Cuddling Up to a Tough Guy with a Baby, I Play the Medium in the Compound

[Period setting + military marriage + faux mysticism (psychology) + raising kids + face-slapping + sweet romance]

Shen Qingqiu transmigrates to the 1970s and becomes a timid woman living in a cowshed, with a dead husband (not really) and a cruel mother-in-law.

Seeing the fierce but adorable kids so hungry they're chewing on their fingers, she tearfully picks up the original owner's ancestral craft: making paper effigies. She used to be a top criminal psychology expert.

“Is mysticism where science ends? No, it's psychological warfare!”

Her wicked mother-in-law comes to steal her food? She makes a paper effigy and hangs it from a beam. A faint green glow flickers in the middle of the night, scaring the whole family so badly they wet themselves.

A toxic neighbor comes looking for trouble? She scans their microexpressions. “Your forehead is dark. You'll suffer a bloody disaster soon. (Actually, you just slipped on your own shoe.)”

By day, she's a frail little wife. By night, she's the “living King of Hell,” passing judgment on the dead and the living.

Just as she's scared the whole village out of its wits and is preparing to leave with the kids and remarry, the tough military commander Lu Ye, supposedly “killed in action,” returns.

In the dead of night, Lu Ye sees the paper effigies around the room blinking at him. He pins his wife, who's trying to play the ghost, onto the kang, his eyes even more wolfish than the effigies'.

Shen Qingqiu trembles. “Don't come any closer. I'm bad luck for husbands!”

Lu Ye unfastens his uniform collar, his Adam's apple bobbing. “I'm tough enough to survive anything. Besides, I could use a female ghost to suck out my yang energy. Come on, make your paper effigies. Stick one right here!”

The whole compound is in despair. “Commander Lu, please keep your wife in check! The paper horse she made last night ran around the compound all night!”

(Note: This novel has no supernatural elements, just faux science and real flirting!)

A new story is here! Come read my work on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well!