Sentenced to Be a Lazy Man's Husband

Xu Jianqiu was a young man from a well-to-do family in town. He was handsome, too, and had been betrothed to the second son of the Hu family when he was fourteen. Everyone envied him.

When he was sixteen, with only a month left until the wedding, the second son of the Hu family passed the county-level scholar examination, while Xu Jianqiu fell into the water.

A young man rescued him. He wasn't in danger of losing his life, and he didn't fall ill, but the Hu family took the matter to the county court.

Master Hu wanted to break off the engagement, but Madam Hu disagreed, so they asked the county magistrate to decide.

Xu Jianqiu had once met the county magistrate, but at the time he hadn't known the man was a magistrate. He only knew the man's demands were unreasonable, so he had argued with him.

The magistrate recognized him. Not only did he declare the engagement between the Xu and Hu families void, he also ordered Xu Jianqiu to marry Qi Sheng, a lazy man from a poor village.

The same man who had rescued him.

Qi Sheng's home was bare. He had no parents above him, no children below him, and only a cat for company.

The Xu family sighed and lamented, but Xu Jianqiu himself didn't think things were all that bad.

He thought Qi Sheng was handsome and decent. Though he had seemed slack at first, whenever Xu Jianqiu urged him to do something, he would do it.

As for money, they were both healthy and able-bodied. They could earn it little by little.

He thought that way as he began his life with Qi Sheng, but gradually realized that the other man didn't seem like an ordinary person.

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Qi Sheng had once been the illegitimate son of an official's family. He was diligent and hardworking, and hailed as a genius, but in the end his legitimate older brother took all his scholarly honors for himself.

His lawsuit failed, and his own father even sent people to assassinate him.

After surviving a great disaster by sheer luck, Qi Sheng became the "lazy man" of a poor village.

He took things as they came, working one day and resting for three, with his savings close to zero.

One day, after finishing his work, he was wandering around town when he saw a young man who had fallen into the water. He happened to be in a good mood, so he took pity on him and saved him.

From then on, he had a sweet and gentle husband.

From then on, he could no longer be a lazy man, or his husband would get angry.

He grew vegetables and raised livestock. Their days became busy, their household savings grew, and their love never changed.

Theme: Work hard and strive forward, and life will gradually get better.