The Roughneck's Tender Devotion

Her husband went away to work years ago and disappeared. The whole village said he’d been swept away in a flash flood and was long dead. Su Ruan spent three lonely years alone, tending her meager fields. Jiang Lin, the first love she’d lost in her youth, had become a weather-beaten, rugged man in the village. He quietly protected and cherished her, and his ardent, blunt affection shattered the softness frozen deep in her heart for years. The two overcame the gossip and got together. Just when they thought their hardships were behind them, the husband who had vanished three years ago returned safe and sound. On one side was her lawful husband, reunited with her after a long separation, to whom she owed the title of wife. On the other was the rugged man she loved, who gave her his whole heart and stayed by her side day and night. Su Ruan was caught in a tangled struggle of love and resentment she couldn’t escape…