The Chancellor's Household Has a Fierce Wife

Coming soon: "A Jiao," a lovesick, deranged regent VS a once-cool beauty who loses her memory and becomes a soft, adorable sweetheart

Coming soon: "The Marquis's Estate Has a Little Lord Wang (Mystery)," a cunning, gentle big brother VS a clever, sweet little cutie

Coming soon: "Taking My Archrival as a Disciple," a silly xianxia tale of fighting monsters, leveling up, falling in love, and cozy everyday life

Currently updating: "The Merchant's Wife," historical romance: forced love and a groveling quest to win her back

Currently updating: "The Actress's Deduction Game," modern entertainment industry: a sultry, sharp-tongued queen solves mysteries

This story: A lighthearted historical comedy about loving one's career, not one's husband (a career is as close as a sibling, a husband as disposable as a garment)

[Groveling intensity: ☆☆]

[Sweetness level: ☆☆☆]

Huo Sang married the most beautiful woman in the capital, the daughter of Minister Lin. The whole capital envied them, calling them a perfect match made in heaven. Only Huo Sang knew that he married Lin Youqing because of an imperial decree from Ruan Rou.

Ruan Rou had now become an exalted consort. So she could live safely in the palace, he had to grit his teeth and marry that Lin girl. Everyone said Lin Youqing was gentle, virtuous, kind, and considerate. So be it. He could bring her home as a pretty ornament and thus prove his devotion to Ruan Rou.

Who could have guessed that on their wedding night, the famously gentle, virtuous, kind, and considerate most beautiful woman would hike up her skirt, climb a tree, and yell that she was escaping...

Yang Youniang had just one wish in life: to get back at everyone who had ever bullied her, and follow in the footsteps of Master Liang from the silk workshop. She wanted to leave Yangjia Village with her younger brother, travel far and wide, do business, and enjoy life while counting her money every day.

But on the night she inherited her master's silk workshop, she was abducted by a group of officials on her way home. Even more astonishingly, she suddenly had a Minister for a father and a beautiful, delicate older sister who loved to cry and looked exactly like her!

Just as she was trying to make sense of it all, her Minister father threatened her with her younger brother's life, forcing her to take her sister Lin Youqing's place and marry Huo Sang, the living King of Hell and bringer of bad luck, whom everyone in the capital feared.

Of course she had to run. Yang Youniang wasn't stupid. Wealth and glory were fleeting; staying alive mattered most! Whoever wanted to marry that King of Hell could do it. She absolutely would not!

[Bonus Scene 1]

Huo Sang was handling official business in his study...

A subordinate came to report: "Prime Minister, Madam has run away again."

Huo Sang frowned. "How did she escape this time?"

The subordinate: "She crawled through the dog hole."

Huo Sang slammed down his pen. The subordinate ventured, "Should I have the dog hole sealed up?"

Huo Sang gritted his teeth. "No! Let her crawl through it!"

The next day, the Prime Minister's wife was dragged back in a dog cage...

[Bonus Scene 2]

One day, realizing she couldn't escape, the Prime Minister's wife decided to do her job properly and take charge of the household. She discovered the estate spent too much, so she started cutting costs and finding new sources of income...

At lunch, Huo Sang was about to eat when someone took the meat and fish off the table. "The Prime Minister isn't well. Greasy food might harm his health."

Huo Sang: "..."

Huo Sang was about to make tea when someone took away all his tea leaves and poured him a cup of plain water. "The Prime Minister isn't well. Strong tea might harm his health."

Huo Sang: "..."

Huo Sang bought several new outfits. Someone put all his clothes away, leaving him just one.

Huo Sang raised an eyebrow. "It's bad for my health?"

She replied, "Clothes are just for covering your body. The old ones aren't even worn out! This isn't bad for your health, it's bad for your wallet!"

Huo Sang slapped the table. "Lin Youniang, you're outrageous!"

[Bonus Scene 3]

Madam finally escaped.

Huo Sang finally had a feast, but someone's concern kept echoing in his mind...

Huo Sang finally got to drink tea, and someone's concern echoed in his mind again...

Huo Sang bought new clothes, and that penny-pinching face appeared in his mind once more...

Habits were a terrible thing. Without her, he felt strangely empty. At last, he decided to accept the emperor's assignment to inspect Jiangnan.

His subordinate gave him a thumbs-up. "Prime Minister, you are truly diligent!"

Huo Sang: "I'm going to find my wife!"

Guide:

1. One is cunning and reserved, the other bold and straightforward. They're rivals, but also kindred spirits.

2. One true pairing. The male lead realizes how good he had it and spends the story groveling to win his wife back.

3. I'm terrible at writing blurbs, but I've really tried.

4. This story is set in an alternate world! If you come across anachronistic forms of address or other descriptions, please don't nitpick. Read for fun; nitpicking will only spoil it. No, no.

Coming Soon

"A Jiao"

Historical romance, healing groveling arc, [cool or sweet] cat and mad dog

[Doting level: ☆☆☆☆☆]

[Groveling level: ☆☆☆☆]

[Couple: Lovesick, mad-dog regent VS a cool beauty before losing her memory, then a soft, adorable sweetheart]

[Before the heroine loses her memory: a forced-love story. Afterward: a sweet, doting story with the hero groveling to win her back]

A Jiao had a very long dream. She dreamed she had become the regent's mistress. The regent was cruel and deranged, and abused the wives and concubines in his household. Luckily, she was foolish, so she escaped his notice.

Perhaps because he thought her stupid, the regent hid her in an outer courtyard.

Later, the regent fell from power, and she, his mistress, could not escape the consequences. She died a horrible death.

When she woke, she was lying in bed, covered in wounds. The Xu family's tavern was doing poorly, so its head had no choice but to sell A Jiao. A few days ago, A Jiao had been selling wine on the street when the regent noticed her. Her mother then got the idea to sell her daughter and sent her to the regent's manor.

That dream had been far too real. She didn't want to be anyone's mistress, and she didn't want wealth or status. She just wanted to stay alive.

Luckily, a mistress had no official standing. She had already worked out that she could survive if she followed these three rules:

First, don't provoke the regent. Second, save up enough money to run away. Third, escape when the time is right.

After taking power, the regent developed a madness. Everyone in the capital lived in fear. Even the emperor was terrified of him and treated him with the utmost deference.

Later, somehow, the regent's illness got better. When the emperor asked why, he replied, "I just got a new toy."

Later still, he went mad again, telling everyone that his cat had gone missing. The emperor ordered the whole country to search for it.

In the end, he found his cat in a tavern.

The cat named A Jiao.

"Jiaojiao, don't leave me again, understand?"

"My lord, could you stop pinching my cheeks all the time? You've pinched me plump."

"My Jiaojiao looks better plump."

A Jiao thought to herself: If I get fat, I won't fit through the dog hole!

Coming Soon

"The Marquis's Estate Has a Little Lord Wang (Mystery)"

A lighthearted historical mystery with an adored heroine and everyday antics

[Doting level: ☆☆☆☆☆]

[Feel-good level: ☆☆☆☆☆]

[Couple: Cunning, gentle big brother VS clever, sweet little cutie]

Wang Xiang was a girl with very clear goals. Ever since she was old enough to understand, every day she would look into any reflective surface she could find and ask herself, "Have I been virtuous, generous, proper, elegant, composed, dignified, and calm today?"

That day, she asked herself the same question while looking at something reflective in her hand. The Wang family's maid saw her and was so shocked that she hurriedly called all the brothers, sisters-in-law, and elders of the family.

The Wang family's third brother managed to stay calm. He approached with trembling hands and asked carefully, "Ah Xiang, sweetheart, could you put down the huge sword in your hand first?"

Everyone said the Xie family of Chen Commandery had fallen into decline. No one expected them to produce a handsome genius after a century.

Unfortunately, this talented man was fated to be a lone star, and rumors even said he was impotent. As a result, all three of his betrothals fell through.

Because of his unusual fate, after he placed in the imperial examinations, the emperor sent him straight to the Ministry of Justice.

As if by fate, the junior official there turned out to be the young lady who had stayed at the Marquis of Xingyang's residence, watched him bathe in the middle of the night, and gotten engaged to him!

Xie Lin smiled fondly. What else could he do? Of course he would dote on and protect his own wife! No one was allowed to ruin his fourth engagement!

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The serious blurb:

A decade-old case, forty-nine bodies found in a dry well beneath the bustling streets, a female ghost in the depths of the cold palace, a headless man's corpse in a tailor shop outside the capital...

What is the truth hidden beneath the layers of fog?

Watch as Xie Lin, the handsome genius and lone-star chief officer of the Ministry of Justice, clears away the mist and reveals the truth.

Wang Xiang stood nearby, pouting with pen and paper in hand. "I helped investigate too!"

Xie Lin fondly patted her head. "Yes, you're right, Ah Xiang."

Coming Soon

"Taking My Archrival as a Disciple"

A silly xianxia tale of fighting monsters, leveling up, falling in love, and cozy everyday life. The master is a total weirdo. [Lighthearted comedy]

[Sweetness level: ☆☆☆☆☆]

[Feel-good level: ☆☆☆☆☆]

[Couple: Extremely nearsighted, silly female fortune-teller VS aloof disciple who sees everything but never calls her out]

Also known as [The demon-world lord who alternates between aloof, silly, and totally weird VS the gentle, devoted Heavenly Emperor]

The leader of the Three-No's Taoist temple on a mountain full of spiritual energy, Daoist Moxin, recently took on a disciple.

Aside from being handsome and having a tough fate, the disciple had no particular talents or aptitude. Yet Daoist Moxin was delighted with him and took him along almost every day.

The neighboring immortal sect saw her wasting such a mountain and its spiritual energy without teaching her disciple to cultivate, and they were furious with her for failing to make use of his potential.

Daoist Moxin, who couldn't cultivate because of her health, only smiled and said nothing as she flicked her horsetail whisk.

She thought: What do you know? My disciple has a tough fate! Keeping him nearby wards off evil!

Wuxiang's fate was so tough that by the time he was eight, he had already brought misfortune to nearly everyone and everything he could.

One night, the villagers, enraged, decided to drive him out of Lihua Village. Just then, a female Daoist priest came running from the village entrance, drenched in sweat. She hugged Wuxiang and showered him with praise. "My disciple! You're my bodyguard, I mean, my precious disciple!"

Later, after their secret identities were exposed and they became archrivals again, the master and disciple stood on the peak of the immortal mountain, each leading disciples from their own faction, glaring at one another.

The war between heaven and demons from thousands of years ago was about to begin again:

The heavenly and demonic disciples, who couldn't stand each other, glared viciously and cheered on their leaders:

--What are you looking at?

--You got a problem?

Demon Lord Moxin widened her eyes, puffed out her chest, and snarled, "Heavenly Emperor, is pretending to be human fun? Was banishing me to the mortal realm not enough? Now you want to pretend to be my disciple and finish me off?" (The minions are watching. Show some authority! Let's hurry up and finish this so we can go home and eat!)

Heavenly Emperor Wuxiang: "..."

With no other choice, Wuxiang held his sword across his chest and played along as best he could. "Demon Lord, are you trying to fight me again?"

When the scene descended into chaos again, Moxin faked her death, grabbed her disciple, and ran. "Come on, let's go eat!"

Theme: Marriage takes more than a good match between families. Being in tune with each other and right for one another matters most.