What Do I Do If My Husband Has Lost His Appetite?

An energetic, story-loving puppy of a girl x a work-worn brocade-clad guard with a delicate constitution

At first, Mei Yangwei paid no attention to this marriage between prominent families.

Buried under mountains of case files and barely able to catch his breath, he had no time for anything else.

To him, Yingzhao was simply a young lady from a wealthy family, married away from the Jiangnan waterways, and the cousin he had never met.

After they married, the overworked Mei Yangwei wasn't particularly interested in sex, either.

More than three months after marrying into the Mei family, lively, active Yingzhao discovered a serious problem.

What do you do when your husband can't get it up?

She was dying to have her handsome, ice-clear husband, but no matter what she tried, she couldn't. This was nothing like the stories said.

A year after the wedding, amid the misty rain of the third lunar month, Jiang Yingzhao boarded a boat home and ran away.

The usually aloof and restrained Mei Yangwei turned the capital upside down looking for her.

When he finally caught her, the usually cool and composed Commander-in-Chief took hold of the girl's smooth, snowy cheek, bent close to her ear, and ground out through clenched teeth:

“I'm not impotent.”

As it turned out, Lord Mei wasn't impotent. He simply hadn't had the time to explore the matter.

[Sweet post-marriage romance. A writing and narrative exercise. Update schedule depends on feedback in the comments.]

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