After the Divorce, I Married My Ex-Husband's Younger Uncle

[Synopsis One]

With only a yellowed old marriage contract to rely on, Lin Yun-Chu, with nowhere else to turn, went to the Huo family and asked them to honor their agreement.

For the sake of their reputation and pride, the Huo family had no choice but to let their eldest son, Huo Ziyu, marry him.

His husband disliked him and never gave him a kind look, treating him as someone who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.

His mother-in-law detested him. He had to pay his respects morning and evening without fail, and the strict rules were endless.

When the younger members of the family bullied him, the Huo family looked on coldly and did nothing. At his most humiliating moments, only one person ever stepped forward to help him, though even that person barely spoke to him.

He could endure all of it.

He had forced this marriage, and he had wronged the Huo family. So when he learned that Huo Ziyu had already given his heart to someone else, he instinctively felt relieved.

After five years of marriage, Huo Ziyu detested him. They hardly ever shared a table, let alone a bed.

That was fine, too.

Later, his father passed away, and no one from the Huo family came to pay their respects.

When he returned to the Huo family again, he handed Huo Ziyu the money he had saved over the years. His expression was cool and distant.

“Neither of us owes the other anything. Let’s divorce.”

He walked out of the Huo family’s gates with the divorce papers in hand. In less than half a day, he had become the laughingstock of the entire capital.

[Synopsis Two]

A month later, a noodle shop opened in the north end of the city, in Huailiu Alley.

They said the noodles weren’t exactly outstanding, but the Duke seemed to like them very much.

For three months straight, he never missed a day, rain or shine.

In the end, Lin Yun-Chu was the first to lose patience.

He stopped the tall, handsome man before him. A faint confusion lingered in his calm eyes. “Uncle... no, Your Grace, what exactly are you trying to do?”

The man before him wore mourning clothes, yet his elegance remained undiminished. His wrist was slender and pale, dusted with flour.

Huo Qing looked at the hands that had grown rough from rolling noodles day after day. His dark eyes settled on them.

“I want to marry you.”

He took an imperial edict from his sleeve, took Lin Yun-Chu’s hand, and solemnly placed it in his palm.

This is a story about a great beauty who ends up far from home, and a scheming big bad wolf who has been plotting for ages to carry him back home.

A gentle, devoted, and strategically minded top x a clever, patient, clearheaded bottom

Secret crush, both virgins, the top has been in love with the bottom and is eight years older.

[Synopsis written on October 12, 2023]

Theme: Stay true to your original aspirations.