The Sharp-Tongued Prefect and His Mute Wife

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[Gentle and sweet mute heroine x sharp-tongued, shameless governor | Faux forced-marriage romance]

In the city of Gusu lived a young woman named Yan Zhi. After an accident, she lost all her memories.

Yan Zhi was gentle and kind by nature. Yet even such a tender woman would eventually encounter the fated bane of her existence, Xie Jiuxiao, Governor of Wu Commandery.

He was viciously sharp-tongued, vindictive, and shameless.

When they first met, he saved her, and she bowed to thank him.

Unexpectedly, Xie Jiuxiao sat astride his tall horse, looking down at her with casual arrogance. "If you want to thank me, show some sincerity. My household needs a girl to tend the stove."

She forced a smile and agreed.

After entering his household, she made tea for him. He sneered, "The tea is good. Your skill, on the other hand, is like tossing a couple of leaves into a bucket of slops."

She learned to play the qin, and he covered his ears. "The donkey next door sounds three times more pleasant."

Even the pastries she made drew criticism from him: "Such a rare delicacy. I am simply unworthy of eating it."

The little mute girl flew into a rage and flipped the table. She was done with this!

Xie Jiuxiao surveyed the mess on the floor, perfectly calm. "You broke a jar of my fine wine and two glass cups. Add the food and drink, and you owe me sixty taels. Pay up."

The mute girl: "..."

Though wealth could not corrupt her and force could not bend her, the mute girl still had too little backbone to resist his bullying.

After that, he only got worse, finding fault with everything.

Even when he bathed and changed clothes, she had to serve him herself. Yan Zhi was about to go blind from all the embarrassment.

Xie Jiuxiao was a "corrupt official" who picked fights with heaven and earth, and managed to get himself demoted to Governor of Wu Commandery all by himself.

Just when things couldn't get worse, on his very first day in office, someone sent him an urgent letter from eight hundred li away. It contained eight large, unmistakable characters:

Governor Xie, your wife has run away!

Xie Jiuxiao scoffed and tossed the letter aside. "I hold a high position and have power and influence. She has no reason to run away."

His attendant, Zhang Hui, looked impressed. "As expected of my lord. Such confidence!"

Two months later, his master suddenly brought home a little mute girl with amnesia. They ate together by day and shared a bed at night, and he doted on her quite a bit.

Zhang Hui thought to himself: As expected of my lord. Truly a father to the people, loving them like his own children!

Until one day, Zhang Hui saw Xie Jiuxiao holding the little mute girl and softly coaxing her: "Wife, my chest aches a little. Would you kiss me?"

Zhang Hui was left reeling.

As expected of my lord. When it comes to shamelessness, he's in a class of his own!

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"His Bewitching Scent"

[Enchanting perfumer x fragrance-connoisseur heir | Two strong leads, mutually pursuing | Marriage before love]

On their wedding night, Shun Hua reclined against the bridal bed and looked at the dignified, jade-faced young man before her, pure as frost and snow. She deliberately hooked a finger around his jade belt, her beautiful eyes sparkling with flirtation. "My lord, it's time for bed."

The young man remained silent, allowing her to seduce him.

That night, a man who was the "ideal moonlight" in the hearts of countless women shed his cold exterior. His eyes clouded with intoxication, and he fell beneath her skirt.

No one knew how much passion incense had been added to the fragrance that night.

Que Lin was a "block of stone" in the eyes of the world, a man who understood nothing of human affection.

He cared nothing for high office or great wealth, devoting himself wholeheartedly to the art of fragrance. No matter how many noble young ladies lowered themselves or schemed to win him over, none could find a way.

That is, until he met her.

A young lady whose "scandals" were known throughout the city and whose romantic history could fill six pages, with room to spare.

At their first meeting, she was certainly beautiful, but far too flamboyant and passionate. Vulgar!

At their second meeting, he noticed the scent on her was most unusual. It contained a fragrance he couldn't identify.

At their third meeting, she took the initiative and said she wanted to propose to him.

He agreed, on the condition that the Yuan family's ancestral fragrance manual be included in her dowry.

Everyone called it a ridiculous match.

A wanton woman gave in for his looks, while a cold-hearted man bowed to her fragrance.

She gladly accepted her six-page romantic history at a perfume banquet, while he coldly faced the noblewomen filling the city at his Fragrance Pavilion.

Two years later, Shun Hua slapped a divorce letter down on the agarwood table:

"Heir, the passion incense has burned out. It's time to end this farce."

Up in the Jade Tower, he watched her flirt with another man, and for the first time in his life, he tasted something like jealousy.

He knocked her unconscious and locked her in the tower. Then he caught the fingertips she tried to pull away, his eyes roiling with dark currents. "A farce? My lady, have you forgotten that the passion incense in the nuptial wine we drank two years ago is still burning in my blood and bones?"

Theme: Those destined for each other will never truly lose their way, no matter how far apart they are.