Think Twice Before Marrying Zhou Lang

[Upcoming Novel: The Substitute Bride] A story about a young couple in love after marriage, from a middle-class family in an ancient small town.

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[Blurb]

--From the heroine's perspective--

Sun Haoying is the second daughter of the Sun family, a medical family with a century-old reputation in town. At sixteen, she has bright eyes and pearly teeth, and is as radiant as spring flowers. She is the top choice for unmarried young gentlemen in town looking for a wife.

After seeing her elder sister face one misfortune after another in marriage, Sun Haoying isn't eager to marry.

She has studied medicine since childhood and seen how difficult it is for women to get medical care. She is determined to open a clinic dedicated to treating women.

Once her clinic opens, the Sun family, once a favorite destination for matchmakers, suddenly has no visitors. The prominent families in town look down on Sun Haoying for showing her face in public every day and behaving improperly. They say she is bound to die alone at home.

Who would have thought that just a few months later, the Sun family wouldn't marry their youngest daughter off to a lesser family at all? Instead, they would form a marital alliance with the Zhou family, a prestigious clan in the county.

Well, the Zhou family's eldest son dotes on the second daughter of the Sun family. No matter the weather, he escorts his wife to and from her clinic every day. What's more, this man is seven feet tall and powerfully built, yet he's naturally domestic, a master at managing the household, maintaining the family business, and raising children!

Before long, countless young wives and ladies in the county and town find themselves more dissatisfied with their own husbands the more they see of him. And their looks toward Sun Haoying change from mockery and scorn to boundless envy.

To Sun Haoying, marriage had once been a shackle that would bind her.

She is fortunate to win Zhou's favor. He is kind and easygoing. Sun Haoying chooses her husband carefully, and after their marriage, they are blissfully in love, with him taking care of her in every possible way.

She does not let her husband's support go to waste. Five years after their marriage, she completes The Sun Midwife's Record of Women's Ailments, a book she compiled herself. It focuses on gynecological conditions such as preventing miscarriages, childbirth, sores and swellings, fractures, and acupuncture. Women of the time admire and praise her, giving her the title "Immortal Sun."

[From the hero's perspective]

The first half of Zhou Yan's life was lonely and isolated.

His family disliked him, and his mother ultimately chose to sacrifice him in her schemes against his half-brother. Zhou Yan survived a battlefield strewn with corpses, only to develop a terrifying affliction that everyone shunned.

He had stopped hoping for anything, but Heaven did not forsake him, and he met the second daughter of the Sun family.

The closer he gets to her, the more deeply he falls in love. He willingly kneels at the hem of her embroidered skirt, begging for her favor and hoping they can stay together forever.

She has great ambitions of her own. Zhou Yan respects and loves her, and is willing to be a doting husband who keeps house and helps her grow into a towering tree.

"A story about success in both career and love."

"A married couple who help each other flourish."

"Life is about more than romance. It's also about firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea."

"Marriage has more than one definition. A husband who manages the home while his wife works outside can be happy, too."

Content Notes:

* An ancient folk healer and a discharged soldier who works as an accountant. The hero has mild PTSD.

* I'll finish The Clever Housewife Runs the Household first, then start updating this one.

* Both leads are sexually inexperienced, but the heroine considers several options early on. Please don't read if that bothers you.

* A lighthearted, sweet story. Just enjoy it and don't worry about anything else. If it's not for you, please leave quietly and move on.

Next upcoming novel: The Substitute Bride

Message: Happiness above all.