Zhou Lan was a minor actress with only a handful of fans. While filming a scene on wires, an accident sent her soul into the body of Zhou Chunlan, a woman from Apricot Blossom Village in the Kingdom of Nanzhao.
The original owner was lazy and terribly overweight, the butt of the village's gossip and jokes.
On the day she transmigrated, her wicked grandmother tried to sell her into a ghost marriage for eight taels of silver. She wasn't having it, and managed to talk and trick her way out of trouble.
But then her grandmother made another decision on her behalf: for fifteen taels in bride-price, she arranged a marriage to a mute more than ten years older than the original owner.
Rather than keep living with the Zhou family, she decided she might as well marry a mute. After much thought, she agreed.
Once married, she laid down three rules. She would take care of her mute husband's clothes, food, lodging, and travel, but she would never fulfill her marital duties.
To her surprise, the mute agreed. But on the day they returned to her family home, he spoke and even gave her two taels of silver.
So he wasn't mute after all...
She later learned that the mute was called Jing Mo. He wasn't greasy-looking, his features were refined, and once he shaved his beard, Zhou Chunlan felt she'd struck gold...
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
