Twelve Years a Widower (Female-Dominant World)

Cheng Xie lost his father when he was young. After his mother remarried, she treated him like a thorn in her side and sold him to Shen Qingchen, a woman from a neighboring village, as her husband for five taels of silver. At first, he was careful and timid. Gradually, he discovered that his wife was a wonderful person, and he fell deeply in love with her. He gave birth to twins and thought their life was finally getting better, only for his wife to die on the battlefield in a war. In the first year after his wife's death, Cheng Xie and the children relied on his wife's parents for support, and the whole family fell into dire straits. In the third year after his wife's death, someone crept into his home at night. He fought back with all his might, but his father-in-law did not understand. Cheng Xie and the children were driven out of the Shen family, and from then on his temperament changed completely. He became gloomy and sinister. In the seventh year after his wife's death, his own family stole his children and sold them. He grabbed a knife, wounded three people, and rescued the children. From then on, he gained a fearsome reputation. In the eleventh year after his wife's death, the children were old enough to be matched for marriage, but his reputation dragged them down, leaving him nearly hopeless. In the twelfth year after his wife's death, his wife came back. Reader's Guide: 1. Happy ending 2. Matriarchal society, men give birth 3. The male lead will suffer 4. The female lead transmigrated into a fetus and was quite young when she transmigrated 5. Updates are on the hour. At other times, I'm just fixing typos. Any typos I haven't fixed are ones I'm afraid to touch in case they get held up for review, sob. Coming Soon "Marrying Down" Their betrothals were switched before the wedding, and her childhood sweetheart married someone else. Xia He was lowborn and had no say in the matter. She was forced to marry a highborn gentleman she had met only once. Unhappy about it, she took to drinking, having fun, and betting on cricket fights. She did anything that involved having fun, day after day, just to show her new husband that no amount of authority could bend her spine. She didn't like him, and she wasn't the talented, ambitious person he imagined her to be. To her surprise, after they married, her noble husband didn't urge her to study. Instead, he begged sweetly to come along whenever she went out to have fun. When they went drinking, he stepped in to drink for her, then got so drunk he could barely stand and told her she was beautiful. When they bet on cricket fights, he won every time. Whenever he got excited, he would hug her without a care for who might be watching. At the shows, he went onstage himself to compete. Xia He watched her noble, handsome husband put on a show for her and could only think she must have gone mad. Unable to refuse him, she treated him like a plaything and took out all her frustrations on him. Cui Yang took it all in stride, telling her she was doing great, that she had a real spark, and that he liked it. Xia He had never met anyone like him. But she had to admit that life with him was truly delightful. Just as she thought the two of them would muddle along together for the rest of their lives, her childhood sweetheart came back. Reader's Guide: 1. One-on-one, happy ending 2. Men give birth Theme: The little joys hidden in everyday life