Seeking a Husband

[Blurb One]

Once, she feared leaving home and having to survive alone. Later, she feared she would never escape the sky enclosed by four towering walls.

[Blurb Two]

Shen Qianhe is a woman who manages the family estate and seeks a husband to join her household. She bears an ancestral engagement contract.

But before her fiance even arrives, two talented young men have already died fighting over her.

Her prospective in-laws come to discuss the marriage, only to arrive just as someone comes to seize her for a ghost marriage (...).

To put an end to the troubles caused by her engagement once and for all, Shen Qianhe asks her cousin, who has come to claim kinship, to pretend to marry into her family. But in the blink of an eye, he becomes an imperial commissioner who sends her entire family to prison.

He Tongzhang was born into a distinguished family, but when the emperor killed meritorious officials to balance the court, he fell into the hands of the imperial household and became a trained assassin.

To clear his parents' names, he pretends to be too young to remember the past and focuses on serving the emperor. He becomes the most useful attack dog at Emperor Xiande's side.

Officials throughout the court fear the bloody methods of He Tongzhang, the smiling King of Hell.

With the emperor's birthday approaching, the cannon plans meant as a tribute have gone missing. Naturally, the responsibility for investigating falls to He Tongzhang.

Following the clues to Liaodong, he pretends to be the suspect's nephew and goes to investigate. He thinks that posing as a live-in son-in-law will surely give him all the information he needs.

But on their wedding night, his "wife" disappears with her entire family.

Facing his subordinates' curious gazes, He Tongzhang lowers his lashes and forces up the corners of his mouth.

She only caught a glimpse of his true face and ran faster than a rabbit. As expected, that ungrateful little wolf could never be tamed.

Update schedule:

Because the author was foolish and switched channels for the pre-release, missing the rankings, the story couldn't make the list until it was over seventy thousand words long;

And because the author was foolish a second time, it finished its natural run on the rankings back in 2020 (...).

So the story is already quite hefty. Come on in and take a bite!

Theme: Stay strong and strive forward in the face of adversity.