Separate Bedrooms in Our Military Marriage: The Roughneck Officer Cries in the Middle of the Night

Qi Wanshuang had a cool, ethereal beauty, but her vicious stepmother tried to force her to marry an old widower who had beaten two wives to death.

To survive, she steeled herself and went alone to the northern military compound, where she confronted Lu Xingye, the “Living Yama” rumored to be so violent that his enemies trembled at the sound of his name.

“Colonel Lu, you need a nanny to look after your children, and I need a marriage certificate. How about we make do with each other?”

Looking into her stubborn, tear-filled, almond-shaped eyes, Lu Xingye, who had long abstained from women, found himself nodding almost against his will.

[The compound gossip]

Everyone waited to see the joke: he was a tough man with two little “demons” in tow. Surely this delicate young wife would run away within three days!

[Married life]

But after Qi Wanshuang moved in, delicious food filled the house, her clothes were a riot of styles, and the two unruly little boys became well-behaved children who clung to their stepmother all day long.

And what about the aloof Colonel Lu?

Late at night, the man stared at their separate-bedroom agreement and listened to her soft singing as she soothed the children next door. His Adam’s apple bobbed, his eyes reddened, and he blocked her doorway. “Wanshuang, there’s thunder tonight. The kids are scared… and so am I.”

Qi Wanshuang: ?