You Scared Your Wife Away

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Ning Wanshu's personal information and photo were stolen and used to scam people in an online game. The scammer targeted wealthy, gullible players who spent a fortune on the game. When the scam was exposed, the culprit promptly deleted their account and disappeared.

Ning Wanshu knew nothing about it. After finishing his part-time job, he headed home, only to be cornered in an alley by a group of thugs.

One of the "thugs" was over six feet tall and dressed in a sharply tailored suit, looking refined and distinguished.

But this impeccably dressed man became Ning Wanshu's nightmare.

When the school year began, Ning Wanshu happily went to register at school.

But just as he reached the dormitory, he came face-to-face with the suited thug who had cornered him in the alley.

His vision went black. He felt like his life was over.

Xie Shihou had a thickheaded younger brother who got scammed while playing an online game. The culprit took his money and took advantage of him, too. Unable to bear the shock, his brother suffered a heart attack and ended up in the hospital.

Xie Shihou tracked down the scammer and went to corner him alone.

He'd imagined the culprit must be something special, but when they met, he found a delicate little weakling who crumpled to his knees at the slightest squeeze.

Later, the little scammer turned into Xie Shihou's junior at school.

He'd meant to teach him another lesson, but then he got a message from a private detective saying that the real culprit was someone else.

Xie Shihou: …

Damn it, he'd cornered the wrong person! His junior was innocent.

To win his junior's forgiveness, Xie Shihou took care of everything himself, practically treating him like his wife.

But his junior wasn't grateful. Instead, he grew even colder and more distant. "Everyone at school is spreading rumors that there's something inappropriate between us. You should keep your distance too, senior."

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For a long time afterward, Ning Wanshu always had a big human-shaped dog following him around, wagging its tail and doing everything it could to make him happy. It was almost too embarrassing to watch.

But he had no idea that Xie Shihou's love for him had long since sunk into the dirt.

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Preorder: A Secret Marriage to the Imperial Marshal Cost Me My Real Name

Blurb:

On the hundredth anniversary of the Interstellar Alliance, the old president got drunk and loudly cursed out Marshal Xie Xuexiao in front of billions of viewers watching the galaxy-wide livestream.

"Xie Xuexiao, I order you to get married this year! Otherwise, I'll pretend I never had a grandson!"

Netizens across the galaxy: "Ooh!"

Xie Xuexiao looked at the old man pretending to be drunk on camera. "..." You're quite the grandfather, aren't you?

Su Xia scoffed. "Who'd take anything someone says while drunk seriously?"

Later, Su Xia got drunk at a classmate's birthday party. When he woke up, he found himself in a stranger's home, with two marriage certificates beside the bed.

The name on the first certificate: Su Xia.

The name on the other: Xie Xuexiao.

Su Xia: "...?"

The greatest stroke of luck in Su Xia's life was marrying his idol. From then on, his name became classified information.

The problem was, Xie Xuexiao hadn't done it willingly.

Xie Xuexiao had always believed that marriage was a shackle that would only slow him down when killing space pirates.

So, from the list of candidates his grandfather gave him, he chose the useless Su Xia.

After the wedding, Xie Xuexiao and Su Xia agreed on three rules: leave a message for urgent matters, don't bring up trivial matters, and don't disturb each other otherwise.

Who knew Su Xia would take the agreement so seriously? At first, he contacted Xie Xuexiao every three days. Then he sent a message once a week. Half a year later, he vanished without a trace.

During a routine patrol, Xie Xuexiao led his troops to a remote planet that had just been ransacked by space pirates.

There, he saw Su Xia standing in front of an old-fashioned camera, covered in injuries but showing no sign of distress. "Viewers, I'm currently on Planet 9033. At around four this morning, the notorious Red Scorpion space pirate gang withdrew from this planet..."

It was a side of Su Xia that Xie Xuexiao had never seen before.

Though frail, he stood tall and proud.

Message: Keep trying to get over the hurdles in your life, and eventually you'll make it!