Book Two by Zhehuayu

[1980s setting + military marriage + taking down scumbags + face-slapping + marriage first, love later + portable shop + male lead plays the pig to eat the tiger]

In her previous life, Yun Qiu married the village’s only college graduate. It looked glamorous on the surface, but in reality she worked like an ox to support her husband’s family.

She worked herself to the bone, thinking that once her husband made something of himself, her hard days would finally be over. But he had long since been cheating on her, and her in-laws helped him keep it secret. Instead, she got her husband returning with his mistress, while his whole family forced her to give up her place as his wife.

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Given another life, Yun Qiu slaps the golden-boy college graduate and his family with one hand, then beats up her scumbag father and miserly mother with the other for trying to marry her off to an abusive man in exchange for bride price.

They all still think they can bleed her dry like they did in her previous life? Not a chance!

Go cool off somewhere else. I’m done serving you!

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To get her household registration papers out of her family’s hands, she chooses to marry a man who left the army after being injured. He is paralyzed from the waist down and, supposedly, impotent.

Everyone laughs at her for going crazy, choosing to stay with a cripple instead of marrying a college graduate. Her scumbag ex and his family are just waiting for her to regret it.

Who would have thought Yun Qiu not only wouldn’t regret it, but would turn around and ruin the scumbag’s future, getting him expelled from college and destroying his prospects?

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And with her care, her supposedly useless husband actually gets back on his feet, returns to the army, and becomes a commanding officer. Yun Qiu, too, becomes an official’s wife envied by everyone.

It’s just that her husband may have been pent up for years, since he couldn’t perform before, and now he demands her affection night after night...