The Charming Concubine-Born Son and the Imperial Merchant Wife (Women’s Kingdom)

P.S. The male lead is a virgin, the female lead is not. The man can bear children.

A seductive temptress who goes to great lengths to seduce him × a shrewd merchant who knows exactly what's going on but pretends to be cold

Blurb:

Male lead:

Li Qinghuan is an illegitimate son of the Vice Minister of Revenue, born to a young lord brought home from a brothel.

His body has been steeped in aphrodisiacs since birth. Just the scent of a woman makes his cheeks flush and his breathing quicken until he can barely walk. Yet he carries a cheap cosmetic fragrance that can ensnare anyone's heart.

Usually, he hides in the inner quarters, pretending to be ugly and stupid so no one discovers his secret.

Who could have known that he'd be framed out of nowhere and branded as someone who seduced his legitimate elder brother's fiancee?

On the way back to the capital to face punishment, he meets a vulgar woman reeking of money. She's terrifyingly fierce, and every raised eyebrow or glare nearly scares him to death.

But he knows that this woman has her eye on his upright, honorable elder brother and that she's a lecher.

After weighing his options, he can only grasp this last lifeline. Marrying a ruthless merchant as her concubine is far better than being sent by his legitimate father to a servant born into the household, all of whose legs are crippled and eyes are blind.

Later, he sways around the woman's neck, his cosmetic fragrance making her mind go hazy. In a soft voice, he asks, "Are you still thinking about my elder brother?"

Xiao Yuan grabs his wrist, looks down at the person in her arms with a darkened gaze, and scolds in a husky voice, "Don't ask questions that aren't your business."

Female lead:

Xiao Yuan is the bastard child of a Han man and a Northern Di woman. She's been around the borderlands since birth. Her parents don't love her, but she's got a sharp mind. She can take sheep from the west side of town and sell them on the east side for twice as much.

When she grows up, she does business all over the country and, along the way, climbs aboard Prince Li's ship to become an imperial merchant.

Across the thirteen prefectures and 162 counties of the Great Xuan Empire, she owns 200 houses and 8,000 qing of fertile land. There's only one thing she's dissatisfied with: even though she's reached thirty, she still doesn't have a husband in her household.

Those other men are just for casual fun. If she's going to marry someone, he has to be an exceptionally noble son of an official family: refined, proper, and dignified, nothing like those low-class goods.

Who knew the Vice Minister Li's family would offer one son as a buy-one-get-one-free deal? One deliberately keeps her wanting more, while the other gives her a come-hither glance and eagerly offers to serve her, like a little fox willingly walking into a wolf's den.

She never makes a deal at a loss.

Completed women-oriented novels:

The Fallen Husband Who Fell into a Bandit Den (a cool, dignified, beautiful husband × a seemingly fierce mad-dog second-in-command of a bandit gang; neither lead is a virgin; the male lead is eight years younger)

After the Fallen Emperor's Consort Clung to Me (a brawling little punk × a cold, aloof imperial consort)

The Stuffy Master Who Fell into a Demon Lair, a short novel (a double agent and young master of the demon sect × a stuffy, indifferent righteous master; both are virgins; the male lead is younger)

Completed women-oriented novels:

The Little Green Tea of a Farming Family (a hyper-competitive female lead × a gold-digging little green tea; P.S. transmigration, both leads are virgins)

The Old Widower Next Door Is Impossible to Woo (modern setting) (a young man who returns home to farm and get rich × a widower raising a child; neither lead is a virgin)

The King's Beloved (a righteous, iron-blooded princess × a beautiful courtesan spy with a tragic fate; the male lead is a virgin, the female lead is not)

Raising an Illegitimate Daughter Is Hard (a vindictive illegitimate daughter scheming to seize the family fortune × a mean, selfish widower who torments his illegitimate daughter)

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