Marrying the General Who Brings His Wives Misfortune

My new novel, On How to Have a Happy Ending with Your Childhood Friend After He Turns into a Monster, is now out!

The young master of the Feng family of Jinling, Feng Changsheng, had yet to reach twenty and carried an air of aloof detachment. But the day before the imperial examinations results were posted, at a poetry gathering, he stained the white hem of his robe red in full view of everyone. Those present all assumed the young master was actually a woman in disguise, which explained why he was as beautiful as one.

Three years ago, when Feng Changsheng was fourteen, he began menstruating without understanding what it meant.

Afraid of angering his father and clinging to a little hope, his mother told him that all men menstruated and ordered him never to mention it to his father.

Now, seeing the shock in everyone's eyes, Feng Changsheng finally learns that men do not menstruate. His mother had deceived him; he must be a woman.

He is flustered and mortified, more humiliated than he has ever been in his life.

After fleeing home in a panic, he learns from his mother that he is actually intersex.

The news inevitably reaches his father, who feels utterly disgraced and beats him black and blue.

Next, his fiancee, the daughter of a high-ranking official, unhesitatingly sends someone to break off their engagement.

Then he is thrown into prison for the crime of deceiving the emperor.

At midnight, someone enters his cell and asks, "Would you be willing to become mine?"

The man is Shang Jingzhi, the renowned Ghost-Faced General, feared by spirits and men alike. Rumor has it that a year ago he suffered a grave injury and can no longer perform as a man.

To protect himself and his family, Feng Changsheng has no choice but to agree.

Twenty-nine years ago, Shang Jingzhi came into the world and caused his mother's death in childbirth.

Three years ago, he went even further, killing not only all his own family but also the people of an entire city.

Two years ago, he caused the deaths of two women he was engaged to, before they could marry him.

A year and a half ago, his third fiancee, afraid he would bring about her death, ran away from their wedding.

A year ago, he narrowly escaped death, only to discover he could no longer perform as a man.

Half a day ago, he was drinking alone in a tavern when he glanced down and saw Feng Changsheng standing amid a crowd in white, stained crimson. The young man looked panicked, but was pretending to be calm. Shang Jingzhi found him both adorable and pitiful, and then felt himself stir.

He decided on the spot to make Feng Changsheng his.

Later, as they lie close together, Feng Changsheng softly asks, "Why won't you marry me?"

Shang Jingzhi answers, "I am a lone star of ill fate. I must not marry you."

Feng Changsheng bites his earlobe gently. "A wandering monk once foretold that my fate is strong, and that I'm just the one to cure a lone star of ill fate like you."

New novel: On How to Have a Happy Ending with Your Childhood Friend After He Turns into a Monster

Blurb:

In a dim alley, it captured a boy: pale, beautiful, and delicious.

It eagerly wrapped its thickest tentacle around the boy's waist. If it squeezed hard enough to snap him in two, would the organs spilling out be as beautiful as his face?

Unlike its kind, it was not voracious. It could not even remember the last time it had eaten a human.

But now it was ravenous and desperately needed to feed.

A slick, cool tentacle caressed the boy's lips, then forced them apart.

The boy's tongue was crimson, like the Oriental poppy swaying in the bright sunlight that sometimes appeared in its mind.

It was momentarily dazed, and its remaining tentacles instinctively covered the boy's body.

So much slime made the boy utterly damp, and coated him in its scent, making him even more delicious.

Its stomach could not stop urging it on: Eat, eat!

Many of its kind liked to eat from the inside out. They said it made the food more delicious.

It wanted to try, too.

So its tentacle slipped into the boy's mouth.

The boy seemed to say something.

It paused, and only after a moment did it make out the words: "Don't leave me."

What a strange human, asking a monster that eats people not to leave.

Of course it would not leave. It was about to eat the boy without leaving a single morsel behind.

One tentacle after another slipped into the boy's mouth. His face flushed red, and he did not resist at all, only repeating, "Don't leave me."

It glanced at the badge on the boy's chest, the emblem of the Monster Extermination Bureau, and wondered: is he trying to make me lower my guard, then kill me when I am not paying attention?

But the boy remained docile, gazing at it with tearful eyes as if it were his whole world.

It could not help softening toward him, though monsters were not supposed to feel that way.

It would wait until its heart stopped softening, and until the boy had grown a little fatter, before eating him. That was what it thought.

At the same time, it suddenly heard the boy confess, "I love you. Don't leave me."

A human loves a monster?

Could this beautiful human be an idiot?

Years later, when it takes the human it once regarded as food into its arms, every one of its tentacles trembles. It kisses its human with boundless devotion. "I love you. Don't leave me."

Theme: Life always has its ups and downs. Stay humble when things go well, and neither abase yourself nor grow resentful when they don't, and you will find your way to the end.