My Wife Is Sweet-Tongued but Insincere

Xie Shen, Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, has been feeling rather uneasy lately.

The wife he was forced to marry is always coming up with ways to get his attention.

Sometimes she uses changing clothes as an excuse to touch him and try to seduce him. Other times, she insists on a divorce or separate bedrooms, playing hard to get.

Sometimes she secretly draws portraits of him to keep, praises his good looks with sweet words, and even embroiders him a sachet.

In short, his wife has all kinds of little schemes.

Xie Shen is cold by nature and has no affection for this unfamiliar wife.

At first, her little schemes annoy him.

But gradually, he starts to feel that maybe they don't annoy him all that much.

She's willing to go to such lengths for him, which can only mean she likes him.

If so, he could accept her and try to make a life with her.

Until one day, Xie Shen discovers that the man in her portrait is someone else, the man receiving her sweet praise is someone else, and the sachet is embroidered for someone else...

All her little schemes are fake. Only the divorce and separate bedrooms are real.

That night, he kicked open the door to the room where she lived alone.

*

Ni Huici, the daughter of a minor official, has been very unhappy lately.

Everyone envies her for marrying into a powerful family and making a grand match, but Ni Huici doesn't like this unfamiliar husband of hers. She has a pen pal she has never met, whom she has secretly loved for a long time. He is the one she truly yearns for, her beloved moonlight.

To be together with her beloved, she tries to persuade her husband to divorce her after their wedding, while secretly meeting her love.

A few times, she nearly got caught, but each time she managed to fool him with honeyed words.

But for some reason, whenever she talks her way out of trouble, her husband's usually icy face turns inexplicably red.

Well...that's not important.

Ni Huici never gives it a second thought.

Until one night, her usually aloof and self-controlled husband suddenly barges into the west wing where she lives alone, yanks her out of bed, and kisses her roughly.

As they cling to each other, he says, “This is your punishment.”

[Bold, audacious sweetheart vs. cold-faced, secretly smitten powerful official]

Reading Guide:

1. One-on-one romance, both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending. No love rivals between the leads, so dive right in.

2. Romance-focused, fictional setting, so don't nitpick the details.

Upcoming story: Did the Princess Kill Her Husband Today?

In Wen Qingcheng's memories, the first time she saw Pei Muyuan was in a nightmare.

In the dream, war raged everywhere and the nation fell. He was her beloved husband of ten years, yet on a night when rivers of blood flowed, he slaughtered her parents and brothers. Then, with bloodstained hands, he stroked her face and softly told her not to be afraid.

The second time Wen Qingcheng saw Pei Muyuan was the day she awoke from the dream, at her coming-of-age ceremony.

Among the ministers and nobles who had come to congratulate her, he was a promising young talent, the ideal husband her father had carefully chosen for her.

Wen Qingcheng is Ning's most precious little princess, raised amid the boundless love of her parents and brothers. The carefree life she should have had forever was shattered by that prophetic dream.

Wen Qingcheng clenches her fists and vows to herself:

No matter what it takes, she will kill Pei Muyuan and put an end to the threat once and for all.

*

In Pei Muyuan's memories, the first time he saw Wen Qingcheng was in a heavy snowfall.

At the time, he was a pawn for others to use, a vicious dog trained by others, his life and death worth less than weeds.

To him, the world was nothing but a living hell.

Yet in the snow, the little girl struggled toward him, smiling as she held out her hand. Innocently, she asked him to be her friend.

In the endless darkness of the abyss, Pei Muyuan saw light for the first time.

He reached out, wanting to grasp that ray of light.

Later, after enduring countless hardships, he finally saw Wen Qingcheng for the second time.

Now he was an upright and honorable loyal minister, a worthy statesman, and a prospective prince consort who could at last stand by her side.

But the smile was gone from her eyes when she looked at him.

She no longer held out her hand to him.

“...”

It doesn't matter.

No matter what it takes, he will have Wen Qingcheng, and they will never be apart.

[Sweet, guileless princess vs. mad, obsessive treacherous minister]

Reading Guide:

1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, one-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. The heroine has a prophetic dream. She is not reborn.

3. The hero is a fresh, dewy black lotus: truly wicked, but a love-struck fool. There's a reason he's bad.

4. This is a story that pretends to be about mutual love and hate, but is really about redemption.

Theme: Freedom to pursue love