My Husband Has a Way with Words

[Pure-Hearted Husband's Secret Love Comes True x Alluring Beauty, Married First and Falling in Love Later]

The Yuan and Li families were well matched in status, and joined their families through marriage.

On their wedding night, one remark from Yuan Che angered Li Youheng, and from then on, the couple grew estranged.

After the wedding, Li Youheng resolved to treat him with icy courtesy. Every time he tried to win her over, she met him with a cold stare.

But as time passed, she gradually discovered that her detestable husband had another side to him.

It turned out that a little teasing was enough to make him blush, and even those cool, detached eyes could brim with flustered desire.

She loved rumpling his neatly buttoned clothes and maliciously leaving marks on the back of his neck. Whenever she saw the reserved, aloof man looking embarrassed and annoyed, she found the old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud rather amusing.

Yuan Che had lived his whole life by the rules. His greatest regret was behaving so improperly on their wedding night.

Knowing Li Youheng despised him, he could only approach her carefully after they married.

Li Youheng deliberately went against him and loved to tease him. The refined, proper man would blush with anger and still be unable to say a word.

In bed, she would tilt up his chin and make him look at her. Gazing into those radiant eyes, he found himself willing to accept anything.

The feelings he had long hidden in his heart were so easily stirred that he forgot all about restraint and self-control.

He thought he had finally gotten his wish and that he and Li Youheng had at last entrusted their true feelings to each other. Then, one day, he unexpectedly overheard Li Youheng describing him to a friend as "a boring old stick-in-the-mud."

[Bonus Scene]

One day, Li Youheng discovered that her usually proper husband was reading an improper romance!

It was only when Yuan Che came to her, the tips of his ears red, and said, "I've learned a few new things. I think you'll find them interesting," that she realized he had heard her joke that day.

Watching Yuan Che try to hide his embarrassment, looking so pitiful, she felt not the slightest bit guilty. "Husband, can we play anything we like?"

Hearing her whisper in his ear, Yuan Che's pupils trembled. "That's not proper!"

Li Youheng: "Oh, then never mind."

As she turned to leave, he caught her sleeve again...

Advance Preview: A Lament for the Wind and Moon

At a banquet, Meng Shuyu and Xue Shen were both drugged. They woke up together the next morning, their innocence gone.

As for who had drugged them, every suspicion pointed to Meng Shuyu. Born into humble circumstances, everyone believed she had used underhanded means to marry into this wealthy and powerful family.

After entering the household, Meng Shuyu ignored the household affairs and refused to serve her parents-in-law, turning the home into utter chaos.

Xue Shen warned her, "This marriage didn't come easily. If I were you, I'd make a real effort to keep it together."

She shot back, "I had no idea you had it in you to play the bullied little wife."

The entire Xue family looked down on her. Did he expect her to greet them with a smile?

The two of them could never exchange more than a few words without arguing. Even in bed, neither would give an inch.

If they hated each other, then neither of them would let the other off easy.

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Xue Shen was born into a distinguished family and had enjoyed a smooth life, only to stumble when it came to marriage.

He was convinced Meng Shuyu had schemed against him. To save face, he had no choice but to marry her.

He despised her for her dishonesty, but had no intention of marrying anyone else. She was willful and unruly, and he could not be bothered to pay her much attention. Fortunately, she knew her place and did not cling to him.

If they had a child or two in the future, he and Meng Shuyu could make do with life together.

Until one day, he saw Meng Shuyu chatting and laughing with someone. Among the glowing blossoms, her smile was as gentle as a spring breeze passing over a quiet stream. It was a smile he had never seen before.

But her gaze did not linger on him for even a moment. It rested only on the newly appointed top scorer in the palace exams.

He heard the man call her "Lingling," a childhood nickname even he had never known.

He turned those two syllables over and over in his mind, his face cold as ice.

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