Married Again: Life with the Rugged Man Next Door

Original title: My Scumbag Husband Is Filthy, While I Sneak Away for Passionate Nights with a Rough Man Ruan Tao catches a rugged man bathing and can’t help comparing him to her own scholar husband. That waist, those legs, everything about him is different! She is about to sneak away when someone grabs her by the collar and lifts her right off the ground. Zhou Li coldly tosses her to the scholar. “Keep your wife in line. Peeking at someone bathing is completely improper!” She is beaten with a cane, thrashed by her husband, cursed by her mother-in-law, and egged on by her sister-in-law. Beaten half to death and covered in wounds, she is thrown into the woodshed, where she grows to hate Zhou Li. “Zhou Li, you cheapskate! Looking doesn’t make you lose a piece of flesh! I got beaten because of you. I’ll remember this for the rest of my life!” From then on, Ruan Tao becomes a firebrand. Whenever she sees him, she talks back and goes out of her way to oppose him. Until one day, Ruan Tao climbs a peach tree at Zhou Li’s house to pick some juicy peaches. Her foot slips, and she falls straight into his arms. Zhou Li holds her fast, his voice hoarse. “You stole peaches from my tree. You’ll have to be punished.” “What are you going to do? Tell on me so my husband can beat me again? Zhou Li, you’re awful.” “This time, I won’t tell on you.” He lowers his head, his breath hot against her. “I’ll just punish you by making you come eat peaches every day for the rest of your life!” During years of war and famine, Zhou Li makes sure Ruan Tao never goes hungry and even gives her food to help her family. Only after remarrying does Ruan Tao realize that men really can be worlds apart, and finally learn what it feels like to be cherished by one. It’s so sweet! The heroine is gentle on the outside but strong on the inside. She always gets even and acts decisively.