A Doting Wife, but He's the Top

This story contains a lot of pretentious artsy descriptions. The artsy stuff outweighs the goofy stuff, so enter at your own risk! Zhu W que is twenty-six, unmarried, and a pretentious artsy guy with a whole stack of buffs: bass, rock, fitness, photography, writing, poetry, movies, and gay men. His dark circles are blacker than coal dust, his hair is longer than his life is worth, and he lives like a demon that comes out only at night. Broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, he stands six foot two. A rather unconventional Da Bing. As gloomy as he is, his family is pressuring him to get married. Zhu W que: All right, just wait. I'll give you something huge. Step one in blowing up the whole world: straighten my hair, quit smoking and drinking, and become the clean, delicate wife of the modern age. Step two: learn all eight major Chinese cuisines, masterfully wield delivery apps, and become the virtuous wife of the modern age. Step three: call him “darling hubby,” eat from a baby bowl, and become the frail, delicate wife of the modern age. Go on, keep nagging me. You'll stop once your precious boy turns into the gender-swapped heroine of a “wife-dao” story, waving around a Roman Emperor and going berserk everywhere. Bai Yusi is twenty-eight, graduated from a C9 university, works out consistently, never swears, and has no bad habits. A chemistry teacher at a regular high school, he's warm and courteous with people, always measured and never oversteps. He lives like the ideal candidate in the matchmaking scene, but he's gay. As proper as he is, his family is pressuring him to get married. His matchmaking date is gloomy and taciturn. When he rolls his eyes upward, a mole on his brow ridge comes into view. His lashes are straight and thick, his eye sockets deep, his hands long and strong, and the veins on them clearly defined. His hair reaches his waist, and he has a slim waist and long legs. This is a matchmaking date? He's obviously a male ghost here to steal his soul. On the first day they live together, a torrential downpour begins. The ghost calls Bai Yusi: “Hubby, where are you? It's pouring, and I'm so scared. There's no one else at home. Where did you go, hubby?” Bai Yusi stands outside the front door, silently unlocking it. The room is dark and empty. On the second day they live together, Bai Yusi finally gets a day off. The ghost calls him: “Hubby, I made you dinner. It's in the fridge. Make sure you eat on time, okay, hubby? Love you, hubby.” Bai Yusi opens the fridge and tastes the eggplant. It tastes exactly like the version at the restaurant he often goes to. On the forty-seventh day of living together, after they've had sex, Bai Yusi thinks he wants to break up. The ghost acts all pitiful and clingy: “Hubby, please don't break up with me. I won't call anyone else hubby when we're out anymore. Can you forgive me?” Bai Yusi... Bai Yusi shamefully agrees. Male ghosts are trouble. It has to be the male ghost's fault... ‖Content warning: Main character is the pursuer. Zhu W que is unwell, resists intimate relationships, and is in a very beautiful state of mind. ‖Content warning: Bai Yusi is hopelessly lovesick. He seems proper on the surface, but behind the scenes he fantasizes about Zhu W que so much he's going crazy. He can't take a step once he lays eyes on him. ‖Content warning: Bai Yusi pursues Zhu W que, and they fall for each other at lightning speed. No groveling arc! ‖Content warning: This really makes no sense! If you ask me about a character's motivation, I'll answer to the extent of “peanut oil number 95 mixed with concrete number 24”! ‖Content warning: The story really does have a lot of detailed, pretentious artsy descriptions (looks away). Please don't relate this to real life, thanks! Please don't! Relate it! To real life! Thanks! Again! Universal safety notice: In this story, the term “delicate wife” is derogatory! Derogatory! Derogatory! It refers to the party who willingly takes the lower position in an unequal relationship between men and women or in any other relationship! The author does not endorse this derogatory “delicate wife” dynamic or unequal relationships between men and women or otherwise! Neither the upper nor lower position is acceptable! Equal relationships! Equal relationships! Equal relationships! Um, I'm putting up a new story for pre-publication bookmarking. I hope anyone who likes the sound of it will bookmark and support it. Once I finish the “delicate wife” story, I should start this one (fidgets with fingers). ****Visit my author page: Our Empire Is Truly Teeming with Talent**** 7. [Being a Duck for the Empire: You Can Do It, Duck!] (Writing furiously) A fake elite agent and fake playboy 1, with his Federation tycoon 0 Yue Dai is handsome, fit, and an army soldier with a verifiable service record. After being sidelined by an injury, he gets transferred to the intelligence bureau. On his first day as a licensed agent, the bureau's founder seeks him out and earnestly tells him he needs to be a duck for the Empire: use his face and figure to seduce the famous Federation tycoon who holds sway in both politics and business. Yue Dai: ? The founder still isn't reassured. He secretly slips him a huge bucket of high-tech aphrodisiacs, then sneaks him a book called The Eighteen Styles of Male-Male Sex. The tycoon's tastes are unusual and his demands are exacting, so he must learn to endure. Yue Dai: ?? 1. [The Unloved One Is the Homewrecker] (Complete) A man who makes himself his own mistress 1, and his inexplicably cheating 0 Huo Qing reclines halfway on the couch, lazily glancing at the man before him. His words are merciless. “I openly admit to being the other man just to bring a little excitement to my stagnant life.” “Only when the original partner and his friends pin me to the ground and beat me can I clearly feel that I'm alive.” “What do you mean, knowingly becoming the other man? What a joke. Only the unloved one is the homewrecker.” Well reasoned and convincing... my ass. Song Jue silently looks at his long-missing boyfriend. What kind of behavior is this? Is he making himself his own mistress? 2. [In Our Line of Work, Falling for a Client Is the Biggest Taboo] (Complete) A streetwalking Imperial major general 1 and his upright SWAT officer 0 At night, Xu Huan stands by the roadside wrapped in a cheap fur coat, sizing up the man in front of him with a sharp look. Suddenly, his eyes redden. “Clients insulted and abused me, the others ostracized me, and the madam cursed me out. I've shed so many tears, but never told anyone around me. Yet sometimes, alone at night, I suddenly remember how you held me when I was sixteen and promised to take me away.” “All these years, I've used the Roman Emperor to beat back invaders trying to take my turf, randomly texted clients' wives to break up their families, and pretended to be a newly widowed husband with no money for a coffin, grabbing men's sleeves and crying.” “It's a shame, but in our line of work, falling for a client is the biggest taboo.” A gambling dad, an alcoholic mom, a brother in debt, a broken him, and a family doomed to sorrow forever... my ass. Zhao Jiangxing silently looks at his boyfriend, whose brain has clearly gone bad, and sighs in frustration. What kind of behavior is this? He's truly never seen anything like it. 3. [The College Entrance Exam + Infinite-Flow: Is This Food? Why Are You Serving It?] (Complete) A 1 who gets dragged into a dungeon right after the college entrance exam, and his professional high school senior 0 Celeste: Why is your name Ning Shengjuan? Ning Shengjuan: It means studying until I'm dead. Why is your name Celeste? Celeste: Heh, nice. I'm especially good at studying. Ning Shengjuan: ...Your grandpa. 4. [Hey, Kid, You Got Enough Spending Money? If You Do, Send Your Uncle Some. I'm Broke.] (Complete) A laid-back middle-aged 1 and his possessive, gloomy male ghost 0 After an accident, Qu Li loses his memory. The bad news: He's far from home and doesn't have a single cent. The good news: Someone likes his face and figure and takes him home. As the days go by, Qu Li and the nice little ghost grow closer and closer. But as the little ghost grows up, certain things have to be brought out into the open. Like whether they're friends with benefits or a couple, and what happened in Qu Li's past. 5. [A Political Marriage Is Practically a Diplomatic Incident] A bitter 1 from a strange little country called Gray, and his emperor 0 6. [The Empire's College of History and Literature Is Full of Remarkable People] A prankster extraordinaire 1 and his chaotic-good junior 0 20241122: I shortened the blurb. The seven stories above are mainly set in the Empire. The dozens of others will be released later in different series. Love you all~ 20241206: Shortened the blurb again. I tried writing a few of these, but couldn't get them finished (scratches head sheepishly). After I finish this story, I'll revise A Guide to Failing at Taking It Easy in Another World, then write Reincarnated in Another World with a Can System. Here's the can story's blurb~ Chai Yu was reincarnated. Bad news: He spent his whole life wanting to die, only to end up in another world in the middle of a chaotic era. Twice the bad news: He awakened a System, but it was an Infinite Can System. Looking at the plain, ordinary System, Chai Yu wants to die. The System is a cold program, so of course its words are cold: “Dear user, we offer a variety of canned foods, including chicken, rabbit, pigeon, wolf, dragon, and slime...” Chai Yu cuts off the System's icy announcement. What does he care about some System or other? The cans are only for animals anyway. Never mind that, staying alive comes first. Three years later, the other world finally settles down, and the title of Can God of North Mountain grows ever more famous. Looking at the poor animals in his yard, all crying for food, Chai Yu sighs and pulls a few tons of cans out of the System's inventory. The animals and monsters of who-knows-what species rejoice, offering their powers and names to Chai Yu so he can ascend to godhood in one fell swoop. Quiet, peaceful, and ridiculously well-fed days pass like flowing water. Nothing happens. Until one day, a divine beast, badly injured, happens to pass by North Mountain. Bonus scene Chai Yu: There are no more cans. Little Divine Beast: *stares* Chai Yu: I'm tired tonight. Little Divine Beast: *stares* Chai Yu: No snacks left, either. Little Divine Beast: *stares* Chai Yu: If you've got nothing better to do, go chop some firewood in the storage shed. Little Divine Beast: *detected keyword: firewood* Little Divine Beast: Awoo! Achievement unlocked: OO with a Little Divine Beast ‖Main character is the pursuer, main character is the pursuer, main character is the pursuer. Focused on a growing-up romance between a couple. People who are possessive of one side or the other, don't read. ‖The pursuer is universally adored by people and beasts alike. ‖Inspired by a dream I had on the afternoon of 20241122. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Thesis: Live well