Eighties Metaphysics Master, Entangled with a Demobilized War Hero

[Marriage first, love later #two strong leads flirting with each other #metaphysical face-slapping satisfaction #rags-to-riches story set in a bygone era #all-consuming devotion and possessiveness #he’s incredibly good at spoiling her] (bygone era + metaphysics + elite soldier + sweet romance + wish fulfillment + marriage first, love later + strong heroine + spatial dimension)

From the start, she was drugged and spent a night with him in a ruined temple, their bodies entwined in a feverish embrace.

When she woke, she ran off with his token in hand. With a pocket dimension containing a magical spring, she used fortune-telling and black-market trading to become a secret millionaire.

The cold-faced elite soldier who had vanished after sleeping with her watched her like a wolf eyeing its prey, cornering her against the wall again and again:

“Su Wantang, you used my ‘medicine.’ Aren’t you going to pay the doctor’s fee?”

“Running from me? Everything within fifty kilometers is my reconnaissance range.”

She dealt with the most obnoxious people, while he quietly cleared the way.

She made a fortune, while he became her ultimate bodyguard and supplier.

She thought theirs was an unspoken arrangement based on physical intimacy, until he was gravely wounded and clung to her hand as he lay dying.

Only then did she realize that this man had long since carved her into his very bones, spoiling her without restraint.

Later, at a banquet in the capital, everyone mocked her village-girl background and said she wasn’t worthy of the Li family’s heir.

But he knelt on one knee before everyone, putting custom-made high heels on her feet. Looking up at her with blazing eyes, he said:

“The greatest military achievement of my life, Li Zhanye, is spoiling her so much that she can’t take a single step without me.”

“I’ll carry you. For the rest of our lives.”