My Husband's Gentle Blade

[Please read the reading tips before you start, as they contain content warnings.]

After Jin Xiao loses her memory and falls into the pleasure quarters, she is fortunate enough to be rescued by a young master surnamed Pei.

He is refined and cultured, gentle and considerate, and doesn't care about her background. He marries her with all the rites due a primary wife.

Their marriage is even blissful, with no disagreements.

Others envy her for marrying an almost perfect husband, and Jin Xiao often responds with a bashful smile.

Later, she follows her husband, Pei Lang, to the capital, but can no longer smile.

It turns out he is the second son of the Duke of Xian's family, with a prominent background utterly beyond her reach. He was even married already. The real Madam Pei is noble-born and peerlessly beautiful, a perfect match for him.

Worse still, Jin Xiao discovers that she and Madam Pei look somewhat alike.

At last, she understands. His supposed affection must have been false. He was only treating her as a substitute.

No wonder he coaxed her into taking contraceptive soup.

**

Jin Xiao doesn't know that Pei Yu knew her before she had this name.

They met by chance in Yangzhou, and while she had amnesia, he tricked her into falling in love with him.

Pei Yu has always been used to taking what he wants, feeding on her love to nourish his barren heart.

As for her repeated misunderstandings and tears, he never took them to heart.

She loved him so much. She would always forgive him.

He never imagined that Jin Xiao would truly be willing to leave him.

Nor did he expect to lie awake night after night because of her, his lovesickness turning into a sickness of the heart...

Reading tips:

1. The hero has no wife or concubines, is ill, and has a strong desire to control.

2. The heroine is not a substitute. She falls hard quickly, and falls out of love just as quickly.

3. Both leads are virgins. One-on-one, with a hero who has to win his wife back.

----Upcoming story: This Maid-in-Waiting Is Pretty Good----

◎ A powerful minister in poor health who retires at thirty

◎ A healthy, cheerful little maid

The whole Pei household says:

The master's health is in a terrible state. The Old Madam is searching everywhere for a suitable woman to send to the master's room, so the Pei family can have an heir.

Passing by, the young cook A Jiu shakes her head. "Sounds like finding a sow a boar."

The master, bundled in a thick cloak and clutching a hand warmer even though autumn has just begun: "..."

That very night, A Jiu is sent to the master's bedchamber.

A Jiu is a country girl who can eat three bowls of rice at a sitting and has a remarkably loud voice.

Ask her about kitchen spices and she can talk at length, but serving a pampered master, let alone becoming the future young master's mother, is a bit beyond her abilities.

Everyone in the Pei household, from the Old Madam to the cooks, thinks so.

But instead of being sent away by the master, A Jiu stays night after night.

Later, the young master is born, and the master's health gradually improves.

The Old Madam: "...Well, that works too, I suppose."

[Bonus scene]

That winter, Pei Yan finally no longer has to stay cooped up indoors drinking bitter medicinal broth.

With a grim face, he mounts his horse and gallops through the swirling snow, stopping in front of A Jiu's ox cart.

His gaze is cold as a frosty blade, but his question is pitiful: "It's one thing if you don't want a child. You don't want me either?"

Little Pei, who has been jostled into throwing up in her arms: ?

A Jiu pokes her head out of the ox cart. "Wasn't I supposed to give you an heir? I've done my job, so I can go back to the countryside. My cousin is still waiting... Mm."

Little Pei covers his eyes and runs away.

◎ Both leads are virgins. Age gap warning.

----Thank you for reading----

Theme: Be an honest person.