My Contract Husband Resembles the Male Protagonist

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Four months into marriage. My husband’s frequent outings became suspicious.

He leaves at dawn every morning and returns late at night, which raises questions. However, there was nothing strange. He just works hard and comes home.

We were supposed to stay out of each other’s personal lives since it was a contract marriage anyway…….

Why do I sometimes feel discomfited around him?

“The emperor is still not married.”

“That’s a big deal.”

“I hope he can quickly abandon [the engagement] and marry someone else…….”

My husband Dale is an honorable mercenary well aware of my situation. I hired him on a 364-day marriage contract to try and break off her marriage to the Emperor.

Dale is unlike the Emperor, being pure, innocent, and affectionate.

One day, when I thought “You should marry a man like this.”

A problem arose.

***

Eventually, the day came when I had to return to my noble family.

However, I decided to return to Dale and request that he remain faithful to me.

“You can’t just open the door for someone you don’t know because I’m not there.”

“Yes.”

“Even if you’re close, don’t lend money carelessly.”

“I’ll definitely remember.”

“Don’t even cry because you miss me.”

Ah…… don’t want to part with Dale.

But I have no choice but to go to the Duke’s, and I’m barely able to keep from falling.

“Your Majesty, the magic circle for the portal is complete.”

“Let’s go.”

She was completely unaware of what was going on in the background.

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계약 남편이 남자 주인공과 닮았다
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koco2018
koco2018
Apr 14, 2024
Status: c48
When ML finds MC he accompanies MC without trying to drag her back to the throne, which is MUCH more entertaining than other methods. Chapter 48 and we still haven't been brought to the throne, MC stole was rewarded with an herb garden for saving an Earl so she's planting that and ML secretly commutes from their home to the palace using magic scrolls. I'm surprised by how self-sufficient MC is since she manages to live well anywhere. I'm okay with never transitioning to the marriage arc since this is... more>> fun, leave this 'on the run' for 50~ more chapters before exploding ML's identity please!

While enjoying their 'contract marriage life' ML is steadily making plans, he really likes MC so he slowly prods her to find out why she avoids the emperor, her answers made this man fall to the ground lol. He also made adjustments to make the Empress position more desirable using MC's feedback to fix what MC hates about the position. His actions are honestly adorable and the current emperor is far from the original obsessive villain, MC also reincarnated as a child so that has an impact too. He still gets jealous and plays matchmaker with the men 'too' close to MC tho... but I'll let it slide since he isn't ruining their lives, just redirecting them away to another woman. Overall, the Empire's opinion of him is a great, efficient, and righteous man, who cuts corrupt nobles cruelly.

MC has an interesting character too. At first, I wondered how thick her plot armor would be, but after reading about 20 chapters I really like her. Despite how dumb she seemed in the beginning, the author gives her enough intelligence to be interesting and she is surprisingly utilizing her knowledge of the novel's plot very well. The way she plots against the emperor 'loyally' is hilarious, especially since 'that' emperor is listening to her boast with a sort-of angry but also crying expression hahaha.

Oh I'll leave a spoiler containing that scene, there are many more scenes haha.

Spoiler

"If the empire's only two ducal houses and the Emperor joined hands, they could easily find me. So why haven't they found me yet?"

Dale began to ponder seriously.

He tapped the table with his hand as if trying to figure out the answer.

"It's overwork."

"... ?"

"The Emperor is too overwhelmed with work."

For a moment, Dale's eyes widened.

He looked at me, bewildered.

"Overwork... "

Dale's voice trailed off.

"I don't quite understand."

"Why do you think the Emperor is busy?"

"Because he must rectify the empire, which remains in chaos and disarray due to the sins of the previous emperor."

"Right. There are many places that need attention."

"That's true."

"But how could these misdeeds keep being uncovered?"

Dale squinted his eyes, looking at me.

He seemed not to fully grasp my point.

"The atrocities committed by the old nobility are vast. It would take decades just to uncover all their deeds, given the size of the empire."

"...."

"Under normal circumstances."

Dale's eyes gradually widened.

"But the Imperial Court has been quickly finding and punishing their crimes."

"No way....."

"That's right."

I proudly patted my chest.

"I kept prodding the Imperial Court."

"... !"

The Emperor must not rest even a bit.

Absolutely.

*****

"It's tax collection season at the Imperial Court now, so it must be busy... Ah! But there should be some breathing room before the knightly order's winter training, so it's time to insert more tasks."

I pulled out a notepad with a smile.

"Thank you! Now that I think of it, I should write it down in advance."

Thump.

A large hand covered the notepad.

Without realizing it, I scratched Dale's hand with my pen.

"Dale! Are you okay? Clean it quickly."

I vigorously wiped his hand with a wet handkerchief.

"The ink won't come off easily. Does it sting? What should we do?"

"I see... "

Dale's sigh filled the room.

"It was you all along."

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CE-NEX
CE-NEX
Feb 06, 2024
Status: c11
Spoiler

“I’ll make a request. Let’s start with a basic salary of one million crobats.”

“One million crobats?”

He looked more surprised at the unexpectedly large amount, his eyes widening further.

“The amount should give you an idea; it’s not an ordinary request. Normally, about 100, 000 crobats were the annual living expenses for an average family of four.”

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She basically has enough savings to live comfortably by herself for decades far away from the Emperor, and instead decides to give it all to some random guy she's known for less than a week in exchange for a contract marriage. Actual brainless MC.
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nightsongws
nightsongws
Dec 02, 2024
Status: c42
PSA: The Citrus Aurora translation is EXCELLENT but they're doing half-chapters and they're not labeled as such. I'm up to chapter 84 on CA but had to switch to chapter 42 on Kakaopage to keep reading the story.

So far, this is a cute, fluffy story!! Don't go into it expecting one of the next magnificent works of fiction and you'll be fine. There's no artificially manufactured misunderstandings or angst for the sake of angst. You find out in the first chapters that Dale is actually the emperor and keeping Enya... more>> in the dark is a long, running second plotline between him and his aides in the palace. I didn't expect that at all but I kinda love it now. Hahahaha.

As another reviewer mentioned, our MC isn't the paragon of street smarts or a master strategist, but she does squeeze everything out of what she's got. Her great plan to stay out of the emperor's eyes was to milk every possible crime and seed of corruption out of the original novel she transmigrated into and parcel where to find evidence of those crimes slowly over time to the authorities in the palace. Her aim is to keep the emperor so busy that he has no time to look for her and it WORKS! For three years, anyway. He's in a massively overworked and exhausted state by the time he finds her. (It hasn't told us how he found her, though, yet.) She happily bubbles about this to her faithful contract husband (the aforementioned, exhausted emperor) and his reaction was *chef's kiss*.

The emperor has two very good reasons for wanting her as a wife, though. Aside from him being -completely- smitten with her.

Spoiler

There's hints that they met as children, and there was some accident, and she forgot about him.

Also, he's dying and he needs her transmigrator buff abilities to help save him. Her ability to smell what ailment someone has (the translation says diseases but she can also smell if someone is poisoned) awoke at the same time as her memories of her past life.

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We've just run into another main actor and a plotline with someone impersonating Enya, so I'm heading over to Kakaopage to read the rest. <<less
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nOT7wu
nOT7wu
Oct 05, 2024
Status: c13
Thirteen chapters in and we barely have a hint of personality from the FL and ML and we're just starting a plot arc as of c13.

Translation-wise: the formatting makes it difficult to discern when the FL is partaking of inner dialogue and actually speaking.

Writing-wise: everything feels juvenile and wattpad-ish. I need more brain stimulation and have no high hopes for this one. Just not my cup of tea. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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