Everyone in Wangjing knew that ever since the Battle of Humen ten years ago, the Song and Ling families had refused to have anything to do with each other. Within a ten-mile radius, only one of their members could appear at a time.
Yet in the twenty-fourth year of Zhaoyuan, the emperor issued an imperial decree: the eldest daughter of the Ling family was betrothed to the Song heir, and the wedding date was to be chosen.
Wangjing erupted in an uproar. This was going to be quite a spectacle. With the two families so hostile to each other, surely the newlyweds would loathe each other.
Physician Xu confirmed that everyone was right. The couple did more than merely loathe one another. They even wanted each other dead.
They came to him one after the other to ask for poison. He told them he had none.
Then they came to him, quite independently, to ask for contraceptives.
They declared outright that they would never have children with each other.
He had indeed developed new contraceptives, one for men and one for women, both harmless to the body. The two happily accepted them.
On the tenth day of the fifth month in the twenty-fourth year of Zhaoyuan, the Song and Ling families held their wedding.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month in the twenty-fourth year of Zhaoyuan, at a palace banquet, the Heir's wife fainted in public and was diagnosed as being more than a month pregnant.
The people of Wangjing thought this was the fastest face-slapping ever. She was pregnant just three months after the wedding. And they called themselves "mortal enemies"?
So they put on a show of hating each other in public, but fought by the bed and made up every night in private, huh?!
The Song and Ling couple looked happy, but inwardly cried out that this was impossible, then hurried to find that quack.
Physician Xu was utterly baffled. It made no sense. The medicine couldn't be wrong.
But things were even stranger than that. The contraceptive that didn't prevent pregnancy had other side effects.
All the hardships of pregnancy that a woman experienced were transferred to her husband.
So the heir suddenly felt like throwing up while discussing matters with his colleagues.
He suffered back pain after drinking with friends.
His legs cramped while accompanying the Crown Prince on a hunting trip.
They say that in a loving marriage, a husband can share his pregnant wife's symptoms. At this rate, the Song heir and his wife could be named Wangjing's most loving couple!
Two men vying for one woman: "I Happily Acquired Two Broad-Minded Husbands" is coming soon.
Readers who are interested are welcome to add it to their collections~
Cheng Yu's husband was a physician, the kind with a benevolent heart.
He was full of compassion. In addition to treating the sick and injured, he often brought home injured creatures he found outside to care for.
Fallen birds, rabbits that had run into trees, injured white snakes, red foxes with short legs. They all made Cheng Yu's heart race.
Fortunately, this was just an ordinary ancient world, not some Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. If he wanted to bring home white snakes and foxes, so be it.
Then one day, her husband brought home a person.
A man who was gravely injured, yet still clearly handsome, dressed in rags that nonetheless seemed to be of excellent quality.
Alarm bells rang in Cheng Yu's mind. You mustn't bring strange men home from the roadside!
However, faced with her husband's pleading eyes and urgent desire to save a life, she had no choice but to grit her teeth and let the man stay.
So Cheng Yu gained three new daily questions: Are you better? Can you leave? Please leave soon!
The answer was always: Not yet. I can't leave. I'll have to stay a few more days.
Whenever her husband saw her trying to drive him away, he would smile helplessly and continue to care for the man with all his heart.
"A Yu, a patient needs rest. Could you be a little more accommodating?"
Later, none of the troubles Cheng Yu had imagined, like the man's enemies coming after them, ever happened. Life remained peaceful, and she relaxed as well.
He seemed like an ordinary person, and she was no longer at daggers drawn with him.
It was her husband who started acting strangely.
Somehow, while caring for the man he'd brought home, he ended up caring for him in his wife's bed!
Cheng Yu didn't notice anything unusual. She just thought her husband had become less patient with the patient.
"Husband, he's just a patient. Could you be a little more tolerant?"
Theme: Let go of personal grudges and put love for all first.
