Married Thrice to Salted Fish

[The print edition is now available under the title "Three Encounters with a Couch Potato"]

[The audio drama of the same name is now available on Maoer FM]

When Lin Qingyu was eighteen, he married into a marquis's household to bring good luck, becoming the sickly young marquis's male spouse.

On their wedding night, the young marquis lounged on the wedding bed and said, “Beauty, honestly, I really don't want to fight for power in the household. I just want to eat my fill, wait to die, and be a couch potato.”

A year later, the young marquis was gravely ill. He took Lin Qingyu's hand and sighed. “Honey, I'm about to kick the bucket, but I think I can keep transmigrating. Let's agree on a secret code so we'll recognize each other in the future.”

After the young marquis died, Lin Qingyu prepared to spend the rest of his life a widower. But after barely half a year of mourning, a celebrated general showed up to ask for his hand in marriage.

Lin Qingyu would rather die than agree. The general said just one thing: “The odd changes, the even stays the same?”

Lin Qingyu: “...I'll marry you.”

Two years later, the general died in battle. Before Lin Qingyu could even mourn, the emperor summoned him to the palace.

The emperor complained plaintively, “Sweetheart, this time I became emperor, so my dream of being a couch potato is completely shattered...”

Lin Qingyu knew his husband might be lazy, but when it came to schemes and machinations, nobody could beat him.

He patted the emperor's head. “Don't think about it. Go read your memorials, good boy.”

Theme: Excellence comes from diligence; idleness leads to ruin