The Vegetable-Growing Bride Enters the Marquis's Household

Everyone in the capital says the Second Young Master of the Loyal and Brave Marquis’s Estate must be mad to marry a vegetable seller.

Shen Muan thinks he must be mad, too.

On a rainy day, he returns an umbrella to a girl crouched by her vegetable stall, sorting through her produce. He means to turn and leave, but somehow finds himself crouching beside her, watching as she picks off wilted leaves one by one.

And he keeps watching for the rest of his life.

A Heng is slow-witted and quiet, but she remembers what he likes to eat, that he needs to bundle up when he sneezes, and that he should drink mint water when he coughs.

Shen Muan is frail and restless, but he learns to till the soil, brew medicine, and get up in the middle of the night to massage her back.

Others laugh at their ridiculous marriage, but beneath the cucumber trellis, the two of them make a poem of their unhurried days together.

That umbrella opened in the spring rain did more than bring two people together. It gave two “imperfect” people a happiness that fit them just right.