My Master and I Shed Our Robes

■ The groveling chase after his wife | A rivals-for-her harem battlefield | GB-leaning BDSM

Meng Haiyao made a pact with her master to meet again in three lifetimes.

[First Life]

The two kingdoms go to war. Princess Meng Junke personally rides into battle and captures an enemy prince renowned as the "Northern Wei War Hawk." She lifts his chin, studies him for a long while, then laughs softly and secretly stashes him in her chambers along with her other spoils of war.

She disciplines him by day and trains him every night.

But on the day of the princess's wedding, the enemy prince appears in wedding robes, looking up at the person above him with pleading eyes.

He's here to steal the bride.

[Second Life]

The only daughter of a butcher in the eastern part of town, Meng Yu inherits the family trade and wields a boning knife with astonishing skill. After she dies, she uses that talent to climb the ranks in the underworld and make a name for herself.

Then one day, her lackeys rush in to report that a refined, scholarly new arrival in the underworld is insisting that he is her lawfully wedded husband.

Meng Yu is horrified, assuming he's trying to curry favor with someone important and make a fraudulent claim.

Only later does she find out that her father, worried she would have no one to care for her in the afterlife, spent a fortune to buy the sickly son of a scholar from the western part of town as a live-in son-in-law for the Meng family. He waited two years for the man to die, then happily had his body carried over with gongs and drums for a ghost marriage to his daughter.

[Third Life]

Everyone says she's his stepmother.

So what?

After three lifetimes and a dream of yellow millet, Meng Haiyao smiles and asks Yu Yuan, "Master, are you willing to be my cultivation partner now?"

Yu Yuan lowers his eyes and says nothing.

Meng Haiyao smiles freely and gives him a solemn disciple's bow. "Your disciple will keep her promise. The three lifetimes have passed, and were no more than a fleeting dream. From now on, I have only the affection between master and disciple for you."

But when Meng Haiyao is about to go on a romantic date with someone else, Yu Yuan stubbornly blocks her way. Seeing her bewildered, dark eyes, he closes his eyes and curls his fingers. "I... regret it."

Reader's Notes:

1. The male lead is very strong, but the female lead is stronger. She's a powerful heroine who pursues both love and career.

2. At first, the male lead is an immortal who is pure-hearted and desires nothing, with a lifespan as long as Heaven's. After taking the female lead as his disciple, he becomes a doting father figure who gives her anything she wants. After she helps the second male lead take his place, he eventually turns into an obsessive, crazed man who chases after her.

3. The female lead isn't a paragon. Her career matters more than romance, and she'll use either man if it suits her.

4. The first life is relatively long because it includes the career storyline. The pace gets much faster afterward. Things get really exciting from the third life onward, with romantic tension and a battlefield of rivals for her, all trying to tear each other's hair out. If that's your thing, feel free to start there. If it's not exciting, go ahead and curse me out~

----- Pre-release novel: She Turned the Earth Upside Down. Please add it to your reading list. Blurb:

On February 33, 2333, Ai Bin posted a help thread on the interstellar network: Guys, I think I just turned the Earth upside down. What should I do? I'm waiting for answers, and it's kind of urgent.

Theme: Pursuing power and profit isn't a privilege reserved for men.