After the Scum Top Was Forced to Bind Himself to a Win-Back-Your-Ex System

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In this world, there is always a group of scumbag husbands who, for all sorts of reasons, abandon their wives and run away.

To ensure the stability of the many small worlds and uphold social order and good morals, the World Administration Bureau created the Chasing-Wife Crematorium System. Just as the scumbag husbands were planning to abandon their wives and fake their deaths, the System forcibly bound itself to each of them, making them return to their small worlds to face the punishment of the chasing-wife crematorium.

But... why haven't these scumbag husbands been stabbed in the kidneys, the waist, or the heart as the plot dictates? Why aren't they on their knees, weeping and begging their wives for forgiveness? Instead, they're living even better, more comfortable lives?!

Wait, you, the abandoned husband who has given up on your scumbag husband, stop throwing yourself at him! Aaaaaah!!!

The first world:

A cold-hearted, emotionless top-ranked scholar husband x a devoted princess wife

A commoner at dawn, a court official by dusk. Born into a poor family, Cheng Jienong had seen the people's suffering and resolved to enter government through the imperial examinations to ease their hardships. Unexpectedly, after passing the exams, his handsome looks caught the princess's eye. She named him the top-ranked candidate and brought him into the royal family as her consort, cutting off his path to power.

With nowhere to apply his talent and ambition, Cheng Jienong grew resentful of the princess. On their wedding night, he did not even set foot in the bridal chamber, neglecting her while growing close to the hostage prince of Great Yan.

Later, jealous that a former classmate and friend had risen to the highest ranks of government, Cheng Jienong took his anger out on his wife. He allowed his mother to impose rules on the princess, demanding that she visit Qingfeng Courtyard every day to pay her respects, even while pregnant or in the middle of a pregnancy.

The princess soon could no longer endure the abuse. Under the day-and-night torment of Cheng Jienong and his mother, her health steadily declined, and she spent her days in tears. The child she gave birth to later died of smallpox. In the end, she suffered a mental breakdown and divorced Cheng Jienong. Cheng Jienong, dissatisfied that he could not take part in government, secretly colluded with a foreign power to rebel. His plot was discovered, and the emperor ordered him to be torn apart by five horses.

Cheng Jienong accepted his defeat. After entering the underworld, he prepared to enjoy a carefree reincarnation and start his life anew. But before he could drink the soup of forgetfulness, something claiming to be the Chasing-Wife Crematorium System bound itself to him. It said he should not have died so easily. Instead, he should return to the world of the living and repent to his wife, suffering the torment of his conscience day and night, worrying that she might leave him, and ultimately becoming a devoted, obedient dog of a husband who does whatever she says.

Cheng Jienong: "…"

Without a moment's thought, Cheng Jienong tried to refuse, but he kicked the System back into the world of the living. He was reborn just as the princess, having lost their child and lost all hope in Cheng Jienong, was preparing to divorce him.

The System thought it would see Cheng Jienong, having died once, regret everything so deeply that his guts turned to mush as he begged the princess for forgiveness without a shred of dignity. But not only did Cheng Jienong do no such thing, he watched as the princess leaned against him, still looking at him with trust and dependence.

System: "…???"

What was that supposed to mean?

The second world:

A greedy local male Zerg husband x a well-behaved female Zerg wife

Darian, a local male Zerg who lived off others, tricked a female Zerg prince into marrying him. After the wedding, he broke his promise to be faithful to one partner for life, taking a whole group of female consorts. He even let them offend his primary spouse, causing the latter to lose their Zergling by accident.

In the end, the wave of gender equality swept over Darian, and angry female Zergs executed him. The System then bound itself to Darian's soul and made him reborn just before his execution.

The System assumed Darian's primary spouse would hate him to the bone and take brutal revenge. Darian could only watch as his spouse fell into the arms of another male Zerg who had transmigrated from Earth, his heart aching with grief. But much later, seeing Darian with a thriving career and a happy home with his wife and children, the System said:

"…Where's the chasing-wife crematorium we were promised?!"

Other worlds to be decided.

1. Relaunch of an older novel, with revisions to the blurb and the setting.

2. System + episodic stories.

3. The character dynamic is consistent throughout: scumbag husband x devoted wife.

Pre-release: A Guide to Supporting a Beloved Wife II

A series of stories with a male protagonist.

First story: A cheerful, pampered young master of a husband x a forced-to-be-fierce, beloved wife

Jiang Mingzhao was a notorious young master in the capital.

He skipped class, drank, fought crickets, and visited brothels. He was a thoroughly spoiled young master, good at neither literature nor martial arts.

Everyone said the Zhongyong Marquis household was full of loyal and upright people. The marquis and his wife guarded the border year-round, serving their country. Their eldest son was a pillar of the state, an incorruptible official, and their legitimate daughter had married into the palace, where she was virtuous and refined. Everything was as perfect as could be, but somehow, when it came to Jiang Mingzhao, the family style went awry.

The Zhongyong Marquis household had endured no end of gossip behind their backs because of him. Whenever the marquis saw his second son acting so disgracefully, he tried to discipline him, even breaking several bamboo switches, but he still couldn't rein in Jiang Mingzhao's restless spirit. Jiang Mingzhao continued to carouse outside and get himself into trouble. By the time he was twenty, not a single male-male spouse in the capital was willing to marry him.

With his son on the verge of becoming an old bachelor, Madam Jiang had no choice but to swallow her pride and use the family's military service to petition for an imperial decree arranging a marriage between Jiang Mingzhao and the prime minister's legitimate male-male child.

When Jiang Mingzhao heard that the legitimate child was reserved and dull, he assumed he would be a bore. He threw a tantrum and refused to marry him, and even after their engagement, he continued to carouse outside.

On their wedding night, Jiang Mingzhao was still at a tavern, flirting with women, when, just as he was sitting with an arm around each of two companions, a bucket of icy water was suddenly thrown in his face.

Jiang Mingzhao jerked his head up in alarm. A delicate beauty in red, as slender as a willow in the breeze, stood holding a wooden bucket, expressionless as he poured cold water over Jiang Mingzhao's head.

Furious, Jiang Mingzhao was about to explode when the beauty drew the sword at his waist and pressed it against the base of Jiang Mingzhao's abdomen, saying each word distinctly:

"If it doesn't belong to me, I'll cut it off."

Jiang Mingzhao: "…"

Mercy, beautiful sir!

Later, whether Jiang Mingzhao was studying at the Imperial Academy or going to war, right up to the day he rose to the Three Excellencies, The Outcast, his wife Yuan Yuan was always by his side.

Someone once asked Jiang Mingzhao how he had gone from a young master everyone despised to the powerful Minister of the Secretariat. Jiang Mingzhao only rubbed his ear and carefully glanced at Yuan Yuan, who was smiling as if she knew something.

"There's no special reason." After more than ten years as an official, Minister Jiang, who would not so much as bat an eye when Mount Tai collapsed in front of him, now looked guilty as he mumbled:

"It's just that... I'm afraid of my wife."

The second story is to be decided.

Theme: Set lofty ideals and build a beautiful country.