Marrying You Was a Bad Deal

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New book blurb: A chance encounter brings them together. One falls for the other's looks at first sight, while the other accepts a marriage arranged by their parents. Two people who had nothing to do with each other become husband and wife.

Shi Huaying: That year, when I was being forced to marry at the gate, you said you were my child husband?

Kangxi: ...

Kind-hearted neighbor: I think... I was the one who said that.

Shi Huaying: That year, when my family was poor, you said you were a traveling merchant who had to go away often and only came back once in a while.

Kangxi: ...

Kind-hearted neighbor: I think... I said that too.

This is the story of a modern woman who transmigrates to the Kangxi era of the Qing dynasty and, without even realizing it, becomes Kangxi's wife among the common people. What kind of sparks will fly when the two of them come together?

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Blurb:

The heroine: Yan Jing transmigrates to ancient times and becomes the only daughter of the richest family in the land. After spending her whole life poor and dying with nothing to her name, she decides to enjoy a life of wealth this time around.

Marriage is out of the question. She wants to take in a husband instead. To continue the Yan family line, the whole family decides to move to the capital. But not long after they cross into the capital's territory, an unexpected accident causes her and a strange man to switch souls.

When she wakes up, she's become the Heir of the Northern Border Prince. But can someone tell her why a dignified prince's residence is so short on money?

She's forced to eat plain porridge and vegetables at every meal, without a single piece of meat. Her clothes are old, there's no ice in summer, and they skimp on charcoal in winter. None of this compares to her own home.

She wants to return to her original body, but that man's tongue is so sharp that he can always get under her skin. After finally managing to rein in her temper, she goes with him to temples and Taoist monasteries to find eminent monks and old Taoists who can solve their soul-swapping problem. Not one of them is any help, and she nearly finds herself falling for him.

After staying in a man's body for so long, she even starts having the reactions a man should have, and the person she's attracted to is Xiao Chuhe, who's occupying her body. This is ridiculous.

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The hero: Xiao Chuhe wakes up to discover that he's changed from a man into a woman, and he can't accept it at all.

"Don't hold me back! Let me die!"

After being dejected for a long time, he gradually realizes that being a woman isn't so bad after all. He can spend someone else's money, use someone else's maids, live in someone else's home, and enjoy someone else's father's affection. Life is great. Why would he want to go back to being himself?

In his eyes, Miss Yan, who was spoiled, willful, and unreasonable from childhood, surely couldn't handle the drop from wealth to poverty.

Until one day at a banquet, he saw her calmly pack up every dish she'd barely touched and take it all back to the prince's residence.

"Sigh, what can I do? My father and mother care so much about the soldiers guarding the border that they don't even care about their only son. Every year, they send the court's stipend for the prince's household to the border, leaving me unable to get a proper meal at home."

Xiao Chuhe's face turned livid as he listened. From that day on, he secretly watched Yan Jing.

He discovered that she could be pampered, but could also fend for herself and live frugally.

It turned out that her willfulness wasn't her true nature, but a way of protecting herself.

It turned out that her unreasonable behavior was directed only at him.

It turned out...

It turned out that, without realizing when it happened, he had fallen in love with her.

A little scene:

Yan Jing walked up and stared down at Xiao Chuhe. "Tell me! Did you see everything? Did you even touch it?"

Xiao Chuhe panicked under her gaze and lowered his head. For the first time, he felt ashamed, though of course he couldn't tell her the truth to her face.

He couldn't exactly tell her that while bathing, he hadn't just scrubbed her with his hands, but had also admired her whole body in the bronze mirror while getting dressed.

Her skin really was so soft and smooth, and her figure so well-proportioned. He couldn't get enough of looking at it.

Xiao Chuhe lowered his head and said nothing, while Yan Jing was already on the verge of exploding.

It was all right if she looked at other people's bodies, but it wasn't all right for Xiao Chuhe to look at hers.

A man doesn't lose anything by being seen naked, but a woman loses a lot, especially when it's her own body!

When Xiao Chuhe didn't answer for a long time, Yan Jing lost patience and pressed him again. "Tell me, did you see everything?"

Xiao Chuhe replied meekly, "You can look at mine too. That way, neither of us loses out."

Yan Jing laughed angrily. She leaned close to Xiao Chuhe and lowered her voice. "Xiao Chuhe, are you forcing me to flash you?"

Coming soon: "The Stepmother's Daily Life in the Inner Palace," originally titled "The Sacrificial Princess's Struggle to Survive in the Inner Palace."

Theme: Learn to understand and respect one another