Republican era + bride swap + married first, love later + sweet doting romance + a touch of supernatural suspense
A sweet, gentle 17-year-old girl × a roguish, handsome, earnest 24-year-old man. Seven-year age gap
The Cheng family had been coffin makers for three generations, but by the time Cheng Song came along, the family trade had fallen on hard times.
He was dirt poor, people avoided him, and even in his twenties he couldn't find a wife.
With his mother chronically ill, he asked a matchmaker to use an old marriage contract to arrange a match for him with the Wen family.
On that day, she took her cousin's place as the bride and was carried to the Wen family in an old coffin.
To outsiders, it was said to be a coffin meant to bring good luck and ward off misfortune for the groom!
Behind closed doors, it was an insult to both families, the most degrading humiliation imaginable!
Lying in the coffin, Su Ruan heard him pound on the lid. His voice was low and cold. “Are you doing this to humiliate me, or to humiliate your young lady?”
The marriage arrangement was settled. From then on, she was a dead woman to the Wen family, and at the Cheng home, her life or death was left to fate.
As soon as the coffin lid opened, she reached out and grabbed him tight.
“Either leave right now, or... come inside with me and serve tea to my mother!”
At first, she was just a marriage of convenience so he could fulfill his duty to his mother.
Later, she became the one weakness he'd risk his life to protect.
Everyone laughed at him as the simple-minded boy from the coffin shop, but when angered, his righteous presence could command an entire street.
They all said the young master had married a delicate lady, but she knew how to adapt, honored her mother-in-law, and cared for her husband. She wasn't delicate at all.
A vow before the coffin bound them for three lifetimes; a touch of bridal red brought them together for this one.
In this unjust world, he loved her to the core and doted on her without restraint.
