Married for the Second Time to a Dominant, Rugged Man, the Darling Wife Is Spoiled Rotten

Alternate-History Period Setting / Rugged Hero / Six-Year Age Gap / Domestic Life / Food / Sweet Romance

Shen Xiulian transmigrates into the body of a village woman who has been married for three years and lives like a widow.

The original owner married into the Wang family, caring for her sickly mother-in-law and looking after her young siblings-in-law. She worked day and night, washing clothes, cooking, feeding pigs, cutting pigweed, tending crops, herding cattle, and taking on every chore in the household.

In return, her carpenter husband flirted with women in the county town and got one of them pregnant.

Half a month ago, Shen Xiulian fell into a well while fetching water and caught a terrible chill. She was sent to her parents’ home to recover. When she returned, her husband’s old flame showed up at their door with a pregnant belly, and he treated her with every tenderness.

Her mother-in-law and carpenter husband mocked Xiulian for failing to bear a child and kicked her out.

Sobbing, Xiulian ran into a reed marsh and jumped in, intent on ending it all.

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When she opened her eyes again, she found the rugged man next door bathing in the river.

Yue Zhiyuan’s face was sharply chiseled, his frame burly and radiating menace. A scar crossed his chest, and he made his living as a hunter.

With muscles bulging all over, he was a fearsome man the villagers dared not look in the eye, a force of nature no one wanted to provoke.

The windows of his room and Xiulian’s faced each other, and they saw each other in their rooms every day.

After rescuing Xiulian, Yue Zhiyuan’s gaze darkened. “He’s the one in the wrong! Make him go wash his mother-in-law’s feet in the county town.”

But Xiulian stared at his powerful chest, catching her breath. “You’re a bachelor, and I don’t have a man. How about we make a life together?”

“He’s got a lover, so you should get one too! Xiulian, how about tonight?” The man’s body was burning hot, as if he meant to set her alight and melt her on the spot.