What to Do When Your Husband Can't Perform

[My angsty replacement romance, You're More Like Him with Glasses, is now available. If you're interested, please check it out!]

Xie Shiwei died suddenly from overwork and transmigrated into a cannon-fodder rich young master in a melodramatic novel.

The original owner had relentlessly pursued the protagonist gong, He Qin, and forced him to marry. After the wedding, He Qin and the protagonist shou joined forces with the stepmother, who coveted the family's wealth, to take revenge, leaving the original owner destitute and bereft of family.

He arrived on the day of his wedding to He Qin. Remembering a key plot point, Xie Shiwei thought:

This was a melodramatic novel, and the author's tastes were melodramatic too. He Qin was impotent, and could only last two minutes at most.

From then on, he couldn't help looking at He Qin strangely.

To change the novel's fate, Xie Shiwei put on an Oscar-worthy performance and started acting like a new man.

He Qin said he wouldn't touch him. Xie Shiwei thought, Obviously, and nodded with tears in his eyes. He Qin said they'd divorce after a year. Xie Shiwei thought, Sounds great, and tearfully agreed.

After that, he enjoyed He Qin's good looks for free, tried to match him with the protagonist shou, built up his own career to keep his stepmother from stealing the family fortune, and flirted with handsome men while waiting for the divorce.

But later...

He Qin, wearing an open bathrobe, said, "Maybe we should put off the divorce for now."

Then he leaned close to Xie Shiwei's ear. "And maybe you should stop flirting with those men for now."

*

He Qin realized that Xie Shiwei hadn't lost his memory. He'd been replaced by someone else.

He'd fallen for Xie Shiwei, but Xie Shiwei kept counting down the days until their divorce. He only saw He Qin as a good friend, and even asked his opinion before going out to pick up men.

Consumed by jealousy, the usually aloof Mr. He had no choice but to take matters into his own hands, seducing Xie Shiwei with every trick he could. He pushed and pulled, turning the heat up until Xie Shiwei blushed and lost his composure. He thought victory was within reach.

But Xie Shiwei said, "We should get divorced after all."

One day, Xie Shiwei explained to his best friend why he absolutely had to get divorced.

Xie Shiwei sighed. "The thing is, He Qin... isn't very good in bed."

He Qin, who'd been eavesdropping, was furious. He gritted his teeth and sneered. "Who told you I wasn't good?"

That night, Xie Shiwei discovered just how badly he'd misunderstood.

Awkward.

It turned out that the scene he'd read about was from a joke fanfic! TT

[Reader's Guide]

1. A chaste, seductive, jealous CEO gong x a career-driven, irresistible beauty shou who loves good-looking men.

2. In a world where same-sex marriage is legal. 30% comedy, one-to-one romance, happy ending.

[Content Warnings]

1. Logic has gone out the window.

2. The ending follows the outline, but the wrap-up may be a little rushed.

3. The villains' storylines aren't handled very thoroughly.

Thanks for reading! This is a lighthearted, relaxing story. For my next one, I'd like to write a more emotionally intense, melodramatic romance: You're More Like Him with Glasses. The gong is the replacement character. Please add it to your collection!

1.

At the start of his junior year, Chen Yao deliberately seduced a pure-hearted underclassman from a village. After they started dating, he gave him a pair of glasses and always made him wear them in bed.

From friendship to romance, every one of Si Yan's firsts was with Chen Yao. Chen Yao paid for his education and taught him how to kiss. When they were caught up in passion, Chen Yao would blush and tell him he loved him. Si Yan cherished Chen Yao more than anything and gave him all his love in return, until he saw a video.

High school student Chen Yao was blushing as he kissed someone else, his eyelashes trembling with shyness.

That person looked ninety percent like Si Yan, with the familiar black-framed glasses perched on his nose.

When his deception was exposed, Chen Yao simply admitted everything and vanished without a trace.

2.

Two years later, Si Yan had become a celebrity and a rising power, someone who stood above the masses.

But after his family fell on hard times, Chen Yao had no choice but to sing for money in a bar.

On the day they met again, Si Yan saw Chen Yao leaning against a male patron as he served him drinks and flirted with him, then put a pair of glasses on the man's face.

The exact same pair as before!

Furious, Si Yan called out Chen Yao for shamelessly finding another replacement.

Chen Yao only paused for a moment, then pushed the glasses onto Si Yan's face and hooked an arm around his neck, drunk. "You look more like him with glasses. Could you sleep with me one more time?"

It was absurd, but they ended up in bed together again, more than once.

3.

Si Yan hated himself for feeling this instinctive desire for a liar. Full of hatred, he used money to buy Chen Yao's nights, roughly forcing the man beneath him to understand exactly who he was.

After several hazy days, Chen Yao took no money and vanished without a trace once again.

Only then did Si Yan learn about Chen Yao's dark past, and that his first love had long since died. He was beyond saving. No matter how much he hated Chen Yao, he still loved him.

Even though Chen Yao had once molded him into another person, even though every minute Chen Yao had spent with him might have been spent thinking of someone else.

Si Yan traveled a thousand miles to find Chen Yao, his eyes red.

"Yao Yao, can we start over?"

"It's okay if you can't forget him. I only want half a place in your heart."

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