The General Wants to Hug and Sleep

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A story about a general with insomnia, and a girl who is looking for husband to keep her tea house.

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ท่านแม่ทัพต้องกอดแล้วจึงจะหลับ
将军抱抱要睡觉
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  5. A bit of romance

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32 Reviews


makenai89
makenai89
May 17, 2016
Status: epilogue
The General Wants to Hug and Sleep told the story of a powerful general who couldn't sleep and a tea house inheritor who was looking for a "husband". It started off like a romcom where the female MC was bullied by her family and subsequently decided to disguise herself as lowborn maid in a plan to throw those bullies off her back. However, she entered the wrong house and met someone she initially thought as ordinary soldier (though we readers know he wasn't!).

After plenty of funny and fluffy moments,... more>> we were introduced to a twist where the story turned into a rather mysterious and full of suspense situation... which then brought us to a tearful climax.
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Don't worry though, it's happy ending here.

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Needless to say, the novel's ups-and-downs made it into a great read for romance/drama/josei fans. However, it's not without its downside. Although the plot concept was good, but the narrative and pacing was a bit lacking (or is it because of the translation? I'm not sure since I can't read Chinese). Consequently, many turns of events were somehow abrupt and it felt forced at some points. It's still a nice read nonetheless. <<less
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Kittybear
Kittybear
Oct 28, 2016
Status: epilogue
A wonderful story albeit a slightly melancholic ending. However, that bitterness at the end made the sweetness all the better.

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The story is about a girl who is pretty average, but she owns the most famous tea shop in the country. Her family members try to forcefully take it as their own when there was no man to take ownership of the shop. To solve the problem, she goes looking for someone to marry into her family, but someone with good looks and a good head.

P.S. Usually it is the woman to marry into the man's house, gaining rights in the man's family as the wife, however it is slightly uncommon for a man to marry into the woman's house because although he will be the house head, he will be seen as "owned by the woman" and be mocked by others. So you can see her predicament.

She gives up her search on the streets when there are no results and schemes to become a servant in a lower noble's house and get herself pregnant with the noble's child so she can force him to marry. She didn't know that she was actually being recruited for the poor general that had a severe case of insomnia as a body pillow. Literally, he was going to hug her as he went to sleep in their first meeting.

They keep on going with this routine, with the girl still oblivious that the man she's being hugged by is the head of the house, the great general, and the guy slowly falling in love with her without realizing it's love. (because he's THAT character. He's on the gentler side of the spectrum though so it's okay) Eventually, she finds out he's the general, he finds out he's actually in love with her, and the people in the kingdom find out that the "cold hearted, handsome general actually favors a girl for the first time. Bring in the jealous princess that has some serious issue with arrogance and ego that just so happens to love the general... GREAT *with sarcasm*

She gets super jealous of the girl and poisons her. General finds out she's poisoned and demands the bit*h princess to give the antidote. Turns out, there's no antidote. The only way to save the girl is to do the "dirty deed" with her while using the inner qi to draw the poison into one's self. The princess of course thought that the general would NEVER do that, just like every other b*tchy girl that has that much arrogance in these stories, and tells him directly.

Surprise, surprise, the general actually does it. *heaviest sarcasm* He keeps it a secret from her for a while, but it gets found out. She cries, but then the super expert comes out to help and tells her a way to save the guy and herself. She apparently got pregnant from the poison removal from before and if she shares the poison between the three of them, they can all live sickly lives together. Of course, you know she does it.
Really a sweet story, I highly recommend it.

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If you want a little treat to get you interested, take like 2 minutes to read the epilogue and you will fall in love. <<less
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hjquinzel
hjquinzel
Oct 13, 2019
Status: c22.3
I really wanted to enjoy this, but...

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The male MC completely disregard the female MC's body autonomy, even going so far as to rip off her clothes and try and r*pe her.

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and then when...

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she's poisoned, he r*pes the unconscious her as the author made it so that is the only way to cure her of her poison, and then she gets pregnant without her knowledge and only find out months later.

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Non-consent is NOT romantic. The author of this seems to enjoy putting the female in awful situations where the man she loves can take advantage. <<less
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Nocta
Nocta
May 30, 2019
Status: epilogue
Sorry, but I didn't enjoy this story at all. I don't like to leave negative reviews but seeing all these positive ones make me want to even this comment section a bit.
It is a light-read story. Nothing less, and certainly nothing more. The characters are shallow, with no personality, the FC is s*upid (not naive or pure, just plain s*upid) the plot is poor and the romance is uninteresting.

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Why did the male lead fell in love? Because she smells nice, her tea is good, he likes hugging her to sleep. And that's what he feels just after one evening worth of discussion, after sleeping together once (just sleeping).
Why did the FL fell in love with him? Because he is good looking. That's all, no deeper reason, no time spent together, no gradual romance, just a shallow plot convenience.

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There are also many grammar mistakes that made reading uncomfortable. I'm aware translating takes a lot of time, so I don't like to criticize the hard work of someone else, but still, I don't recommend reading this story. <<less
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Novelana
Novelana
Jun 20, 2018
Status: Completed
I will give this novel a 4.5 stars.. The story is good actually and it has a very good plot too. The beginning of the story is so adorable but near the ending (maybe chapters 21-22) it actually have a very touching feeling. Although the ending (last chapter of 22) have not given me a satisfying ending but considering it has an epilogue to compensate me so I guess it will just do and a warning to the ones who minds grammar so much even though the translation is not... more>> that very good (even though it has been edited) but at least you can understand it and the translator did her best to translate it so just be grateful. Thanks you for this novel translator! And.... Special thanks to the author too! That's it for now, Bye! <<less
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Alexei
Alexei
Apr 29, 2020
Status: epilogue
I read this because there were many good reviews but honestly the story is kinda meh. It was all fluffy at first but then when they got to
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the last arc is an anticlimax. I never thought that I would wish for their death. Anyway wtf is wrong with the antidote. So messed up. Who would want to fck someone who's on the verge of death. Smh

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I appreciate the translator effort to translate the story but it can be improved for the better in the future.
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mielru
mielru
Aug 19, 2019
Status: Completed
The story is short and light, predictable ending but full of sweetness. I enjoy it very much for light reading.
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Anonymousse
Anonymousse
Jan 15, 2018
Status: c1
Start with decent and sweet plot. but FL is too naive. Whats wrong with some guardian that follows her everywhere? The general only wanna make sure her safety. Yet, FL naively though bout herself by quietly sneaking alone outside and in the end bringing misfortune for both of them. well... at least its not end in tragedy. although it can be avoid if FL use her brain for once and stop become egoistical.
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Nana (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
nhanat
Dec 10, 2015
Status: --
after finishing the series you can get fluffy some sort of warm feeling..
Definitely recommended for short romance story
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Lachiel
Lachiel
Oct 20, 2015
Status: --
A cute little romance novel about a general who can't seem to fall asleep.. There are moments of suspense and others of fluffy cuteness..

I do recommend this for people who want to read about how two people with different positions in life and different ideas on things meet and fall in love.
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Anna_Tiashe
Anna_Tiashe
Apr 19, 2023
Status: Completed
It was such a wholesome read for me. It's charm is the unusual pairing of the main characters (well, in an ancient setting, especially for the leads) that they made the story more interesting. You may never find such stories being created, unless you can read Chinese. But, there was a flaw, it was the poor use of language. Since, I wanted to know how it progress, I could ignore those mistakes for a while. Thank you for the wonderful story author and your efforts too, translator.
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Beccablue
Beccablue
Jun 30, 2019
Status: Completed
I really liked this story. It is super cute and fluffy.

The only problem is the translation. It is not very good. They have tried and I appreciate it. Because I would not be able to read this story if not for them. But the sentence structure, grammar and just the general flow are difficult. I wonder if it might have actually been machine translated....

I just adore the General so much.
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earlgreyt
earlgreyt
Feb 06, 2019
Status: Completed
Cute and short light read. The main character, an excellent tea connoisseur and ordinary girl, sneaks into the insomniac General's household as a maid in order to keep her tea house business away from grubby family members.

Mostly fluffy and humorous, there is a bit of angst at the end (which was probably necessary, or else the story would have had even less impact), but it's a happy ending. Translation is ok if you're familiar with C-novels/Chinese or MTL.
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TheDaoistNextDoor
TheDaoistNex
Apr 12, 2018
Status: Completed
I WAS TOO IMPETUOUS! This is max a 3.5 star story. That ending makes me want to reject it.
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So I'm going to start with the bad parts of this story:

  1. That tag for, "possessive characters"? NOT FOR SHOW. Thankfully, the FL sorts him out and he starts to 'human' again, but still, it did put me off for a good minute...
  2. Naïveté of the FL. First off, let me tell you- that characteristic is hella cute on her. Just that there are times when you're just like, please, at least think about it for a second. But it's not the worst. Definitely not reason enough to avoid the story- cause it is a minute details that gets dealt with.
  3. That ending. The last chapter before the epilogue makes me want to toss the book!
  4. TOO DARN SHORT! I want more. So much more! Then that pen-ultimate chapter wouldn't be the end!!!

The real redeeming factor of this story is their interactions. That's about it really. But it's a big something so it makes it worth it.

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Otwentyfirst
Otwentyfirst
Feb 01, 2018
Status: c1
The romance is nice enough but the action sequence of events and change of scenes weren't very good. -For example MCs were already lying in bed then suddenly the next sentence had them going back to the bed.- They never left it to begin with you know. Either that or the translation missed something. -Or in another scene they're lying in bed then suddenly the male MC put his tea cup down on the table.- It was like the guy teleported... where did the tea cup even come from? Other... more>> things too like the fighting scene... They we're really bad

I would say it's just a good fluff filler if you have nothing else to read. <<less
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linnil
linnil
Dec 05, 2015
Status: --
When I read this, it like I am reading shoujo manga.

Naive simple and cute.

And the male lead must be super OP with a cute weakness.

With ordinary face female lead.

But it's a short novel anyways, it should not have any complicated plot only adult can get it like I want to read normally.
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Tang Ning777
Tang Ning777
Sep 10, 2023
Status: Completed
Xiao Zhi and Chu Zhu Yu were so cute together. The story is just as the name suggests. Our great general, Xion Zhi, is the great general with high martial arts. He is naive, cute and weird and obsessed with Chu Zhu Yu. Their romance may have started with him only being able to sleep while hugging her but it grew into so much more. I read this a long time ago that I even forgot the plotline so it felt like reading for the first time again.

Enjoyed it very... more>> much! <<less
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CKJnovelFANatic
CKJnovelFANa
Jun 15, 2023
Status: Completed
I think the reviewers who hated this story for supposed non-con have misunderstood it.... more>>
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The chapter titled “Rapist” is really not and a very tense scene that was potentially r*pe-y also was not. And the chapter where something DID finally happen was for “magically necessary” reasons.

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Also it’s important to remember that in Ancient China stories servants were considered property of the master and could be used as they liked. This story fluffs over that concept a bit but since it’s such a short story a reader really shouldn’t expect much depth.

Overall it’s a sweet story about a greatly feared and bloody general who believed he’d never find true love and a naive but not s*upid girl who knows what she wants (and doesn’t want).

I gave 4 stars out of 5 mainly because the translation is not easy to read. But I give great credit to the efforts of a Translator who is obviously not a native English speaker. <<less
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chande
chande
Dec 02, 2021
Status: Completed
I initially really enjoy this story so much. MC was adorable and ML was kinda cute in his lovey dovey mode. Their reason to fall in love was quite simple but it's still quite realistic because sometimes we didn't need too many reason to fall in love with someone.

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ML loved MC because he was comfortable around her. At the start, he simply treat her as a treasure because she could help him falling asleep but later he started to want more.

MC simply loved ML because she used to ML's presence. At the start, she resisted ML's attempt to use her to fall asleep because she wanted to protect her reputation but then she pitied him after she knew the real reason why he needed her to fall asleep. Like ML, she also started to want more after spending several times together with ML.

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The reason I write "initially" in the beginning of my review is because of MC. At the start, I really have a favorable impression towards her but in the last few chapters, I started to dislike her.

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Several days after she was abducted by the third prince, MC recklessly went to the new tea house alone, resulting her gotten poisoned (because that tea house was a trap from the tenth princess). Really, MC? Did you already forget how third prince abduct you before? And it's not like ML really forbade her to go out; he just asked his subordinates to follow her for her own safety. MC also knew that ML did that out of worry but she still yearned for freedom (she should know that her freedom was practically lost after being together with ML because she was his weakness so many people would try to use her to harm ML).

And after she was poisoned, ML sacrificed himself to detoxify MC's poison by absorbing it into his own body. Then after she knew about it, MC desperately tried to save him but in order to do that, she had to share the poison with her unborn child. In the end, ML and her unborn child had to pay the price for her recklessness forever.

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NotYourBaee
NotYourBaee
Mar 03, 2021
Status: Completed
Edit: I gave this story 5 Stars but for some reason its shoeing just 1 ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

The people here leaving reviews are insane.

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The time when he supposedly 'raped' her was because he had to save her and that was ACTUALLY the ONLY way.

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I mean puh-lease,
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its a good story with fluff and a kind of yandere ml.

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If you like those kind of stories, RECOMMENDED!

And its just 23 chapters anyway, read it and decide it for yourself....

The reviews can be misleading many times, even the good ones... <<less
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