My Childhood Sweetheart Thinks I'm Crude, So I Marry an Exiled Maid Instead

Rugged hunter + lucky single heroine + everyday family life + exile + court intrigue + rising to nobility

Hunter Huo Zhen has been married to his childhood sweetheart for five years. He is broad and powerfully built, and his wife is afraid of him, so she refuses to share his bed. He has kept his promise to endure it, holding back for five whole years. Then, by chance, he reaches over to tuck her in, and she stabs him with her hairpin, leaving him covered in blood.

The disgust in her eyes finally ignites the anger and hurt Huo Zhen has buried for five years. You can’t warm a stone or hold on to sand, so he decides to let go. After their divorce, a young maid sentenced to exile comes to his door and asks to marry him.

Ever since he marries the exiled maid, Huo Zhen seems to have luck on his side. Whether he’s hunting in the mountains, searching for ginseng, or selling goods at the black market, he makes money, and his family’s life grows more prosperous by the day.

Only later does he learn that the exiled maid isn’t a maid at all, but the legitimate daughter of a marquis’s household. After her family falls into ruin, Huo Zhen uses his martial prowess to help her cousin, the Second Prince, seize the throne. In the end, he is made a marquis and appointed to high office!

When his ex-wife sees how things have turned out, she regrets her choice and comes begging to reconcile.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.