The Yu Family's Live-In Son-in-Law

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[Bold, straightforward pursuer with a heart of gold x beautiful, sensitive, approval-seeking pursued]

The Yu family is a renowned merchant clan in Jiaocheng. Yu Zhoumian is the family's legitimate son, and should have been showered with affection. But when he was three, his birth mother passed away, and everything changed.

The childhood friend whose education the family had paid for passed the imperial exam, then was stolen away by his younger sister.

His stepmother took the shops his mother had left him.

And even his marriage was hastily arranged through a ball-throwing contest, all because his sister shouldn't be inconvenienced.

Watching the travel-worn man catch the embroidered ball below, Yu Zhoumian thought: Maybe this is just how his life will be.

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In the spring of the fifty-fourth year of the Yuli reign, the army won a great victory at the border. Lin Jin should have returned to court to receive his reward, but tired of the twists and turns of officialdom, he resigned and headed for the countryside. When he passed through Jiaocheng, the streets were bustling. Lin Jin had no intention of joining the festivities and hurried along, only to be struck by a concealed weapon.

Lin Jin reached out and caught it. When he brought it before his eyes, a flash of red caught his attention.

Was this... an embroidered ball thrown to find a husband?

After getting married, Lin Jin and Yu Zhoumian began in the village and gradually expanded their business together.

They would reclaim everything they'd lost, one thing at a time.

But how did a marriage that was supposed to be fake turn into a real marriage?

Notes: 1. Marriage first, love later. The pursuer dotes on the pursued. A sweet romance! 2. The pursued has someone he likes at the beginning. 3. Neither Little Lin nor Little Yu is perfect. They'll grow as the story goes on.

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