After the Frail Green Tea Girl Marries Up to a Feudal Patriarch

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Yu Lian was a sickly man whose heart was set on wealth and status. He would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.

After plotting to have the Regent Prince's beloved die in a faraway land, he finally got his wish and married into the prince's household.

But after the wedding, the heir to the title despised him in every way. He even found sharing a room with him disgusting.

Yu Lian didn't care. All he wanted was to live in comfort, spend his days soaking in precious medicinal herbs, and cling to life for as long as he could.

Until the beloved, who should have been nothing but bones by then, returned alive and tearfully accused him of murder in front of everyone.

He had taken a life for the sake of his own wealth and glory.

Of course, Yu Lian denied it. Even with death staring him in the face, he argued back and gave the heir a thorough tongue-lashing, earning himself a sneer of "You're impossible" and a cup of poison. He died on the spot.

After being reborn, he heard the heir's icy words again: "Affected, vulgar, and wanton." This time, Yu Lian didn't linger. He turned around and headed straight for the Regent Prince's residence.

He had been wrong in his previous life. His ambition had simply been too small.

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Xiao Qi was ruthless and unpredictable. Rumor had it he was exceptionally cruel, and that any beauty who dared approach him ended up dead or maimed.

Yu Lian gave up the handsome heir and set his sights on Xiao Qi, the cold-faced King of Hell.

Everyone took gleeful pleasure in the sordid tale of a daughter-in-law and her father-in-law, clamoring to see Yu Lian make a fool of himself and betting on when Xiao Qi would gouge out his eyes and throw him out.

The heir sneered from his lofty perch and told him he was asking for trouble.

He waited for Yu Lian to be thrown out by Xiao Qi, then come crawling back to beg him.

He waited and waited, but things started to take a strange turn.

Watching his adoptive father keep an ever closer eye on Yu Lian, the heir finally lost patience on the way to a palace banquet and barged into the bedroom where his "mother" was temporarily recuperating.

"If you still know enough to come beg me, I might consider taking you as a concubine..."

Before he could finish, his body froze in place.

Through the veils of red silk, Yu Lian glanced toward the door as if pleading for help.

And the Regent Prince, whose power held sway over the entire court, was crouched beside him in an almost reverent pose, his voice as gentle as if he were soothing a child:

"Be good, all right, Lianlian?"

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At first, Yu Lian used his frail health as an excuse to go through the motions when it came to sex.

Later, he got a taste for it. Whenever he saw Xiao Qi, he would turn as soft and yielding as a perfectly ripe peach...

An old-school, domineering daddy with a huge appetite x a sickly beauty with a sweet, calculating streak

[Reading Guide]

1. They marry first and fall in love later. At first, the attraction is purely physical.

2. Everyone is completely chaste. No unsolicited writing advice, please.

3. Age gap, size difference, and skin tone difference.

Theme: Good health