A Sweetheart's Guide to Taming Her Husband

(Both leads find happiness + marriage first, love later + slow-burn romance) Bai Nianwan had been frail since childhood. When she was sent to Jiangnan to recuperate, a shaman told her that a major calamity awaited her. If she survived it safely, the rest of her life would be smooth sailing, and she would live to a hundred. After her coming-of-age ceremony, the emperor arranged her marriage to the infamous playboy Xiao Shizi of the capital. Bai Nianwan never expected to see him beating someone in the street on her very first day in the capital... The road to taming her husband looked long and difficult. At first, Xiao Shizi was dead set against getting married. He hadn’t had his fill of fun yet, so why would he take a wife who would keep him in line? At first sight, Bai Nianwan looked delicate and frail, easy enough to control. He figured there was no harm in marrying her. On their wedding night, before he could even assert his authority as a husband, she went limp in his arms and murmured softly, “My lord, my chest hurts...” His heart melted at once, and she had him wrapped around her finger instead. Later, the fun-loving Xiao Shizi stopped fighting crickets, drinking, and going to the gambling dens. He even began working hard to make something of himself. The other playboys couldn’t bear to watch. “Your Lordship, you spend all day with your wife. Are you afraid of her?” Too proud to let the rumor stand, he went with them to a brothel, but stopped just short of going inside. Somehow, the whole thing still reached Bai Nianwan’s ears, and the usually gentle woman lost her composure. “If you want me dead, then go ahead and anger me! Once you’ve angered me to death, you can find someone new!” She was a delicate flower he couldn’t scold, criticize, or upset. Xiao Ling’an felt he was completely at her mercy for the rest of his life, and coaxed her in a soft voice. “Xiao Wan, I didn’t go in. You’re the only one I’ll ever have, and the only one I want!”