The Fatherly Minister Walks Into an Explicit Novel

At sixteen or seventeen, Sun Shuning was breathtakingly beautiful, like a lotus rising fresh from the water.

Her parents were no good at business, and the Sun family's only bookshop was on the brink of ruin. They could barely make ends meet, while her childhood sweetheart pressured her to become his concubine and declared that no matchmaker was allowed to come asking for her hand.

With the family on the verge of being thrown out onto the street, she had no choice but to take charge.

How could she bring the bookshop back to life?

One day, Sun Shuning saw the powerful chief minister pass by in his sedan chair, with gongs clearing the way and water sprinkled over the streets. He was every bit as imposing and noble as they said!

A brilliant idea suddenly came to her.

A certain kind of illustrated storybook suddenly became impossible to keep in stock in the capital. Even the officials attending court had one each.

They huddled in corners to discuss them,

while carefully avoiding the chief minister.

The chief minister found this curious. He recalled that the servants at home had recently been reading illustrated storybooks and discussing them whenever he was out of earshot.

His expression darkened. He walked over to the colleague nearest him. "Hand it over!"

"The chief minister paid no heed to the crowd around him. He lifted the woman's chin with one hand and gripped her soft waist with the other. His eyes bloodshot, he gave in to his desire and kissed her fiercely and possessively..."

The chief minister opened to a random page. The obscene words stung his eyes. "Guards! Search the entire city and arrest the culprit. I want to see them within the hour!"

Sun Shuning's bookshop was shut down, and the chief minister's collection of dirty books was found to fill ten huge carts.

She was taken to the chief minister's residence, too.

With her life in danger, Sun Shuning could only hope that the chief minister would give her a quick death.

But one night, the chief minister cornered her, gripping the illustrated storybook she'd written in one hand and her slender waist in the other. Gritting his teeth, he asked, "Don't you want to find out what a fierce and possessive kiss feels like?"

Little Scene:

Half a month after their wedding, the chief minister was reading one storybook every night.

Sun Shuning rubbed her aching waist and begged for mercy. "My lord, not tonight!"

The chief minister flipped to the page with the illustrations. "You've got quite an imagination. Let me show you in person!"

Sun Shuning counted on her fingers. She had written eighteen storybooks in all. If she could just hold out for three more days, she'd finally get some rest.

On the nineteenth day, the chief minister showed up in their bedroom with ink, brushes, paper, and inkstone.

Sun Shuning: "My lord, what are you..."

Chief Minister: "If I don't teach you something new, what will you write about in your next book? Come, your husband will teach you in person!"

Coming Soon: After Taking on Both Branches of the Family, My Husband Returns

On the second day after Xinyuan married into the Duke's household, her husband was ordered to depart for war.

Three years later came news that he had rebelled.

The Duke's title was stripped away.

The family became a pack of traitors reviled by everyone.

The second son of the Duke's household was driven to break off his engagement as a result. Worried that the family would have no heirs, her mother-in-law forced Xinyuan to take on the duty of providing heirs for both branches of the family.

After she successfully gave birth to a baby boy, her rebel husband...

returned.

Theme: Hard work will eventually pay off.