My Husband Is Old-Fashioned, but Handsome as Can Be

[A Repressed Old-Fashioned Gentleman vs. A Looks-Obsessed, Easygoing, Delicate Darling]

Yu Xi was born into wealth and had a fiancé who would lift her skirts and wipe her shoes for her. Unless something unexpected happened, she was sure to spend her whole life wrapped in sweetness.

But the unexpected came all at once.

When Yu Xi saw her fiancé taking his mistress out for a romantic stroll, she fainted from anger.

After waking up, Yu Xi wept bitterly. She had become the laughingstock of her entire circle of friends, for starters. And though her fiancé was a scoundrel, he was devastatingly handsome. She was afraid she would never find another fiancé so good-looking.

Just as Yu Xi was utterly despondent and even considering spending the rest of her life in a convent, Lu Zhi appeared before her, coming to apologize on his younger brother’s behalf.

Looking at the man’s outrageously handsome face, Yu Xi’s hopes instantly flared back to life.

Her fiancé’s elder brother was this stunning!

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Before he was thirty, Lu Zhi had risen to the Grand Secretariat, serving as a trusted minister to the emperor and head of the officials. Renowned as the jade-faced grand secretary, he was someone countless people could only admire from afar.

He had often seen his younger brother, Lu Ping, fawn over Yu Xi and indulge her in every way. He had also seen Yu Xi smack her brother over the head with storybooks more than once.

Unwilling to let such a spoiled, willful woman damage his family’s good name, Lu Zhi had repeatedly urged his younger brother in private to choose a more suitable wife.

Until, later, his younger brother betrayed Yu Xi, and the marriage between the Lu and Yu families fell to him instead.

On their wedding night, looking at Yu Xi’s lovely, bashful face, Lu Zhi stated sternly that he was busy with his official duties and had never wanted to marry. He only hoped that he and Yu Xi could treat each other with respect and keep out of each other’s way…

He hadn’t even finished speaking when Yu Xi struck a pretty pose and beckoned to him with a finger. “What are you rambling on about? Hurry up and consummate the marriage.”

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A year into their marriage, Lu Zhi noticed that Yu Xi was gradually growing less enthusiastic toward him.

He didn’t mind. After all, apart from nighttime pleasures, he had given Yu Xi nothing. If she was tired of him, he would simply let her go.

That evening, after finishing work, Lu Zhi went to bring Yu Xi home, intending to have a proper talk with her about getting a divorce.

Then he heard Yu Xi slap the table inside and cry, “I really can’t get through to you people. My husband is so handsome, I’d put up with the same position for a whole year! I really would!”

Lu Zhi: …

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After returning home, Lu Zhi picked up one of Yu Xi’s treasured storybooks for the first time: My Chaste Tutor, The Handsome Monk in the Deep Mountains, The Lecherous Magistrate Who Interrogates Me at Midnight…

The more he read, the darker Lu Zhi’s gaze grew.

Before long, Yu Xi came home. She hadn’t even stepped inside when she saw her old-fashioned husband waiting for her with a ruler in hand. “Why are you so late?”

Yu Xi: …Wait, something’s not right!

That night, for the first time in her life, Yu Xi was a model student. All she could say about it was: Hehe…

Reading guide:

1. A lighthearted, sweet story about life after marriage. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, and the story is complete.

2. Click to enjoy the downfall of a stiff, old-fashioned male lead. Please note: the male lead is traditional and conservative. If you read this, please don’t leave a bad review insulting the author or the leads.

3. Nine-year age gap: 17 and 26. The ex-fiancé’s mistress wasn’t encouraged by the male lead. He’s an old-fashioned gentleman who would never do something like that.

4. There’s a face-slapping plotline involving the former fiancé and more, but the blurb was already too long to include it all!

5. The heroine simply likes how handsome the male lead is. The male lead is a top-tier chaste type and a devoted caretaker. (Drools.)

6. Paragraph comments are open. Everyone’s welcome to leave comments! This story is an attempt to adjust my writing style, so it may differ quite a bit from my work from a few years ago. It’s lighter and more straightforward, so just enjoy it for fun.

My next book, My Sister, You’re So Bad, is now open for pre-orders. See my author page.

[A Bad Man and His Even Worse Sister]

Not long after Bai Zhuzhu got married, she was sent back to her family home for beating her husband. She threw herself into the arms of her stepbrother and sobbed, “I only gave him a light slap, and he couldn’t take it! I’m divorcing him!”

As Bai Chen sent someone to draft the divorce papers, he comforted her. “Don’t cry, Zhuzhu. I’ll find you ten men. You can beat them every day if you like.”

Curled up against her stepbrother’s broad chest, Bai Zhuzhu thought pitifully that her stepbrother was the only good man in the world.

Unfortunately, none of the ten men Bai Chen found could satisfy Bai Zhuzhu. One was too ugly, she complained, and another had a chest that was too small.

Bai Chen listened to her complaints and memorized every word, then turned around and told people to find her even better men.

After all her fussing, even Bai Chen’s fiancée couldn’t stand it anymore. She said Bai Zhuzhu was spoiled and unreasonable and needed to be taught a lesson.

That night, Bai Zhuzhu clung to Bai Chen with tears in her eyes. “Brother, she insulted me. I want to sleep with you and make her furious.”

Was she serious? The entire Bai family belonged to Bai Zhuzhu. Whether Bai Chen worked like an ox, a horse, or a donkey for her was entirely up to Bai Zhuzhu!

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Bai Chen was the Bai family’s stepson, a business prodigy. In just a few short years, he had raised the Bai family to the top of Yangzhou’s fortunes.

Even after Bai Zhuzhu’s parents passed away, he continued to spoil their only daughter without restraint. He would put on her shoes and wash her face, doing whatever she asked.

People laughed that the Bai family had raised him like a dog, but only Bai Chen knew what he wanted: to raise Bai Zhuzhu high, then let her fall, so he could take over everything the Bai family owned.

As Bai Zhuzhu grew more and more wicked, and the number of people who resented her increased, Bai Chen smiled without a word, watching it all with cold eyes.

Even when Bai Zhuzhu complained that she was dissatisfied with the men, Bai Chen sneered inwardly while picking out all kinds of men for her, telling her that if she wanted something, she had to get it by any means necessary.

It wasn’t until Bai Zhuzhu’s innocent, guileless yet possessive gaze fell on him that Bai Chen realized the Bai Zhuzhu he had raised might have turned out a little too wicked.

Theme: Be kind to yourself and love life. You are the protagonist of your own story.