A Guide to Taming a Stray Dog [Reborn]

This novel is also known as My Future CEO Husband Teaches Me How to Win Him Over

Gu Qingyi lost both her parents and had to live under other people's roofs from a young age. But she was cheerful and optimistic, excelled in her studies, and often worked part-time in her spare time.

Her greatest wish was to grow up, earn lots and lots of money, buy a little house of her own, and keep a cat.

It seemed heaven had heard her wish. When she was seventeen, a stranger suddenly appeared among her contacts and began sending her money every week, with plenty of zeroes each time.

Suspicious of this windfall, Gu Qingyi called to ask if he was running a scam.

"Don't worry. The money is for your living expenses. If it's not enough, just ask me for more."

His voice was deep and resonant, as pleasing and far-reaching as a cello. He sounded like a successful, mature man around thirty.

Gu Qingyi didn't believe anyone in real life would give her kindness without expecting anything in return, unless...

"Are you my dad?"

The man paused, then laughed. "I suppose I could be."

And just like that, Gu Qingyi acquired a rich dad she'd never met.

It took Gu Qingyi just two weeks to go from being wary of him to trusting him, and even relying on him.

Her rich dad was like a great prophet. Whatever he said came true.

For example, he gave her a study guide pinpointing every question and said they would all be on the monthly exam. And sure enough, every question he'd predicted appeared on the test.

For example, he told her to go buy a lottery ticket at three that afternoon, saying she'd definitely win. And she really did win five hundred yuan.

Then one day, she said, "I got bullied outside school today."

Her rich dad replied, "Go find Kuang Ye. He'll protect you."

The same Kuang Ye who was unruly, untamable, and treated fighting as casually as eating and drinking? The school bully who terrified everyone at Qichuan High?

Gu Qingyi shook her head without hesitation. "That guy doesn't look like a decent person. He won't be easy to approach."

Her rich dad said, "He sits by the cafeteria window every day at lunch. Just say this to him... Once you've said it, he'll protect you."

With some hesitation, Gu Qingyi decided to give it a try. The next day at lunch, she carried her lunchbox over to him. "Hi, I have something to tell you."

Kuang Ye was joking around with a few friends, looking relaxed and even a little cocky, with an air that warned people not to mess with him. He thought she was there to confess her feelings. His voice was cold and impatient. "Spit it out."

Gu Qingyi looked nervous but determined. "Could we talk in the little woods nearby? It's awkward with so many people around."

Kuang Ye leaned back in his chair, arms crossed, eyeing her suspiciously. His friends fell silent too, watching with interest.

Kuang Ye jerked his chin. "Say it here if you want to say it."

Gu Qingyi took a deep breath.

"Can you jerk off nine times a day?"

Kuang Ye: "...?"

His friends: "...!"

Gu Qingyi ran off as soon as she said it.

The next afternoon, when she ran into some thugs after school, Kuang Ye really did show up. The moment the thugs saw him, they cowered like mice before a cat and didn't dare come near her again.

Her rich dad's advice really worked!

But Gu Qingyi's happiness didn't last long. Kuang Ye started keeping a very close eye on her.

After seventeen years of doing whatever he wanted, Kuang Ye had finally met his match.

Gu Qingyi could always predict exactly what he was going to do, and she knew him inside out.

From their very first encounter, she'd found a way to get under his skin and take hold of his pride as a boy.

She was like a leash around his neck. A little tug, and he could only bow his head and obey.

Kuang Ye hated being so easily handled by a girl. He was sure she had a strategist advising her from behind the scenes.

One day after school, he cornered Gu Qingyi against the wall of a dark alley.

The dangerous-looking boy twirled a lock of her hair. "Is there someone behind you? Let me meet them."

Since he was so eager to meet her rich dad, Gu Qingyi figured there was no harm in it.

She called her rich dad right there and told him about the situation.

Then she handed her phone to Kuang Ye. "My dad wants to talk to you."

Kuang Ye raised one eyebrow. "Meeting the parents already? Isn't that a bit soon?"

But after he took the call, he froze in place like he was meditating, not moving an inch.

Gu Qingyi had no idea what her rich dad had said to Kuang Ye. After that, Kuang Ye became very well-behaved around her. He still had a dog's temper, but at least he wasn't as obnoxious.

Later, when she asked him about it, Kuang Ye muttered, "Your dad told me to learn from you. If I come in last again on this monthly exam, he'll blow my brains out."

"..."

Was her refined, gentle rich dad really that ruthless?

Gu Qingyi didn't know that her rich dad was her husband ten years in the future: Kuang Ye, a rising technology star in the business world.

Ten years later, Kuang Ye and Gu Qingyi met through a matchmaking arrangement and got married. They often argued. She thought he was domineering, and he thought she was haughty. Even though they loved each other, they were always finding fault with each other, and it was common for them to share a bed while keeping their hearts apart.

Then Gu Qingyi died in an accident, and Kuang Ye suddenly realized he'd bought a cat but never got the chance to give it to her.

There were so many things they still hadn't done, and so many wishes they hadn't fulfilled.

While sorting through his wife's belongings, Kuang Ye found an old mobile phone.

There was a number saved on it, and he discovered he could use it to communicate with his wife ten years in the past, when she was still a student.

They'd gone to the same high school, but their paths had never crossed. He knew, though, that she'd been unhappy as a student.

Kuang Ye picked up this phone that could reach across time and began contacting Gu Qingyi ten years in the past.

He talked to her, sent her money for living expenses, treated her wholeheartedly, and even taught her how to pursue his younger self.

He wanted to make up, little by little, for all the regrets he'd left behind. That way, one day, his wife would find her way home again.

[Steady, mischievous top student and good girl x cocky, carefree troublemaker x mature, refined future husband]

Theme: Women should be independent and strong if they want to make their way in the world