Is My Wife Coming Home Today?

[The cover features the protagonist, Gu Yuan, commissioned art. Staged 1v1 romance. All 24 commissioned illustrations featuring the protagonist have been posted.] Gu Yuan is beautiful and indifferent, a notorious social butterfly among Nancheng’s wealthy elite. Men look down on him at first, only to find themselves unable to resist fawning over him and indulging him. But no matter what they do, they can’t move this beauty in the slightest. Gu Yuan treats it all as nothing more than casual amusement. Until one day, a friend got drunk and, carried away in the moment, said to Gu Yuan: “You always think that nobody could ever do anything to you.” He gazed into the beauty’s dark, smiling eyes, utterly mesmerized. “Do you know Yu Chaoyun?” he said. “Do you know… he has a certain old flame from years ago?” * The Yu family is the real power behind Nancheng. Yu Chaoyun, the head of this generation, is a reserved, sinister man who is notoriously difficult to get along with. The spoiled rich kids find him boring, but they love gossiping about the lord of Nancheng. They say Yu Chaoyun had an old flame ten years ago, the kind of old flame… well, everyone knows what that means. “Let’s make a bet.” His friend took off his watch and set it on the table. “You’ve been bored lately, haven’t you? If you can seduce the two of them, the watch is yours.” He was drunk out of his mind to wager a watch worth over a hundred thousand yuan on these two. And Gu Yuan accepted. * A melodramatic, deliciously angsty game that begins with a bet. Gu Yuan: a fickle, flirtatious beauty, the shou The romance is just as the title promises: old-school, over-the-top angst from beginning to end. At heart, this is a shou-centric melodrama, so it may not suit readers looking for a sweet, lovey-dovey couple. Content warnings: melodramatic plot, dark themes, lots of potential triggers. The shou’s characterization takes priority over everything. No suggestive interactions between gong characters, and no side couples. A possible common trigger: I personally love characters mouthing off and insulting those who pursue the shou, and there’s a very high concentration of that here. Please take note. The main gong is pure; the slightly angsty gong is pure too. A cannon-fodder gong who appears for three chapters is not; all other named cannon-fodder characters with significant roles are pure. [Coming soon: The Hated Sword Cultivator After Losing His Memories] [Xianxia + overpowered, swoon-worthy shou + melodramatic hated-to-beloved transformation] Jian Chuo has lost his memory. Before losing his memory, he was the senior disciple of a righteous immortal sect and the sole apprentice of the Sword Venerable of his time. He should have had a smooth path to immortality, a heaven-blessed prodigy born to be admired and revered by all. * After losing his memory, Jian Chuo is abandoned by everyone and cast out and despised by his sect. He grievously wounded the Sword Venerable, committed the heinous crime of betraying his master, and became entangled with demonic cultivators. He has a cultivation partner whom Jian Chuo himself forcibly took. The other man doesn’t love Jian Chuo at all and even hates him with a passion. Everyone is waiting to laugh at him, expecting the once-revered prodigy to be abandoned by his partner. * The thing is, Jian Chuo remembers none of this. Listening to it all feels like hearing some absurd, melodramatic tale, especially the part about his cultivation partner… Jian Chuo is quite sure he doesn’t love this partner, even though the other man has done nothing wrong. He only wants a divorce… or to be widowed. His situation is a complete mess. He is badly injured, and his cultivation has fallen. Demonic cultivators are hunting him, the righteous sects despise him, and the unfortunate partner at his side would love nothing more than to kill him. The once peerless senior disciple of an immortal sect has truly been dragged down into the mire. But he is Jian Chuo, the Jian Chuo who is best at solving every problem with his sword. “You want to kill me?” The sword cultivator drew his blade and gently asked his partner, “Don’t worry… I only need one strike to kill someone. I’ll make sure you don’t suffer.” A melodramatic hated-to-beloved story: the shou handles leveling up and fighting monsters, while the gong is a lovesick, jealous mess, all angsty and bittersweet. Couple: warm on the outside, cool on the inside, gentle and in control, swoon-worthy shou x gongs with all kinds of personalities. The main plot follows the broken-engagement trope. Content warnings: 1. The shou kills his husbands, and some gongs may get killed more than once (they’re tough). 2. Lots of descriptions of cannon-fodder characters casting dark, twisted gazes at the shou. Please indulge my personal tastes. 3. The shou is not straight; he just doesn’t much like his husbands. All the gongs are pure. 4. There will be a huge amount of df x r aimed at the shou. Please indulge my personal tastes. 5. Melodrama! Dark themes! Lots of potential triggers. The only guarantee is that the story centers on the shou, whose characterization takes priority over everything. 6. Contains lots of over-the-top, chuunibyou-style scenes inspired by old-school power-fantasy stories about proving everyone wrong. Theme: A happy marriage takes patience and care. 2":"Apology Statement: My work, The Beautiful Beta Was Marked by His Obsessive Boss, plagiarized parts of Forbidden Rose by author Qian Fei. I hereby offer author Qian Fei my sincere apologies. I am truly sorry. I have fully recognized my mistake and will not do anything like this again. I also ask everyone to keep an eye on me. Theme: Breaking down ethnic prejudice