Winning Over My Wife Is No Easy Feat (Matriarchy)

[Main story complete, bonus chapters updating slowly]

[One-on-one romance, old-school angst, the male lead suffers without mercy, straightforward happy ending, read with caution]

Ling Xiao'er regretted one thing more than anything in his life: getting involved with his prospective stepdaughter, Wei Wan. He worked himself to the bone and spent every day on edge, hoping Wei Wan would take pity on him and keep cherishing him, so he could live out his days in wealth and luxury.

But what happened? Wei Wan soon grew tired of him. Not only did she plan to marry a well-matched young man from a prominent family, she also intended to send Ling Xiao'er to an outlying estate to spend the rest of his life in hardship!

Biting his handkerchief, he hid behind a large pillar and watched Wei Wan exchange flirtatious glances with that young man. He wiped his swollen, tearful eyes and decided to find another powerful patron to cling to.

Ling Xiao'er planned everything carefully, and he was only one step away. He was just about to take off his clothes when the door was kicked open. Wei Wan brought a group of people in, had him and his new potential patron tied up tight, and ordered someone to throw him into the ancestral hall.

He curled up in a corner of the hall and sobbed all night, regretting that he hadn't planned more carefully and had let himself get caught. His hopes of wealth and luxury had vanished, and now he was going to lose his life too.

He cried until he fell asleep.

Ling Xiao'er woke again when someone splashed him with cold water. He opened his eyes groggily and saw Wei Wan, that black-hearted lotus, standing in the middle of the ancestral hall like a jade-faced King of Hell. A female servant beside her was holding a bowl of dark medicine!

He scrambled toward Wei Wan, afraid that if he moved too slowly and angered her, she would make him drink that bowl of medicine.

Ling Xiao'er raised his head, tears filling his eyes, and pleaded in a trembling voice:

"Mistress, I know I was wrong. Please sell me off!"

The head of the Wei family bent down, holding the bowl of medicine. She tipped up his chin and smiled warmly, her brows curved. But her dark phoenix eyes were enough to chill anyone to the bone.

"Ling Xiao'er, now that you're carrying my child, whose bed do you think you can climb into?"

Character setup:

A stunning female lead, ethereal on the outside but rotten within and always putting her interests first, paired with a foolish, gullible male lead who has nothing going for him except his looks.

A melodramatic story.

One-on-one, happy ending. See the reader's guide at the bottom!

This story is under 200,000 characters, and goes premium after 60,000.

Completed

Reforming a Scumbag, Finding a Female A (Female A, Male O)

Female A, male O, old-school male-lead angst.

Chu Sheng was an irritable alpha, uneducated and lawless, using his family's modest wealth as an excuse to do whatever he pleased. He wantonly toyed with other people's feelings, making everyone hate him, though they could do nothing about it.

Until, at the age of twenty, he provoked Shen Sui, the Empire's Rose Duke.

When he woke up, the Chu family was bankrupt, he had been transformed from an alpha into an omega, and he had become Shen Sui's secret plaything.

In the first year, he charged at Shen Sui with a knife, only to be permanently marked by her, stripped of his claws and fangs, and left unable to resist.

In the second year, he tried to escape while heavily pregnant, but his enemies caught him, broke his leg, and sent him to Shen Sui. Shen Sui tenderly stroked the corner of his eye, mocked him as useless, and told him to behave from then on.

In the third year, his rough edges finally worn away, he followed his omega instincts and limped to Shen Sui with their month-old baby in his arms, only to find Shen Sui holding a younger, sweeter omega, her eyes full of affection.

In the fourth year, at one of the duke's banquets, his old friends saw him again after he had long since disappeared.

The once-arrogant man knelt timidly beside the beautiful, seductive duke. An omega bite guard encircled his slender neck, his belly bulged slightly, and he clung cautiously to the duke's hand with reddened eyes.

"Y-You promised me that after I gave birth to one child, I wouldn't have to do it again. You... you can't lie to me."

Hearing this, the duke smiled and pulled him into her arms. She removed his black collar and casually pressed his battered gland, offering a perfunctory reassurance: "Be good. What kind of omega doesn't have children?"

He let out a despairing sob and buried himself in the duke's embrace. In full view of everyone, his thin hands clung tightly around her waist, his back trembling as he wept uncontrollably.

A scheming, beautiful alpha female lead x an irritable, spoiled male lead who starts as an alpha and is transformed into an omega.

Reader's guide:

1. The male lead was originally a servant boy bought by the female lead's mother. The day before he was supposed to enter the household, the female lead's mother suddenly died, so he is essentially a servant in the female lead's home. There is no false blood relationship.

2. The male lead is a virgin; the female lead is not. One-on-one, happy ending. The woman is strong and the man is weak. A melodramatic, angsty story about a fitting pair.

(The female lead is a heartless scoundrel, and the male lead suffers terribly. But later, the female lead only has to coax him once and he's immediately a hopeless romantic again.)

3. Both leads have point-of-view chapters. The male lead's chapters mostly involve suffering and getting himself into trouble, while the female lead's focus on her career and bullying him. Later, the female lead pursues her husband and has a bathhouse scene. It is not part of the blurb's events.

4. Male pregnancy. Male pregnancy. The first child is miscarried, and it is not an accident.

5. I'm writing freely. This isn't a sweet romance; I just want to write an old-school melodrama.

6. The characters' values do not represent the author's. Friendly discussion is welcome.

7. Once again, this is an over-the-top melodramatic mix, and the story is all about letting loose!

8. I won't delete comments from readers. If yours is gone, an administrator may have removed it.

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