Let's Get Married

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[Wei Yu's Version]

Wei Yu was born with a beautiful face, but she was frail and difficult to keep alive. Giving birth would mean trading her life for her child's, so she'd never even considered marriage.

All she wanted was to save enough money to open a little village school with her brother, live a quiet, carefree life, and grow old peacefully.

A man's devotion isn't always a lifesaving medicine. It can also be a deadly poison.

Just look at her mother, who died in childbirth while trying to give her father a son.

Her mother, a runaway slave who had once been given to a powerful man for his amusement, made her swear before she died never to become anyone's servant.

But while her brother was away taking the civil service examination, Wei Yu somehow ended up a servant and was bought by a man.

Wei Yu felt that her brother had died because of her. She didn't want to live, let alone scrape by as a servant.

But all kinds of obstacles kept getting in the way of her attempts to die, so she couldn't even die in peace.

Ah, what was she supposed to do? She was desperate, too.

[Chen Ji's Version]

Born the second son of a farming family that didn't want him, Chen Ji was even less welcome than his older brother.

He took a severance letter, put his head on the line, and spent eight years on the battlefield.

After returning home badly wounded, he thought it would be simple to buy a wife from an official broker and start a family.

But the lovely woman he bought as his wife gave him a blunt wake-up call without a second thought.

By the time he realized how complicated things were, it was already too late.

He was in too deep, and his heart had been in her hands for ages.

One look at Wei Yu, and his life was ruined.

Chen Ji wondered, what could he do? He was already in too deep.

Wife, would you please bloom a little and marry me?

[Content Warning]

1. This is neither sweet nor satisfying. It's a fictional historical setting. Any details that don't fit historical customs are the author's inventions.

2. Life is hard, so keep smiling. This is a pot of wild ideas all stewed together. Take a serving if you like it.

3. A naturally frail, bookish girl who doesn't want to live vs. a retired soldier who has no family ties and wants a family. Love isn't innate; loving you is pure coincidence.

***My new book, The Lazy Fish Was Kidnapped by a Childbearing Plot, is complete. Add it to your favorites if you like it! Here's the synopsis.***

Zhuang Fei can sum up the start of her dream life in another world with one string of questions:

Why, right after I turned down the school heartthrob-and-Cinderella plot, did I get thrown straight into a domineering CEO-and-delicate-white-flower plot?

And not just any plot, but the absurdly melodramatic kind where "after dumping my rich third-generation boyfriend, I slept with his rich second-generation uncle" is the drama within the drama?

The ex-boyfriend is fake, but the uncle is real!

So what's next? Will I get a sweet, silly plot about a domineering CEO's wife running away while pregnant?

Then maybe the sequel can be about a genius baby returning as a powerful CEO?

Zhuang Fei thought, this is too much even for a bath in melodrama.

Later, though, she thought: Actually, this is great.

Because she discovered that when you take this old-fashioned, over-the-top melodrama and give it a fresh twist with her older, powerful leading man, then sprinkle on some down-to-earth cumin,

it tastes even better when she grills it up at her shabby little barbecue stall.

What? You want a lazy fish to run away while pregnant? No way. Not in this lifetime.

Because a lazy fish like her can't even run!

She'd been kidnapped by an absurd childbearing plot, so she decided to lie flat.

Why not? Isn't it wonderful to lie in the arms of her godlike leading man?

[Content Warning]

A socially anxious, reclusive, beautiful little darling who loves to snark vs. an older, down-to-earth, quick-witted godlike big shot. There's a sixteen-year age gap, so proceed with caution if that's an issue.

***My new book, The Academic Prodigy of the Wealthy Family, You Kidnapped the Wrong Person, is now updating. Please add it to your favorites!***

Shi Lu never thought she'd be worth kidnapping. After all, what use could anyone have for a useless, doomed side character?

God, pronounced "kidnapper," answered cheerfully: "Of course you're useful. You're perfect for filling in the plot holes."

Shi Lu, who'd suddenly become a wandering ghost: If only I'd known! I swear I'll never read pirated novels again. I should've beaten my dad and mom, who only knew how to sell their daughter for money!

Shi Lu knew nothing as she was dropped right beside Pei Yuning, who was supposed to be sacrificed by the plot. Again and again, she was born for him, died for him, and slammed into walls for him, helping him complete his mission to save his younger sister.

Shi Lu, the person involved: I die out of nowhere every time, but is this really saving the world? Isn't it just some kind of make-believe game?

Every time she transmigrated, she was either kept by a rich, handsome academic prodigy with gold and silver at her disposal, or doted on by a rich, beautiful little girl, with all her food and drink taken care of. She could even shower a handsome young man with rose petals and use the power of a top student to conquer the stars...

After death, Shi Lu kept getting one shining moment after another.

After being ground under the heel of fate, that little troublemaker, for twenty-five years, the steel-hearted little fairy Shi Lu couldn't believe she was finally this lucky.

As it turned out... she could get even luckier, as long as she didn't give up, and was willing to keep at it, be shameless, and play dirty!

Note: This is a fake Mary Sue, real Gary Stu campus story about raising a kid (not really). The heroine's Mary Sue aura only shines because of the hero's Gary Stu aura. The hero's main job is being an academic prodigy; the heroine's main job is raising a kid.

Theme: Break free from fear and fate. People must save themselves before heaven will help them.