Southwest Wind

The Li family has rebellion in its blood. Li Zhi's older siblings are all little tyrants, while she alone has been sweet and well-behaved since childhood, the darling of the elders in her family.

They were afraid she would suffer, so they took care of everything for her. They chose her schools when she was young and her career when she grew up. They even arranged her job and the husband she would spend the rest of her life with.

Their choice was Song Junhuai, Granduncle Two's prized student. He was a suitable match for her in family background and temperament, and had already achieved a great deal in his field. He was the very picture of a promising young man.

According to rumor, his only flaw was that he was a little clueless about romance.

Three months later, a pair of strangers who were thirty percent familiar and seventy percent unfamiliar became husband and wife in front of both their families.

The next morning, they looked at each other in confusion and asked in unison, "Why are you in my house?"

Then they realized at the same time: Oh, I'm married. This is my husband/wife.

And so their married life began. Little by little, Li Zhi discovered that her husband actually said all the right things.

Li Zhi: Granduncle Two, this is what you call clueless about romance?

After observing his wife for a while, Song Junhuai concluded that she was nothing like the sweet and well-behaved girl everyone described.

Song Junhuai: I told you, naturally occurring genetic mutations are never that easy!

"Which wind do you like best? How about the northwest wind?"

"No, I like the southwest wind best. After all, 'I would become the southwest wind, and fly into your embrace forever.'"

"Sweet talk won't work. It won't lessen your punishment."

"I'm not trying to get out of trouble. It just came to mind."

A supposedly sweet and gentle wife & a husband rumored to be clueless about romance

(2024.12.27)

P.S. "I would become the southwest wind, and fly into your embrace forever" is from Cao Zhi's poem "The Moon Shines High Above the Tower," written during the Wei-Jin period.

P.P.S. No one secretly falls in love first, and there is no long-laid plan. It's simply a story about a couple who get their marriage certificate first and fall in love afterward, in the reverse order.

Theme: It doesn't matter if your order is different from everyone else's, as long as things turn out well.