[A wastrel reforms x a young wife whose heart and body belong to someone else]
1.
When Lu Jiuchong returned from the capital, he finally accepted his fate and married the wife his parents had chosen for him.
He felt his ambitions would never get the chance to take flight.
He felt his parents were always nagging him to have an heir before looking to the distant mountains.
He felt like a numb tool for continuing the family line.
But everything began to change on his wedding night with Jiang Heyi.
Because that night, his sweet, delicate bride cried and called out another man's name all night long, and he put up with every bit of it.
2.
Jiang Heyi was the youngest daughter of Minister Jiang. The Jiang family owed the Lu family a favor from years ago, and to repay it, Jiang Heyi was sent to the Lu household to marry Lu Jiuchong, a notorious wastrel.
Before the wedding, Jiang Heyi's mother told her to treat her husband with mutual respect and never say anything inappropriate.
For the sake of both families' reputations, Jiang Heyi had no choice but to hide her admiration for Brother Yi and obediently marry Lu Jiuchong.
After the wedding, however, Jiang Heyi felt that Lu Jiuchong's gaze had become strange.
She thought he was going to find fault with her, but he never did anything.
Her mother-in-law hinted that since she had married into the family, she shouldn't hold Lu Jiuchong's former wastrel ways against him.
Jiang Heyi held up three fingers and swore, “Mother, don't worry. I fell in love with Jiuchong at first sight, and I'm devoted to him. I'll live a good life with him.”
After she said that, she suddenly felt a scrutinizing gaze from behind her.
3.
No one knew that the Lu family's wastrel, Lu Jiuchong, had an odd quirk.
He could watch his own wife call out another man's name in a breathy, sultry voice, and somehow get even more into it as they went on.
He would see his wife sneaking glances at the man she loved at a banquet, then come home and be sweet with him, touching his chest and murmuring drunkenly, “Brother Yi, your chest is so firm.”
Lu Jiuchong: “Other parts of me are pretty firm too.”
The young wife sprawled on top of him and giggled foolishly. “Brother Yi, I'm so happy I married you...”
Marriage first, love later / wastrel reforms / warm and sweet romance / both leads are inexperienced
[Blurb screenshot from 2024.10.5]
Theme: Don't fret about the miles ahead. The wind will carry you there
