A Guide to Spoiling Your Husband

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Blurb:

Short introduction: A ridiculously strong sweetheart x a cool, jealous top scholar

When Gu Yao was eight, she moved in next door to Li Yan's family.

She sneaked up a paulownia tree and spotted the “Little Top Scholar,” famous throughout the area, practicing his painting beneath it. The boy was refined and handsome, with an elegant bearing. When he grew up, he would surely be peerlessly beautiful.

Gu Yao was instantly dazzled. Blushing and fidgeting, she said, “I'm Gu Yao. Who are you?”

Li Yan looked up at the little girl scrambling around in the tree and smiled like a spring breeze.

“Someone,” he said, “kick her down and throw her out.”

But fortunes change. The Li family was later ruthlessly suppressed and purged, while the Gu family rose to power and was granted a marquis title. They became the talk of the town, and suitors lined up all the way from the imperial palace to the city gates.

As one proposal followed another, her father asked whether she had someone in mind.

Gu Yao nodded. “But I think I'm in love with someone who doesn't love me back.”

“What's so hard about that?” Her burly father waved a big hand. “We'll just kidnap him!”

And so, by imperial decree, the Great Sheng's most handsome gentleman and former top scholar, Li Yan, was carried into the Gu family home, bound hand and foot.

On their wedding night, Li Yan spat out the gag in his mouth and delivered the first threat of his life: “Even if I die, I will never fall in love with you.”

Gu Yao's heart gave a painful jolt, and she was so upset that she crushed the wine cup in her hand.

Li Yan: ???

“I had no idea you hated me this much.”

“...I don't. Don't make things up.”

Please note:

(1) A fun, sweet story with a doting heroine and a pampered hero | Both leads are inexperienced | Marriage first, love later | Happy ending | The heroine grows stronger over time | Ensemble cast, with a secondary couple | The heroine is a lovesick puppy

(2) The setting is fictional. Please don't read if you expect historical accuracy.

(3) I'm a reliable writer and usually update daily. Please add this to your collection and let it build up!

[Coming Soon, Story One:]

She Doesn't Plan to Be a Good Person:

Aloof, exalted beauty of the immortal path x female disciple who betrays her master and ancestors

Atop the Peak of Exorcism, a bitter wind howled. Behind her lay nothing but a dead end.

Once, they had been a loving sect. Now, they turned their swords on each other. Seriously wounded, Chang Wanyao burst into laughter.

“Kill her! Kill this demoness! Avenge our fellow sect members!”

“Kill this traitorous disciple and clear the name of our Green Mountain Sect!”

Lord Qishan, what are you waiting for? Do it!”

Lord Qishan had led a spotless life. His greatest stain was having taught a disciple who betrayed him and her ancestors. Everyone watched the upright, honorable immortal lord, waiting for him to swing his fearsome Frostless sword and kill his disciple to prove his Dao.

Before he could act, Chang Wanyao suddenly smiled faintly, turned around, and leaped from the Peak of Exorcism.

A sharp clang rang out.

From the corner of her eye, she saw her master, who had always cared for the world and been as cold as frost, throw down his life-bound sword and run toward her.

Her master was one of the few people who had ever treated Chang Wanyao well in her short life.

After fleeing the sect, she often drank herself into a stupor. In her drunken haze, she would see that figure in white beside her, his expression detached, as if keeping the world at a thousand miles' distance.

“A Yao, those who cultivate the Dao must care for all under heaven, without letting personal feelings cloud their judgment.”

But after she fell into demonic cultivation, her master used all his power to save her from the Peak of Exorcism. He, however, vanished without a trace, his life and Dao extinguished.

In her drunken haze,

Chang Wanyao reached out, hoping to catch the hem of that white robe, but the phantom vanished into thin air just as she was about to touch it.

She laughed bitterly, for some reason remembering how, as a child, she would curl up in his arms and recite an old poem to him, line by line.

“Old in Zhangpu, I've fallen ill three times; in Xianyang, the trees and grass have seen eight autumns... Master, what comes next?”

His cool, clear voice answered softly: “You lie beneath the earth, your bones turned to dust. I remain in this world, my hair white as snow.”

Reader's note:

*This is a melodramatic story about an exalted beauty falling from grace. The leads suffer emotionally and physically, but it has a happy ending! A happy ending! A happy ending!

*The heroine pursues revenge and builds her career in the early part of the story, pretending to be a helpless little white rabbit. She turns dark in the middle and redeems herself in the end.

*The male lead is her master. He doesn't die and will come back to life.

*“Old in Zhangpu, I've fallen ill three times; in Xianyang, the trees and grass have seen eight autumns. You lie beneath the earth, your bones turned to dust. I remain in this world, my hair white as snow.”, “Dreaming of Weizhi,” by Bai Juyi, Tang dynasty

[Coming Soon, Story Two:]

Self-made domineering CEO x fallen rich beauty

After returning to China, Li Sang attended a class reunion and saw the person she had loved when she was young.

He now held a senior position at his company. The white T-shirts he used to love had been replaced by expensive suits, and his handsome, refined features had taken on a mature charm.

He also had a new love, beautiful and dazzling, by his side.

Li Sang smiled, ignored the curious looks all around her, and drained her glass of liquor.

They were strangers today because they had brought it upon themselves.

On a rainy day, Yu Jingming opened the door to his villa, his shirt casually buttoned only halfway.

He looked at Li Sang, drenched by the rain, his gaze dark.

Li Sang said, “Should we start over?”

After a long silence, the man slowly replied, “Why should I?”

“Because you can't forget me, and because I still love you.”

[Bonus Scene]

Xiao Liu, the CEO's secretary, greatly admired his boss, Yu Jingming.

He was decisive, efficient, brilliant, and handsome. Every movement exuded the charm of a mature man.

Then, at a morning meeting, President Yu berated a room full of executives over fifty until they were all quaking in their boots. As he was still fuming, his phone rang at the worst possible moment. Irritated, he said, “I'm in a meeting. Say it quickly.”

The person on the other end fell silent. After a moment, a sweet, delicate female voice said, “Yu Jingming, you're being mean to me. You're so tough, aren't you?”

“...”

In front of everyone's eyes, the man who had been raging moments ago immediately softened and coaxed her in a gentle voice. “Sang Sang, don't tease me.”

The lingering echo of “Sang Sang” made Xiao Liu's heart tremble, and something inside him went “crack.”

That was the sound of his faith shattering.

Please note:

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both leads are inexperienced.

2. The male lead is a self-made CEO with a carefree, uninhibited personality. The female lead is coquettish and demanding, not a silly, innocent sweetheart.

3. They reunite after a breakup. Not angsty, but readers who don't like melodrama should take note.

Theme: Face difficulties head-on and keep moving forward.