[1980s setting + substitute marriage + military romance + sweet romance + devoted couple + everyday marital affection]
The moment college student Qiao Shuang opens her eyes, she has transmigrated into a mute cannon-fodder character with the same name in a novel set in a bygone era.
The original girl is thin and disabled, starved down to skin and bones, and now her own mother and sister are forcing her into a marriage.
“Lu Xianye is a soldier, so his allowance is steady. You couldn’t find a better man even with a lantern. Your sister is a college student, unlike you. Forget about him.”
Qiao Shuang is so angry and hungry that she faints. When she opens her eyes again, she finds herself sprawled in the arms of a handsome man.
The man asks hoarsely, “Who sent you to spy on me?”
Qiao Shuang points to her mouth.
She isn’t a spy. She’s just hungry.
Night after night, Lu Xianye dreams of a secret no one else knows.
He has taken in a little mute girl.
She’s thin, can’t speak, and is always saying she’s hungry. She never gets enough to eat. Lu Xianye feeds her the best food and takes good care of her, even coaxing the little mute into becoming his wife.
But before long, he finds out his family has already arranged for him to marry a college student.
The elders arranged the match when they were children. He used to think it made no difference whom he married, but after meeting the little mute, he changed his mind.
He meant to find a chance to refuse the match, but who could have guessed that the little mute would show up at his military camp with a bundle of belongings, carrying a letter of introduction and claiming to be his “wife”?
Lu Xianye is both shocked and overjoyed, wishing he could pull her into his very bones.
After they marry, he plumps up his little wife until she’s rosy and round, but she starts looking for a chance to run away.
Furious, Lu Xianye pins Qiao Shuang in a corner. “You ungrateful little thing. You eat your fill and then run off? Isn’t that a bit shameless?”
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