An Eighties Bride Swap: The Rough Man's Sweet, Delicate Tailor Wife Weeps Every Night

Synopsis:

Fashion designer Wen Nian transmigrates into the 1980s as a castoff, forced by her wicked stepmother to take her older sister's place in an arranged marriage. Her groom is Lu Xiao, a blacksmith rumored to be brutal and disabled. On their wedding night, the red candles flicker as the man tears off his sweat-soaked homespun undershirt, revealing a powerful six-pack crisscrossed with knife scars. His scorching gaze nearly burns through her. “Think I'm too rough? Too late. You're going to have to put up with me tonight.” The whole village expects delicate Wen Nian to be tormented to death. Instead, with her skill in three-dimensional tailoring, she starts selling bell-bottoms from a street stall, soon racking up orders and making a fortune until she becomes the era's richest woman. The rugged man, as hard as iron by day, pins her in the corner of their scorching earthen bed at night. His hands, calloused from the forge, clasp her slender waist as he breathes heavily like a beast. “Tell me, do your clothes look better, or do I?” When her stepmother and elder sister come back, red-eyed, to settle scores and seize her property, they find Lu Xiao, the ironworks magnate feared by both the underworld and the authorities, kneeling beside the bed and gently rubbing the sore ankle of his tearful little bride. His voice is hoarse and tender. “If you cry again, are we still taking your measurements tonight?”

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