戾王嗜妻如命 (Tyrannical Wang/[Prince]’s Beloved Wife) by 昭昭 (Zhao Zhao)
Chinese historical romance published in 2016

Other people’s bad reputation, if not because of themselves, then it’s slandered by others. Jing Wan’s bad reputation wasn’t because of herself, but schemed by her future husband. Jing Wan’s bad reputation wasn’t caused by others, but of his design, only for the sake of marrying the woman he has had eyes on for two lifetimes! One unable to take a bride, one unable to marry. Because he was the number one handsomest man, but she wasn’t the number one beauty. So it was still her who has earned? What the hell?

After marrying, the husband’s close beautiful servant girls didn’t try to crawl onto the bed, but instead served her like an ancestor. The previous stewards didn’t monopolize the power, but instead handed over in great detail all the properties and even the husband’s private funds. So strange no matter how one looks at it! After getting along day and night, she discovered that her husband suffers from a severe case of crazy, please cure!

“Husband, just what do you like about me? I’ll change, just please stop being weird.”

His disease acting up in seconds, telling you with his actions, just how strong his possessive desires towards you are, that’s how much care you must give back.

Alright, for the sake of his disease not becoming more severe, and seeing how there’s no concubines or mistresses or other little demons, Jing Wan rolled up her up sleeves and went all out. – taken from NU 

I’m late with my TBR review because of life and site issues … and I didn’t know which book to review for the April TBR prompt of “No Place Like Home” … but I decided to go with Tyrannical [Prince]’s Beloved Wife because in the end the characters go home. It seems silly but this is a behemoth of a book. A quick estimate is that the book is roughly 2,356,000 words. (There are 1178 sections and the translator had indicated each was usually around 2,000 words. Formally the book has 589 chapters, and 68 extras.) What impressed me was despite how just almost insanely long this book was, I read all of it – I skimmed at most parts of five sections, which is not much at all. (And most of it was just schemes I wasn’t interested in.) There was so much rich history, character development, just an incredibly vibrant world created here. Continue reading →