The Hot-Tempered Big Shot Insists on Marrying Me

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An Chu was a poor little thing nobody wanted. He'd lived all alone in a mountain ravine since childhood, with no one to ask after him or look after him, until one day a man claiming to be his father suddenly appeared. The man tricked and coaxed him into coming down from the mountain.

But that father wasn't just a fake, he was rotten to the core. On the second day after bringing An Chu home, An Chu overheard his fake father sharpening a knife and discussing how to sell him to Gu Chiyan, the famous wealthy mogul and rumored devil, as a little bride.

Sell him? And to a man, no less!

No, no, no! He's a boy. One day he'll marry a little bride and have babies. He can't marry a man!

When the plan was exposed, the man who'd played the loving father for just one day showed his vicious side. If An Chu refused to marry, he'd kill him and make buns stuffed with human meat.

Terrified, An Chu cried and fled in the middle of the night to save his life. But a dog chased him, and he fell off a wall, accidentally hurting... that part... just as Gu Chiyan arrived to pick him up and caught him in the act.

An Chu, in agony, looked at the elegant, aloof man before him and let out an unmanly sob.

Huh, this devil looks a lot like the older brother he'd lost years ago!

But this man's aura is so gloomy, and he looks so scary and terrifying. He's nothing like his gentle older brother.

Unable to help himself, An Chu stared at that face as tears poured down like beads from a broken string. "Did you come to catch me and make me into buns?"

The big shot pressed his lips together. "No. I came to marry you."

At that, An Chu cried even harder.

*

Everyone knew Gu Chiyan was aloof and unfeeling, until one day they suddenly noticed a sweet, adorable young boy by his side.

"He's being kept, right? Definitely being kept!"

An Chu QAQ: "I'm not being kept. I've been kidnapped, plain and simple. Sob."

The big shot beside him yanked him into his arms and nipped his ear. "Kidnapped? Keep saying that, little An Chu, and I'll make it a real kidnapping."

Stiff as a board, An Chu focused entirely on the man's very unruly hands. His eyes glistened with tears. "He's threatening me... Sob, he's threatening me..."

*

The woodcutter who'd tricked An Chu into coming down from the mountain couldn't understand why a big shot from the Gu family would search the entire world for a young boy from a mountain ravine.

Then one day, with nowhere else to turn, the woodcutter swallowed his pride and went to see if he could get some money. He happened to see Big Shot Gu holding the boy's hand and gently coaxing him.

"I wasn't trying to trick you. I didn't expect you to keep thinking of me as your real older brother."

An Chu bristled like an angry little chick. "So you pretended not to know me and played with my feelings!"

The big shot pinned down his fierce-but-cute little husband. "It's because you insisted on treating me like your older brother..."

"Books say that if someone is older than me and we spend every day together, he's my older brother!" An Chu retorted, chin raised. "You spend every day with me. You can't blame me for getting the wrong idea..."

Gu Chiyan stroked his ear. "Do the books say that we have to be related by blood to be real brothers?"

An Chu thought seriously, then replied with absolute conviction, "They don't."

Gu Chiyan ground his teeth. "Which book? I'll tear it up."

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Yun Xi was the only son of the Grand Tutor. To keep him safe amid political turmoil, his family raised him as a girl from childhood. After struggling through life at home until he was fifteen, he sneaked out to the market with his maid to have some fun.

By bad luck, he caught the eye of Si Yinghuai, heir to the Prince of Hengkang's household, who had gone out looking for amusement.

The heir was famous for being a good-for-nothing, a shameless libertine and a regular at the pleasure houses. Yet at one fleeting glance on the street, he was willing to take a dangerous risk and abduct Yun Xi.

Yun Xi saw the cruelty hidden in his eyes and the chill that clung to him, and knew he was dangerous.

He had to stay away.

To force a marriage, the heir stuffed Yun Xi into a bridal sedan chair and carried him to the prince's estate. When the Yun family heard, they nearly hanged themselves at the gates. The commotion grew until it reached the emperor. On one side was the Prince of Hengkang's son, whose power reached across the court and who commanded a million troops. On the other was Grand Tutor Yun, head of the civil and military officials. The emperor couldn't afford to offend either side.

The emperor made a ruthless decision and sent Si Yinghuai to the border, calling it "training."

Three years later, a new emperor took the throne, and an imperial edict spread throughout the country: I have long loved Yun Xi. I shall take you as my empress.

The Yun family went gray with worry.

This is a man in our family, damn it!

The edict came without pause. Yun Xi took a desperate risk and fled in the middle of the night, but the moment he stepped outside, he was bundled into the imperial phoenix carriage that had come to bring the empress to the palace.

Yun Xi QAQ: "I'm doomed!"

Just as he was about to be forced into marriage, Si Yinghuai, now Prince of Hengkang, returned in a rush.

"I hear Your Majesty plans to marry my wife?" By then, Si Yinghuai had become an entirely different man. An aura of authority surrounded him, and behind him stood a million troops. He had walked through mountains of corpses and seas of blood. "Did it ever occur to you to ask whether I agree?"

The emperor glared furiously. "Absurd! Since when has the empress I plan to marry been your wife?"

Si Wuwang placed a hand on his sword. "I formally asked for his hand, and he rode in my bridal sedan two years ago. He's the one I chose. If Your Majesty insists, then I have no choice but to break my word."

Two years later, the former crown prince, now emperor, looked at the even more formidable Prince of Hengkang and reluctantly gave up his beloved and granted them permission to marry.

Yun Xi, stuffed into a bridal sedan for the third time: Does nobody want to ask what I, the person involved, want?

To stay alive, he lost his appetite and thought only of how to escape.

He ran, Si Yinghuai chased him, and Yun Xi couldn't get away even if he grew wings.

The prince had a beauty by his side but couldn't have him, and grew more and more irritable, watching him like a hawk every day. It looked as though he was about to start forcing his love on him.

Yun Xi trembled. I don't think I can take this!!! QAQ

Theme: Believe that no matter the storms, someone is waiting for you.