One Night of Passion

Before the wedding.

She said, "Rude, uncultured, and you throw women around. No wonder a man like you would abduct a woman by force."

He curled his lips into a smirk, his gaze sweeping over her as his eyes darkened. "Childish, flat-chested, always getting into trouble. You can hardly even be called a woman. I’m the only one willing to take you in."

She sneered. "No need. I’ll find a man willing to take me in myself."

He hoisted her over his shoulder. "If I don’t go to hell, who will?"

After the wedding.

"What are the Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention?" The colonel watched his wife come home late. When he saw her face, flushed from drinking, his eyes darkened.

"Uh..." The woman was so drunk she wouldn’t have recognized her own father. How could she recite the Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention?

"Looks like yesterday’s lesson didn’t sink in. We’ll continue today." The colonel slung the drunken woman over his shoulder and taught her through action what the Three Main Rules of Discipline and the Eight Points for Attention meant.

Not long afterward, a woman’s muffled cries came from the room...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.