A Marriage to Bring Good Fortune: He Climbs to the Top on Strength Alone

Ye Weining had suffered from illness since childhood. A fortune-teller said that the age of twenty-four would be a hurdle in his life, so Grandpa Ye chose a sturdy grandson-in-law for his eldest grandson to bring him good luck!

Looking at the tall, broad-shouldered, dark-skinned man before him, Young Master Ye furrowed his delicate brows. A bit too sturdy, wasn't he?

He raised his head slightly and finally got a clear look at the man's face. Unhappy, he said, "You're Jiang Shen? Go tell my grandfather you don't want to marry me."

Jiang Shen looked straight into his beautiful eyes. "Rather than asking me to back out, why don't you try persuading Old Master Ye?"

Ye Weining couldn't persuade his grandfather. With no other choice, the wedding went ahead as planned.

On their wedding night, Ye Weining prepared fourteen pages of rules for the bedroom, right down to the requirement that breathing sounds while sleeping must not exceed 35 decibels.

Before he could hand the "rules" to Jiang Shen, Jiang Shen pulled out a stack of paper three times thicker than the one in his hands.

Ye Weining's expression stiffened. "You wrote up rules too?"

Jiang Shen looked puzzled. "What rules? This is my summer homework. School starts in a week."

Ye Weining's expression cracked. Looking at Jiang Shen, 189 centimeters tall and dressed in a suit, he suddenly remembered that the other man was nineteen and in his final year of high school.

*

Ye Weining had a refined, beautiful face, but the gloom between his brows kept people at a distance. He was always dressed in a black suit, with a gentleman's cane in hand. The only bright touch was the silver-gray brooch pinned over his heart.

The two had met once before the wedding. When Jiang Shen saw him coughing, he offered him some water. Before he could get close, the cool gray cane pressed against his chest. "Don't come near me."

Jiang Shen glanced at the cane and grabbed it. Ye Weining, who had been two meters away, was pulled right up against him. "Drink."

The sudden closeness made Ye Weining angry and embarrassed. Color rose in his pale face. "Let go!"

*

Later...

Ye Weining had thought the marriage meant giving in to the demand to bring him good luck. He hadn't expected his health to actually improve. His usually pale, refined face now had some color in it.

Especially whenever he saw a certain dark-skinned man in a white T-shirt, the thin fabric faintly outlining his full, well-defined abs and lean, powerful waist...

Jiang Shen noticed Ye Weining's lingering gaze and smiled.

His bronze hand gently stroked Ye Weining's long, pale neck. Looking down at him, he said, "Mr. Ye, your face is very red."

Ye Weining's cool hand rested on his abs. "Is it? It's just hot out."

Jiang Shen's breathing grew heavier. "Mr. Ye, I'd like to change a few rules."

Ye Weining: "What rules?"

"Those fourteen pages of bedroom rules you wrote on our wedding night." Jiang Shen leaned closer.

Ye Weining looked up at him. What should he do? His dark-skinned "wife" seemed kind of irresistible!

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Le Shao had a baby face and was soft, fair, and pretty, with a little dimple when he smiled.

At the urging of his friends, Le Shao bet that he could sleep with Zhang Jingyao, the famously aloof top student in the architecture department, within a month.

During that month, Le Shao tried every possible stunt, but couldn't get so much as a glance from him.

With only the final day left, Le Shao resorted to a little trick. He planned to get Zhang Jingyao drunk and take a photo, just to fool his friends.

But the plan backfired, and the act became real.

The next day, while suffering from a sore waist and aching legs, Le Shao recovered a memory. It turned out he was a character in a book.

Zhang Jingyao was the book's main villain, sinister and ruthless later on, so formidable that even the male lead avoided crossing him. And Zhang Jingyao had known about Le Shao's bet with his friends from the very first day!

In the book, though, before Le Shao could carry out his plan to get Zhang Jingyao drunk, Zhang Jingyao beat him badly enough to land him in the hospital.

Le Shao thought, I got beaten up without sleeping with him, and now that I have...

Le Shao panicked and ran away, carrying a belly full of little tadpoles.

*

Four years later, Le Shao had joined the ranks of people whose parents were pressuring them to get married.

At every blind date, Le Shao was asked, "Why did you bring your little brother to a blind date?"

Le Shao: "He's my son!"

Date: "You have a son and you're still going on blind dates? Are you crazy?"

After being thrown out of yet another blind date, Le Shao was teaching his son: "Sweetheart, if Daddy holds your little hand later, that means he's pleased. You should call Daddy 'big brother.' If he pinches your cheek, that means he's not pleased, so you should call Daddy..."

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Le?"

Le Shao looked up and saw Zhang Jingyao, dressed in a suit and radiating a chilly air.

The little one looked at his silly dad, unsure whether he was pleased or not, and called out in a baby voice, "Mommy?"

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