The Top Scholar's Beloved Little Husband

[Lighthearted daily life] [Sweet romance] [Absolutely ruthless revenge]

Shi Jingqing is a scholar from Xinghua Village, aloof and taciturn, with his mind set only on books and learning. For ten years, he has made the daily trip to the academy in town to study.

Shi Jingqing is devoted to passing the imperial examinations and becoming an official so he can protect the people of his region. At twenty, he is still unmarried.

The villagers are all anxious for him, but his parents smile and say there's no hurry, that marriage is a matter of fate. They turn away one matchmaker after another.

That's because Shi Jingqing has long been engaged to Du Ge'er, a hunter from the same village. He's just waiting for the young hunter to turn sixteen before bringing him home as his husband.

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After they marry, Shi Jingqing is deeply puzzled. His new husband seems terrified of him. Even an ordinary touch or a little closeness makes the man tremble all over, his eyes red and pitiful.

His new husband speaks even less than he does. Every day, he watches Shi Jingqing from a distance, and the moment Shi Jingqing approaches, he runs off with red-rimmed eyes.

At night, when they make love, his new husband always suppresses his feelings. As if mute, he can only silently shed tears, his eyes red as he stares blankly at the canopy above the bed.

Thinking his husband dislikes the marriage, perhaps even him, Shi Jingqing makes a point of appearing in front of his new husband every day. He wears new clothes, gives him gifts, and tries every way he can think of to win his heart.

Once married, they are the most important people in each other's lives. If they harbor resentment and feel no affection for one another, they'll only waste each other's time and turn a happy match into a bitter one.

He doesn't want them to become a bitter couple.

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Song Yu is the only son of a hunter's family, a taciturn, awkward man with a dirty mind and a secret flirtatious streak.

When he was six, a heavy snowfall nearly killed him, but Shi Jingqing saved him on his way home from school. He fell in love at first sight with the handsome, refined Shi Jingqing.

After that, he often wandered along the village road Shi Jingqing took, just to catch a glimpse of the man he loved, breathe in the lingering scent he left behind, and place his feet in Shi Jingqing's footprints, imagining his beloved pulling him into his arms and making him one with his body.

Every night, the tall, slender man he loved would visit his dreams and make love to him. When he woke, his pillow and sheets were soaked.

A month before turning sixteen, Song Yu received the most wonderful news, as if it had fallen straight from the heavens!

He had been engaged to the man he loved for years, and their wedding would be held on his birthday!

Song Yu was so excited he barely slept for half a month. When he thought about how different he was from the other Ge'ers, he couldn't help worrying.

Other young Ge'ers were shy and reserved, inexperienced in matters of love, and blushed when they saw a handsome man.

He was different. He only blushed for the man he loved. Whenever he saw him, he couldn't stop thinking about stripping off his clothes and lying beneath him, overcome with excitement!

Shy? Not him!

Theme: Even an ordinary life deserves careful tending.