A Live-In Son-in-Law Must Know His Place

A strange blurb:

A mildly matriarchal setting, no original worldbuilding. The heroine is straight and a strong female lead. The hero is hopelessly in love and spends his time missing his wife, crying and wailing like a little puppy.

The heroine faces no major upheavals. The hero is destined to be beautiful, powerful, and tragic. He's very beautiful, very powerful, and truly miserable.

At first the hero is weak, sitting at home and getting bullied. Later, he'll make a comeback, fight, kill, pacify the realm, and hold power over the court.

But he'll still be crying and wailing like a little puppy because he misses his wife.

[He can rule the realm when needed, or stay home to do laundry and raise the children. Mu Lin changed his name to take his wife's surname: “A Yin, you can't leave me this time.”]

The proper blurb:

Mu Lin was once a spirited top scholar. Now he is blind in one eye and has a crippled leg.

Not only has he lost his official distinction, he has become a cripple.

After enduring half a year in his own courtyard, he finally couldn't take it anymore. His elder brother and sister-in-law married him into the Lu family, a family of imperial merchants, for ten thousand taels of silver.

The woman he was “married” to was the Lu family's famously unruly and willful second daughter, Lu Wenyin, who had not a trace of feminine manners.

Lu Wenyin likes wearing men's clothes and has a quick temper. Faced with a disabled husband like this, all she wants is a divorce.

Mu Lin figures that Puji Temple doesn't accept disabled monks and Lean Hall doesn't take in grown-up orphans. To avoid begging outside the City God Temple, he decides to do his best to survive in this household.

Besides...

“Madam may be fierce to other people, but she's very different with me.”

A disabled, insecure, self-deprecating, secretly ruthless top scholar VS an independent, strong-willed heroine who's tough on the outside and soft inside

From a strong heroine and a weak hero to two equally strong leads.

Hero's point of view, with the hero pursuing the heroine.

The hero will recover in the middle and later parts of the story!

One-on-one romance, both leads are virgins. The hero is sincerely devoted and hopelessly in love, while the heroine is as straight-laced as they come and misses all the signs.

There will be some court politics. The author has no outline, so the story may wander a little, but the ending is definitely happy.

Mu Lin sat beneath the covered walkway, wrapped in a fox-fur cloak, and pondered. “I love Madam so much. I've done all this, but she still hasn't come to see me. Tell me, what kind of man does Madam actually like?”

The maid Yunque was just as deep in thought beside him. “Does Madam... even like men?”

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P.S. There's also a fantasy BL novel open for preorders next door, Everything Fear Comes from Insufficient Firepower. If you don't mind the genre, feel free to take a look.

P.P.S. I know my books don't sell, but even a salted fish needs dreams. For example, if I keep writing, one day I'll earn enough to pay the electricity bill.

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