[Historical transmigration + One-Eyed Obsessive Hero + Technically Skilled Heroine + Eye-Gouging Romance + Mutual Redemption]
Lin Xizhao, an optical engineer, transmigrates into the body of a disfigured country girl buried in debt.
Her original body had once saved the male lead's life, but the heroine doesn't know that. For her sake, he gouged out his own left eye with his bare hands in a dungeon.
After transmigrating, she knows no one and wants only to make money, build a career, and, while she's at it, get her face fixed.
“What? A one-eyed man says he's been looking for me for a year?”
Lin Xizhao takes a step back. “Who are you?”
First things first: treat his eye. She brings out a convex lens and shines therapeutic light into his right eye every day.
The first time Pei Jinchuan sees her face clearly, he stares for a long while. “You're beautiful.”
She rolls her eyes. “You're a devastatingly handsome demon yourself. What gives you the right to compliment someone else?”
Next, naturally, she makes money. She improves looms, invents fireproof fabric, and opens cloth shops, expanding all the way to the capital.
Pei Jinchuan leads his troops back to the capital and beheads his enemy with a single stroke. “I stayed alive just to watch you die.”
She thought that once she healed his eye, they could go their separate ways. She never expected the man to refuse to leave.
He corners her against the wall, his voice low and hoarse. “I'm holding back.”
“Holding back what?”
“Holding back from locking you up at my side.”
On their wedding night, he removes his obsidian prosthetic eye. “Will you think I'm ugly?”
She touches his eye socket and smiles. “Ugly? Don't be ridiculous. You're the most beautiful demon of all.”
He lowers his head and kisses her. “Then this demon is yours.”
Pei Jinchuan: “My one wish in life was to find her. Now I have another: may she know peace and happiness every year, and live a long, joyful life.”
