I Picked Up a Frail Husband (Female-Dominated World)

(Upcoming novel: My Lady Gets Breathless Just Walking. Please add it to your reading list. Shen Yiren has a little secret she can't tell anyone. She can't take too long a stride when she walks. If she walks too fast, she'll be left gasping for breath, and then she'll be able to hear other people's thoughts. The noble ladies of the capital smile on the surface while sneering at her in their hearts. Why does this green tea girl keep hanging around the Duke of Zhenguo's residence? Just look at her putting on that delicate, willow-like act when she walks. It's absolutely sickening. Her cousin, the heir to the Duke of Zhenguo, is always suspecting that she has designs on him. Why is my cousin always blushing? Could she have feelings for me? Hmph, but I don't like these weak women who do nothing but cry. Shen Yiren puts up with it all because she lives under someone else's roof, weak and helpless. By a stroke of bad luck, the heir discovers Shen Yiren's secret ability to read minds. Shen Yiren weeps like a pear blossom in the rain, afraid he'll think she's a demoness and kill her. But her cousin's thoughts are: This is great! I can have my cousin help me interrogate the prisoners! We can solve the tax silver case! The heir at first: Sorry to trouble you, Cousin. Come help me listen to the thoughts of these hardened criminals. The heir later: I can't let those stinking men lay eyes on my wife. I'll interrogate them myself!) [Blurb]: Ji Lu is a strong, steadfast, and rather thick-headed woman. Though she has nothing to her name, she has plenty of brute strength and can work for a living, while saving up a little money to marry a husband. But the men from respectable families all stay tucked away in their boudoirs, so finding herself a husband is no easy task. Fortunately, Heaven takes pity on this widower. One day, after returning home from work, she sees a delicate beauty with exquisite features, as pale as jade, lying sick at the door of her thatched hut. Li Heng is the second son of the Duke of Zhenguo's household, born with an otherworldly elegance and grace. Because the Third Imperial Princess favors him, his legitimate father and elder brother take every opportunity to bully and torment him. He has avoided her time and again, but the Third Imperial Princess clings to him like a venomous snake. At last, his legitimate father and elder brother can take no more. They knock him unconscious in his room and throw him out. When he wakes, he sees a burly woman staring at him without blinking. Ji Lu: From now on, you're my husband. I'll work hard to earn money and get you medicine. Li Heng coughs, frail and delicate, then says with affection in his eyes, Thank you, my wife. Thick-headed tomboy x frail, weepy male lead Upcoming novel: The Azure Ladder (Noble and peerless Grand Princess x aloof scholar from a humble family) When they first meet, she is the lofty Grand Princess, graceful and powerful beyond measure, yet she lives alone in the celestial palace, unbearably lonely. He is merely a poor scholar who struggled his way out of the dirt, studying only to earn a few taels of silver. The only reason she notices this insignificant scholar is that she envies how he can share his life with the person he loves. When they meet again, she is the venomous princess despised by all, in a wretched state and bullied by everyone, eking out a humiliating existence in a ruined palace. He, meanwhile, has become a powerful minister of his age, decisive and ruthless. Everyone says he is a King of Hell returned from the depths of the underworld. Yet on that rainy night, he kneels before the princess's bed, soaked to the skin and utterly devout. I have a request. What is it? I would be the Azure Ladder, carrying Your Highness ever higher, so you may ascend to the heavens once more. [Please Note] 1. No angst. 2. I update daily and am especially diligent. 3. A beautiful, powerful, tragic female lead. A story of mutual salvation. Theme: Keep your feet on the ground and live a simple life.