Chapter 36: The Bar on Xipu Street
Li Zhenguan looked at the neon lights outside, expressionless.
“Sister, my marriage with Wang Zhao won’t be affected in any way,” his face reflected in the car window had an unusually cold quality, “Legally, we already have a substantial marital relationship.”
Li Zhenwei pinched the bridge of her nose, finding it difficult to explain that for a woman, sometimes those two red booklets are really hard to be effective. If one’s heart is a bit harder, marriage can also turn into divorce.
In the end, she only said one sentence: “I’ll have someone investigate and send you the results on your phone. You’re pregnant now, you need to use your head when doing things. You know Wang Zhao’s personality, she’s not the type to compromise easily. On some matters, you should learn to be a bit more yielding.”
However, as she said this, Li Zhenwei paused for a moment, because she realized that the most yielding person in the family was actually Li Zhenguan. In front of Wang Zhao, he was basically a lump of dough.
For a moment, Li Zhenwei suddenly felt that she didn’t need to worry anymore. Li Zhenguan wouldn’t be at a disadvantage in any case.
“Alright, go home early tonight. Dad has specially hired a nutritionist for you. Get used to it in these few days. After you get married, he can go with you,” Li Zhenwei said.
Only then did Li Zhenguan remember that he had forgotten to mention one thing: “Sister, I’ll be living with Wang Zhao at the Wang family’s place later, and won’t be moving out for now. You know the house on Golden Avenue was just recently renovated. Wang Zhao thinks it’s not safe for me as a pregnant man to move in there, so she decided to wait half a year before moving in.”
If he lived at the Wang family’s place, there really wasn’t any room to accommodate a nutritionist.
Li Zhenwei frowned: “Don’t you have a hillside villa under your name? Dad has had it all prepared, and you said before that you wanted to live there. Dad even had the designers and stylists redo all the furniture, bedding, and clothes.”
“It won’t be convenient for Wang Zhao to live there after she starts working, and her work nature is a bit special, so it’s not good to live there,” Li Zhenguan explained, “Anyway, I’m pregnant now, so I’ll just live here for now. Wang Zhao said we should be able to move over before I give birth. Some furniture still needs to be shipped from Italy and Germany.”
“Then you go tell Dad yourself. He’s worried you won’t eat well after marriage, that’s why he specially prepared a nutritionist for you.” Li Zhenwei couldn’t be bothered to worry about the young couple’s affairs. After saying this and giving Li Zhenguan a couple more reminders, she hung up the phone.
By this time, almost everyone in the entire office had left, with only her office still lit. This had become the norm, so the employees were used to the boss working overtime.
Li Zhenwei actually felt the office was a bit too quiet, so she decided not to go home. She sent a text message to Yang Jin, saying she would be home tonight and asking Zhang Shu to prepare some late-night snacks.
Li Zhenguan, on the other hand, reached the street in just half an hour by car.
Xipu Street was even livelier at night, with restaurants on both sides full of people. The neon lights gave the street a somewhat surreal feel. Some drunk youngsters sat on the roadside, talking nonsense.
Li Zhenguan had the driver park not far from The Shell. He didn’t get out of the car, just sat there watching the flickering neon lights of the bar across the street. He rolled down the window and called Wang Zhao again.
Still, no one answered.
The driver in the front glanced at Li Zhenguan’s expression through the rearview mirror and hesitantly spoke up: “Young Master, should I get out and take a look? We might run into Miss Wang Zhao.”
“No need, we’ll just wait for her out here,” Li Zhenguan said calmly, just looking at the bar entrance from across the street.
Meanwhile, Wang Zhao had been inside for about an hour. The band’s performance had just ended, and the whole place was starting to heat up and get rowdy.
A host walked up, a foreign woman wearing a simple suit, speaking English, occasionally saying something that made the whole place burst into laughter.
Wang Zhao and her friends had great seats, right near the stage and close to the aisle. It was clear that Xu Yingchun had spent a lot this time.
There were quite a few foreigners visible in the venue, with Chinese people not even making up the majority. Besides the first floor, there were also people sitting on the second floor, though the view up there definitely wasn’t as good as on the first floor. Wang Zhao heard several girls next to her excitedly talking about hoping to be selected to go on stage and interact with the dancers.
At this point, Wang Zhao was starting to feel something wasn’t quite right. It wasn’t until four men in suits walked out from backstage and stood in the center of the stage that a chorus of screams erupted from a large group of women around them. Even Xu Yingchun couldn’t help but excitedly wave her hand and shout.
Wang Zhao felt a headache coming on. She knew Xu Yingchun and her group weren’t very reliable and quite reckless, but she never imagined that the “excitement” Xu Yingchun mentioned was coming to watch male strippers. Now she felt like she was in a bit of a predicament.
Xu Yingchun hadn’t even noticed Wang Zhao’s headache at this point. The three of them had completely blended in with the surrounding women, waving and screaming together.
Photography and video recording were prohibited in this place, so no one had taken out their phones. Wang Zhao tapped Xu Yingchun’s shoulder, wanting to say something to her, but just then, she saw the four suits on stage being thrown into the audience, instantly triggering another wave of screams. One of the men’s suits happened to land right on the table of Wang Zhao’s booth.
Xu Yingchun and the other two were getting hyped up.
Wang Zhao had no choice but to give up on talking to these three crazy women. She sat quietly in her seat, waiting for the performance to end, while unable to resist lowering her head to smell her own clothes. She was really worried that the mixed odors of this place would linger on her even after going home tonight. Li Zhenguan now had a nose like a dog and tended to overthink things. She didn’t want to cause any issues.
However, as Wang Zhao sat there with the crowd getting rowdy around her, her gaze inevitably fell on the stage.
Perhaps due to the culture of this world, the men on stage were all of the tall, lean type – the kind that looks reserved when clothed but reveals a toned physique when undressed. Two of the four men were Asian, with skin even fairer than the other two, and features that Chinese people typically find attractive.
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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.
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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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