After My Husband's Identity Was Revealed

[Gorgeous Beauty x Sweet on the Outside, Dark on the Inside]

Chu Lingxi is the least favored legitimate daughter of the Marquis's household. The First Madam plans to send her to marry the sickly heir next door, hoping the wedding will bring him good fortune.

Chu Lingxi had planned to hold her nose and accept her fate, until she accidentally fell into the water on the Lantern Festival and was rescued by a refined young gentleman.

He was exceptionally handsome and elegant, saving her in her hour of need. He held her by the waist and swept across the lake as lightly as drifting clouds.

Every smile and frown of his found its way into her heart.

Whenever Chu Lingxi remembered the young gentleman's agile figure leaping across rooftops, then thought of the sickly husband she was about to marry, who was said to have less than a year to live, her vision went dark and she felt utterly hopeless.

She began to fight back, trying every means she could to ruin the marriage.

Unfortunately, she couldn't escape her fate and ended up marrying him.

On their wedding night, Chu Lingxi sat on the bridal bed, silently shedding tears, convinced her life was over.

A weighing rod lifted her red veil, revealing the groom's exquisitely handsome face.

Chu Lingxi hiccupped mid-sob and stopped crying.

Wasn't this groom the very gentleman who had rescued her on the Lantern Festival?

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Lu Yuzhou had pretended to be sick for twenty years. He nearly blew his cover on the Lantern Festival.

The young woman was truly beautiful, looking especially delicate and helpless amid the crowd, more brilliant than the fireworks in the night sky.

Among all those people, Lu Yuzhou felt a rare pang of compassion for her.

So he casually rescued her from the water, saving her from her urgent predicament. The young woman was deeply grateful and asked his name. Lu Yuzhou almost gave his real name, but paused, letting it turn once on his tongue.

"Mu Ziqin."

The next day, news came that his friend Mu Ziqin was being pursued by a noblewoman from the Marquis's household.

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Lu Yuzhou couldn't stop thinking about the young woman from that day. Then he suddenly remembered that his family had arranged a marriage for him. He casually asked, "Who am I marrying?"

His servant looked disdainful. "The young lady from the Marquis's household who's been pestering the young prince."

"..."

It seemed this marriage had to happen right away!

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The servant noticed that his master had recently stopped practicing with weapons and started reading instead. And they were mostly storybooks, poetry, and the like.

Even more astonishingly, one day he found his master digging out a brightly colored comic book from the bottom of the bookshelf, reading it with rapt attention.

On the wedding night, the servant had a miserable time, hauling several buckets of water in the middle of the night.

The next day, the First Madam sat upright in the main hall, smiling without warmth. "Marriage is about mutual understanding. The heir is in poor health, so you'll have to be patient with him in that regard."

Lu Yuzhou coughed and sighed. "Mother is right. It's only my poor health that has made Lingxi suffer."

Chu Lingxi instinctively rubbed her aching lower back. Her calves were still trembling faintly, but she forced a smile and said nothing.

Blurb dated April 20, 2023

Theme: Fate is written in the stars