“Secret marriage between unwilling friends with complicated past and strict no-touch rule.”
National Husband Bring Home
国民老公带回家
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Synopsis
Secret marriage between unwilling friends with complicated past and strict no-touch rule.
Lu Jin Nian and Qiao An Hao are a newly married couple—unfortunately, neither of them are willing participants. Now husband and wife, Qiao An Hao establishes a few ground rules: no one can know that they are married, their cohabitation is top-secret information, and under no circumstances is Lu Jin Nian permitted to touch her. As a result, their marriage remains strictly superficial. Behind their broken union, however, there is a long and complicated history. A chance encounter while seeking shelter from the rain led to the lives of Lu Jin Nian and Qiao An Hao getting intertwined. But as fate would have it, the date also marked the moment Qiao An Hao's sister fell madly in love with the stoic and mysterious Lu Jin Nian. With emotional stakes flying high, the years leading up to this marriage have been long and complicated—but never boring. And even now, despite their long-standing friendship, the newlyweds are no closer to understanding each other.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 14 sampled reviews
What 14 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.37 · split reception
5.3 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 2.8
↓ 0.21
Running avg · Apr 2017 → Dec 2025
- 8 “It’s a pity they didn’t invest more in this donghua. It was a decent donghua up until season 2, but from season 3 onward the animation became awful and they changed a lot of things in the story,...”
- 9 “The first season was really good with enjoyable romance elements told from the main character's perspective. However, the story becomes twisted and messed up in later seasons, becoming so upsetting...”
- 9 “This Chinese anime shattered my earlier belief that Chinese stories were inferior to Japanese ones; it's an outright masterpiece. You’ll need to juggle both the anime and the comic, though, since...”
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- Format 12 × 11′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 12m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2016 – Dec 2016
- Source Ona media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-12117 catalog
Produced by
- bilibili Producer
- Tencent Video Producer
- China Literature Limited Producer