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Both Sect Heads Wanted Out of the Marriage, So They Tried to Ruin the Town Together

A serialized novel · 24 chapters published · 3 free to read

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Two rival sect heads are married by decree and handed a market town to run for a hundred days. The only clean way out is for the town to fail honestly, so each secretly sets out to ruin it, and each secretly can't stop fixing what they break.

Tropes & themes: female lead · romantic comedy · forced proximity · romance · enemies to lovers · small-town · arranged marriage · found family · timeless fantasy · slow burn · manhua romance · steamy

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Chapters

  1. Chapter 1: The Decree Was Read After the Vows (free)
  2. Chapter 2: One Bed and No Wall (free)
  3. Chapter 3: The Worst Wine in the Valley (free)
  4. Chapter 4: Open Hour (free with an account)
  5. Chapter 5: The Night the River Came to Market (free with an account)
  6. Chapter 6: Forty Eggs and a Goat (free with an account)
  7. Chapter 7: The Toll Chain (locked)
  8. Chapter 8: Two Saboteurs and a Saw (locked)
  9. Chapter 9: Four Seconds Too Long (locked)
  10. Chapter 10: The Reeds and the Rain (locked)
  11. Chapter 11: The Rain Did Not Stop (locked)
  12. Chapter 12: A Poem for the Inspector (locked)
  13. Chapter 13: Head Yes and Mistress No (locked)
  14. Chapter 14: Elder Rong's Trunk (locked)
  15. Chapter 15: The Night Shift (locked)
  16. Chapter 16: A Ship at Mid-Autumn (locked)
  17. Chapter 17: Trial of the Ledger (locked)
  18. Chapter 18: Trial of the Cups (locked)
  19. Chapter 19: Nine Little Oddities, Read Aloud (locked)
  20. Chapter 20: The Night Before the River (locked)
  21. Chapter 21: A Beautiful Disaster (locked)
  22. Chapter 22: The Drifted Skiff (locked)
  23. Chapter 23: The First No (locked)
  24. Chapter 24: Ruined, Together (locked)

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