The Seventies: The Spicy Wife Takes Charge

Fiery heroine | Reserved, secretly passionate hero | Married first, love later | Feel-good period romance | Family and village life

“On my first day marrying into the family of peacemakers, I managed to offend the whole village.”

“She picks the fights, he makes the plans. This family can’t help but thrive.”

Lin Mai was forced by her own father to marry a young intellectual sent down to the countryside.

In front of everyone, she grabbed the man watching the commotion beside her. “I like him!”

The man was Shen Huai, the village chief’s third son and the county’s youngest up-and-coming official. He rarely spoke, had a cold expression, and was impossible to read.

The whole village said a fiery woman and a taciturn man would never make it work.

But then

On Lin Mai’s first day in the family, the peacemakers all found their backbone.

The village bully who’d stolen vegetables sheepishly paid compensation.

The gossiping women went out of their way to avoid her.

Lin Mai thought her fiery temper could take on the world. Only later did she realize that the problems she’d faced before she even had a chance to act had all been quietly handled by the man beside her in bed.

She cornered him against the wall in the middle of the night. “Shen Huai, have you had your eye on me all along?”

He still said nothing, but the tips of his ears turned bright red.