous life, he brought down the Zhao family and avenged her.

In this life, he'll protect her and give her a peaceful life, rising to the top together.

A male lead who seems rakish but is actually devoted / a female lead who quietly makes a fortune despite being branded a shrew.

The male lead has a hidden identity.

They dote on each other. Alternate universe.

The main story is probably about a couple with terrible reputations joining forces to dazzle the gossip-loving onlookers.

Theme: May good people have peaceful lives.