Chapter 61 – She’s a Woman Living in a Female-Dominant Society, She Must Care that He was Touched…
After this trip out, experiencing the cruelty of the outside world, he should be able to completely give up, right?
Wen Zhaoyin sometimes really didn’t quite understand why Meng Huan’s longing for the outside was so strong. Men need a sense of security and need women’s protection, but he stubbornly wanted to support his own world.
Although he didn’t succeed, this kind of thinking was still very novel. Among the men she had seen, he was absolutely unique.
Letting him leave this time was not sincere about letting him go, but wanting him to see the reality clearly and return to her side.
As for the exclusion Meng Huan encountered while living in the village, the setbacks at the escort agency, or being abducted by human traffickers in the end, she was not involved in any of it and only sent people to follow along and let things develop naturally.
For a man, traveling alone was too difficult. There was no need for her to manipulate anything. Thousands of difficulties would come one after another.
It’s just that she didn’t expect that sending two people to protect him was not enough, and Meng Huan was actually abducted by human traffickers and nearly…
Thinking of this, she inexplicably felt a bit irritated. She wanted to go see him originally, but Wen Zhaoyin suddenly changed her mind and temporarily didn’t want to meet.
She turned towards Qingzhu Garden.
Meng Huan had just walked into the room when he saw a steaming bathtub already set up inside, with two dedicated attendants standing by and waiting.
He had only been out for half a month, but coming back again, he felt a little dazed.
He looked up at the famous calligraphy and paintings hanging on the wall, the gauze screen beside it, and the rosewood couch and boxwood low table under the window…
The houses in the village were narrow and cramped, with dim lighting inside and the endless noise of barking dogs and crowing roosters outside.
Now, Qingzhu Garden was very different, with carved beams and painted rafters, tinkling jade pendants, groups of attendants, and the sound of birds and the fragrance of flowers. The two could be distinguished as superior and inferior without comparison.
“Wen Xi, we’re back again.”
He untied his sash and stepped into the wooden tub with the help of a small ladder. Seeing the attendants sprinkling unknown spices and dried flowers, his tense mood over the past half month also relaxed.
Damn it! This is the place for people to stay!
For the sake of Wen You, Wen Zhaoyin couldn’t kill him after all. Moreover, he had the face of her proper husband, so she definitely wouldn’t bear to let him get hurt either.
Since that’s the case, being imprisoned, he’d been imprisoned before; being slept with, he’d been slept with before too. There was really nothing to be afraid of. Whatever punishment she had, just let her bring it on.
Actually, during this half month, he occasionally thought of what Xie Yunjin said that morning before he left. What did it matter whether they looked alike or not? Their personalities were always different. She definitely couldn’t really tell them apart.
Thinking about it this way, it seemed that being a body double wasn’t as unacceptable anymore.
After the bath, he didn’t rush to rest. The spiritually numb man committing suicide was still vivid in his mind, flashing through his thoughts from time to time. He definitely wouldn’t be able to sleep peacefully for a while.
However, Wen Zhaoyin didn’t come to find him at this time either. He couldn’t figure out her thoughts and was still a little apprehensive in his heart. Taking advantage of this time, he planned to go to the west wing to take a look at Wen You.
Who would have thought that when he went, he didn’t see Wen You, but only the wet nurse was there.
After asking, he learned that not long after he left, Zu Jun ordered people to take Wen You to the small courtyard every day to play with Xie Yunjin, who stayed in the mansion. Only when the child was really fussy and didn’t want to stay would he be sent back.
The wet nurse looked a little haggard and said bitterly, “Young master, this servant doesn’t know if it should be said or not, but Zu Jun also found a wet nurse. However, he is too young and inexperienced and often doesn’t know how to take care of the young master…”
“Moreover, a few days ago, he only stayed for a short while before being sent back. These past few days, he’s been staying for longer and longer. I don’t know if it’s good or bad…”
Meng Huan immediately slammed the table angrily, “Of course it’s extremely bad! Wen You is my child. What are they taking him for? Go, come with me to the small courtyard to bring him back!”
Although he usually didn’t take care of the child much, for better or worse, it was his own child. What did it have to do with those people?
Especially Xie Yunjin, what was he playing with his child for?
He tugged the wet nurse and walked out angrily, but unexpectedly, he was stopped by the guards, saying that he was under house arrest and couldn’t leave this courtyard.
Meng Huan became even angrier. They didn’t stop him before, but now they suddenly blocked him. Were they trying to anger him to death?
“You go. You and Wen Xi go together and bring Wen You back to me right now!”
Fortunately, the guards only stopped him and didn’t stop others. Wen Xi and the wet nurse successfully went out the door and trotted towards the small courtyard.
He didn’t go back to the room and just stood at the door waiting dryly. He didn’t know how long he waited before he saw the two of them returning with the child in their arms.
Meng Huan wiped his face and opened his hands to take Wen You from the wet nurse’s arms. Just as he wanted to take a closer look at him, the child started wailing loudly in his arms.
“What’s going on…” He was a bit stunned. This child had never cried when he held him before.
The wet nurse answered beside him, “Maybe it’s because he hasn’t seen you for half a month, so the child is a bit shy with strangers. If you hold him for a while, maybe he’ll get better.”
“Is that so?”
Meng Huan held him awkwardly and swayed for a while, but it still had no effect.
Having no choice, he could only walk into the room, lift his clothes, and try feeding him a little.
This child didn’t remember the person but remembered the taste of his food source. He finally quieted down and was willing to let him hold him.
“You little ingrate, only recognizing food and not people!”
He revealed a bit of a smile unconsciously, then raised his head and instructed the wet nurse, “If Zu Jun’s side still comes to take him tomorrow, don’t give him. If you can’t stop them, come find me immediately.”
When he wasn’t home, there was no way. Now that he was home, these people still wanted to take Wen You away? Impossible!
“Yes.”
Wen Xi was assisting on the side and said with feeling, “Young master, you’ve become haggard from this trip out.”
The wet nurse beside him blinked slightly, thinking that how could going up the mountain to worship Buddha make one haggard? But then he thought that the young master was delicately taken care of at home and didn’t seem to be cut out for fasting and chanting scriptures, so becoming haggard was also to be expected.
Meng Huan’s love for Wen You only lasted for a little while. He liked seeing the child sleeping soundly in his arms, but he didn’t like it when the child cried and fussed about needing to go to the toilet. As soon as he detected signs of that, he immediately tossed the child to the wet nurse and washed his hands of the matter.
After being busy for a whole day, he didn’t let himself rest at all. It seemed that only after exhausting all his energy like this could he fall asleep without thinking about anything.
Just like that, he waited for one day, two days, three days, and Wen Zhaoyin never came.
He finished everything he had to do but still had the energy to overthink. He thought about how she would punish him for his escape and how her ignoring him might be a form of punishment.
If it was true, he really wanted to beg her to change her methods. This childish method of locking him up had long stopped working. He wasn’t afraid at all.
He definitely wouldn’t think about how Xie Yunjin took advantage of his absence to secretly ingratiate himself or how Zu Jun acted as a matchmaker. He was very calm. He wouldn’t be anxious at all.
Sometimes, he would even think of that man who committed suicide to preserve his honor, and those two ringleaders and lackeys who tugged at his clothes.
Thinking of their hands touching him, pinching his arms, thinking of the rules and etiquette in a female-dominant world, thinking of how much the guards who rescued him saw, would they report everything they saw and heard to Wen Zhaoyin?
Could it be that she was unwilling to see him because he was abducted?
In a female-dominant society, wasn’t a man’s chastity what women cared about the most? She was also from the upper-middle class of a feudal society. It wouldn’t be strange for her to care about these things.
Perhaps in Wen Zhaoyin’s eyes, even if he wasn’t violated by those two human traffickers, being touched meant he was dirty?
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If you’re like me…
Too tired of reading stories where the female lead is often foolish, weak, feeble both physically and mentally, usually in a subservient and oppressed role in society such as a maid, secretary, concubine… or to put it bluntly, typically the one who has to serve and please the male lead, always needing protection and rescue from male leads, while the male lead is often described as talented, strikingly handsome, powerful,…
Then please continue reading.
Hi there, girls!
I’m Yuushi L.
Every day, movies and comics continuously reinforce the notion that women are weak, that they can only handle trivial matters in the background, that women are petty-minded and constantly jealous, mocking, and laughing at other women, while men are strong, wealthy, and solely focused on conquering the world, with countless mindless women ready to fall into their arms.
Believe me, once you read Female-dominant (FEDO) novels, your mindset will change significantly.
I am deeply inspired by strong, independent, and rational women who have the power to take control of their lives, and I am fascinated by the way society’s gender roles are reversed in this genre compared to real life.
So I have created this web with the noble purpose of promoting the “Female-dominant (FEDO)” genre of novels.
In my country, there was a rare renowned female poet in ancient times who wrote the following about the fate of women in that era:
“Damn this life of sharing a husband,
One wrapped in warmth, the other left cold.
I’d rather have stayed single from the start,
Than to endure a life so torn apart.”
Perhaps my penchant for reading female-dominant stories is partly a way of rebelling against the realities of life.
On my site, there will be stories that are not only female-dominant novels, as long as they align with my taste, featuring strong female protagonists and fresh, captivating storylines. Usually, they will be modern or fantasy novels.
I rarely read ancient novels that aren’t female-dominant because they often contain details that easily trigger me. These include the portrayal of men having multiple wives and concubines, which was considered utterly normal in ancient society, and the frequent disdain towards women.
I cannot change the world, as the societal structure that discriminates against women and elevates men has existed for thousands of years. Changing it to truly give women an equal role in society is not something that can happen overnight. If you want gender equality now, it’s laughable. It will never happen when over 90% of national and business leaders are men.
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Therefore, you’ll see that most of the novels on my website will belong to this trope. Of course, there will be exceptions.
In the future, I also plan to write my own novels following this concept, where the female lead in my stories will never be the weaker party. I hope I can do it soon.
The novels I highly recommend will be listed under the category:
There will be exceptionally brilliant stories, but there will also be mediocre ones. As the Female-dominant (FEDO) genre has fewer authors and readers, the number of high-quality novels is limited.
Therefore, I want to promote this genre to reach a wider audience, which will encourage more talented authors to choose to write in this style, leading to the birth of more outstanding Female-dominant (FEDO) novels.
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WARNING:
In some novels, there are certain unhealthy ideologies and illegal actions held by the main characters (for example, treating human lives as worthless, or casually deciding to kill someone, forcing others to do things they don’t want to do, arbitrarily imprisoning others, plotting to harm others, using violence to retaliate against violence,…).
This may be because the authors are still young and inexperienced, unaware that what they’re writing goes beyond moral standards and can negatively influence young readers.
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*Spotlight on Finished Novel Translations*
The Male Lead’s Obsessive (Female-dominant)
One-line summary: She is his lifelong obsession, to the point where he was willing to be a third wheel, scorned by society, just to wedge his way into her relationship with her fiancé.
Synopsis:
Cold-hearted and indifferent female lead + Scheming and subservient CEO male lead
Summary:
Rong Xiu’s biggest regret in life was missing out on Fan Xia.
He secretly loved Fan Xia for 7 years.
Watched her go public with her boyfriend.
Watched her kiss her boyfriend at their wedding.
Until that man blissfully nestled in Fan Xia’s arms, obtaining everything he could only dream of.
The crazy jealousy stripped away his hidden secret love, layer by layer, burning like wildfire.
Fan Xia, how can I have you!
【Reading and Trigger Warning Guide】
1. Female dominant, male submissive, male pregnancy
2. Male lead schemes his way to the top, male competition
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