I Really Didn't Mean to Become a Live-in Son-in-Law

As the city lights began to glow, night settled in with a hazy softness. A taxi pulled up in front of a small villa in the SN District of Qingshan. The rear door opened, and a tall, slender young man stepped out, his handsome features bearing a casual indifference.

A man in his fifties followed, speaking earnestly to the young man ahead: “Haoxuan, remember what I’ve told you. Even though your grandfather and Old Master Li arranged this engagement for you and his granddaughter over twenty years ago, times have changed. The Li family is wealthy and powerful—they won’t let their eldest granddaughter marry you so easily. Fortunately, there are no male heirs in the third generation, just two granddaughters. You still have a sliver of hope if you’re willing to marry into their family.”

“I—” He Haoxuan found himself at a loss for words.

He, who had made a name for himself as a mercenary king abroad—a man so formidable that the strong would say, “Better face the King of Hell than cross the War King”—had only just returned home after years away, and now his father, He Wei, was pushing him into marriage, insisting he become a son-in-law to the Li family?

“I know you’re reluctant now, but once you see the Li family’s eldest daughter, you’ll change your mind. She’s famous for her beauty in Qingshan. Still, I fear she’ll look down on you. Anyway, let’s just get this matter settled—if they want to break the engagement, let them. If the Li family hadn’t remembered old times and paid a hundred thousand for my surgery last year when I was gravely ill, you wouldn’t