Marrying My Archenemy

Coming soon: After the Most Hated Man Forced Himself on the Dragon-Prince, please add it to your collection

Cheerful puppy Xu Ji, gong x gentle, devoted husband Jiang Ling, shou

Xu Ji is reborn when he's in his forties. The old man has just settled into his coffin, ready to die peacefully and be buried with his wife, when a flash of white light...

The man in his forties turns into a handsome sixteen-year-old.

The first thing Xu Ji does as a handsome sixteen-year-old is defect from his own side to find, um...

His wife.

At the time, his wife is still an eighteen-year-old beauty with straight bangs, quiet and reserved but incredibly gentle. As he flees, Xu Ji happily wonders how to win his wife's heart. Sure enough, he soon spots his darling wife. So excited that he thinks his wife has come to pick him up, he opens his arms and rushes toward him, forgetting that they're still enemies at this point...

His darling wife's spear abruptly pierces his shoulder.

Xu Ji: "..."

Taking his wife's spear, well...

This isn't him coming to pick Xu Ji up. It's him sending him off.

Mistaken for a spy, Xu Ji is hauled off to his wife's military camp.

There's no torture or interrogation. The moment Xu Ji sees his wife, he volunteers absolutely everything.

Thinking this will earn his wife's trust, Xu Ji waits expectantly, eyes wide, for his wife's response.

Who knew being too eager would backfire?

His wife's suspicions of him only grow.

...Xu Ji thinks he's not long for this world.

Fortunately, battle comes quickly, and everything Xu Ji revealed proves true. Seeing his wife warm up to him, Xu Ji is freed and immediately trots over, tail wagging.

Even though his warm enthusiasm is always met with his wife's cold shoulder, Xu Ji never tires of it. If anything, he's all too happy to keep doing it.

...Even when he takes a blade for his wife, losing an arm and unable to touch or hug him one last time,

he still considers it worthwhile.

Content warnings

1. The bonus alternate-universe story includes pregnancy and childbirth. The shou has a first love and an adopted son.

2. The entire timeline has been rewritten. Xu Ji is two years younger than Jiang Ling.

3. The couple are very, very devoted to each other.

4. The shou has loved someone before, but it didn't work out. He has an adopted son.

5. The shou is intersex.

Next up: After the Most Hated Man Forced Himself on the Dragon-Prince

01

When the most hated man is brought back to his family, his father doesn't care for him, and his mother doesn't love him.

The whole family hates this "real young master" who showed up out of nowhere, including the most hated man himself.

He doesn't like this home, full of schemes and hostility.

02

The most hated man has a servant boy, whom we'll call the Dragon-Prince during his bitter little melon days.

The Dragon-Prince's family is destroyed, and he's tricked into becoming a slave and serving the most hated man. The bitter little melon, used to being beaten, expects the spoiled and vicious young master from the rumors to kick and punch him. But one night...

The most hated young master reaches out and personally applies medicine to his still-healing wounds.

03

The most hated man says he and the Dragon-Prince are alike.

The Dragon-Prince doesn't understand what he means, but from that night on, he gradually realizes that the young master might not be as awful as the rumors say.

...In fact, he's rather pitiful.

04

The two bitter little melons rely on each other to survive, year after year in the deep courtyard. At last, just as dawn is about to break, the Dragon-Prince falls into a ravine during an assassination attempt arranged by the fake young master. His body is shattered, and he vanishes.

That very night, the most hated man becomes a madman in everyone's eyes, a "lunatic who married a dead man," and the most hated man in the world.

05

When a wall falls, everyone pushes it.

In the third year, still unable to find the Dragon-Prince, the most hated man loses all hope. He finally prepares to end his life.

Suddenly, a figure rushes toward him and pulls him into a tight embrace.

Weeping with joy.

Everyone says the young lord of Withered Snow Manor must be a fool to marry a widower who's gone mad.

Only the most hated man knows that the person who has returned to marry him

is the very person he once meant to marry.

1. Includes pregnancy and childbirth.

2. An excessive amount of shou-focused angst.

3. Falsely hated by everyone, secretly loved by everyone.

4. I love stories where the Dragon-Prince rises to power later on, avenges his wife, and spoils him rotten.

Theme: People need to learn to cherish what they have. Learn to value the present instead of looking back at the past. Otherwise, those who never learn to cherish what they have will keep losing it.