Congratulations on Your Divorce

Arranged marriage to love | Regretful pursuit of his wife | He convinces himself | Male substitute

Self-proclaimed ice queen, a gloomy beauty vs. A single-minded, brooding mama's boy

In the fifth month of their marriage, Meng Shu wanted a divorce.

On the first day after that, she anonymously joined a famous divorce livestream.

Live viewers: 100,000+

The female lawyer asked her to describe her marriage, saying the viewers in the stream were all her supportive sisters.

"My husband leaves early and comes home late every day, and he hands over his salary on time every month. Valentine's Day, Qixi Festival, Christmas... Oh, and Mother's Day, too. He gives me flowers and gifts for all of them. He takes me along to every event, and he wears his wedding ring on his left ring finger at all times..." Meng Shu said expressionlessly.

Host: Um. This is a divorce livestream, ma'am. Are you sure you're in the right stream?

Viewers: Is she showing off? / I shouldn't be here / (rolls eyes)

Meng Shu continued without reacting. "I'm in the right place."

She slowly turned her stiff eyes and went on. "But all that money just goes back and forth between us. It still belongs to both of us. Every time he gives me 999 roses, my allergies send me to the emergency room. He's wasting our shared money on pointless things. And that wedding ring he always wears should have my name engraved inside, but... it's blank. He works from early morning until late at night, yet all day long I see him in entertainment news with different women."

The host was shocked. "Now that makes sense... I mean, ma'am, you are in the right place. Let's see what the women in the stream have to say."

The comments immediately took off. "Your husband is trying to kill you! / (Retracting what I just said) / So that bastard wears a ring engraved with the name of his mistress and had a fake one made to play the devoted husband? / Next time someone asks me to get married, I'll show them this case!"

Meng Shu blinked and asked sincerely, "How can I win my husband's heart back?"

Everyone: ... (A hopeless romantic, and today we've seen the worst of it.)

Ignoring the flood of comments saying "Good luck," "Stay together forever," and "Keep him around to kiss your feet," Meng Shu said calmly, "I don't care about getting a little more or less money in the divorce. I want him to fall in love with me. I want every cent of our shared property to become my personal property, so we won't have to deal with splitting assets anymore. So, how can I be a good wife and make him fall in love with me?"

The livestream went quiet for two seconds, then erupted like never before.

Gifts like luxury yachts and sports cars flooded the stream.

The host clenched her jaw and dug her nails into her thigh to keep from laughing. Just as her smile began to hurt, Meng Shu gave a soft click of her tongue. "Never mind. There are too many people watching. This could be dangerous for me." Then she left the call.

Comments: Not just you... he's in danger, too.

After leaving the call, Meng Shu picked up How to Make Your Husband Cherish You Forever and continued reading attentively.

*

His wife had always been innocent, kind, beautiful, and fragile. Whether she sat or stood, moved or stayed still, she was like a pale, perfect plaster sculpture, displayed on the shelf labeled "Wife," dazzlingly white and yet alluring.

Xu You thought he loved his wife, too. After all, he coveted everything beautiful, whether money, power, possessions, or people, especially when it was something that should never have belonged to him. He took care of everything he possessed, and of course that included this "wife."

He put effort into learning to be a good husband. He dragged himself out early and came home late seven days a week, even though the office was empty on weekends. He handed most of his weekly earnings to his wife, then used the pocket money he kept for himself to forge a wedding ring he ought to have but didn't. He wore it to every kind of event, proclaiming his fidelity. He remembered every anniversary and holiday, big or small, and presented her with gifts and flowers, even though she was always so moved that she fled in a panic.

But his wife still loved him. It wasn't hard to tell from the books she studied.

So, to keep her from getting upset, he tried even harder to play the part of her husband, since her husband, his older brother, had been "dead" for a long time.

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Back when I was a little beggar stealing food from dogs,

Shen Pian was the only daughter of the Shen family, adored by everyone.

Shen Pian looked at me, and I stared back at her.

I asked, "Why do we look exactly alike?"

She put an arm around me, filthy but bright-eyed. "Just think of me as your older sister."

But it was an established fact that the Madam of the Shen family had only one daughter.

*

Shen Pian died. Yet when she opened her eyes, she was alive, safe and sound in the Shen family home.

Her mother told her, "Hurry downstairs and meet your uncle. He's just returned from abroad."

Shen Pian was stunned.

Shen Chuan hadn't just returned from abroad. He had driven her brother to his death and her sister-in-law insane, then inherited the entire Shen family fortune. And that wasn't all. He was a complete lunatic...

But when she went downstairs and saw Shen Chuan, he was every inch the refined gentleman, calm as a breeze beneath a bright moon.

Just like when they'd first met.

The man who had once trapped her in his arms and rasped, "I only want you," merely glanced at her now. "So this is the long-lost daughter my brother found?"

Shen Pian: Had she been reborn?

*

But none of this was right. None of it!

Shen Pian knew she had been twenty-one when the Shen family found her.

But here, she had been brought back into the Shen family at eighteen.

Shen Chuan had appeared early. What about the other two men?

*

"From now on, you'll be called Shen Pian. All right?"

"Which Pian?"

"The Pian in Piaoxian, meaning graceful and ethereal."

Everyone said the Shen family's only daughter was sweet and gentle, but Shen Pian remembered putting on pretty clothes just like hers and brazenly sneaking into the Shen home right in front of the housekeeper.

Of course, that wasn't the strangest thing about her older sister.

Shen Pian could see three progress bars above her head.

[Shen Chuan's Affection: 0%]

[Lin Yu's Affection: 0%]

[Gu Yuji's Affection: 0%]

Yet every time her sister saw those three men, she would instinctively feel her heart race and start vomiting.

Shen Pian could no longer pretend she hadn't noticed. Pointing at the bars above Shen Pian's head, she asked, "What happens when they reach 100%? Will you be happy, Sister?"

Theme: Brave and steadfast people seek love.