Xia Chenghuan's 14th Book

Wen Ruanhe is a female teacher at a village primary school in the 1970s. Fair-skinned and voluptuous, with a naturally sweet fragrance, she only dares to hide herself beneath coarse clothes and live a quiet life.

Her wicked stepsister steals a fine marriage match, seduces her fiancé, then conspires with the whole family to sell Wen Ruanhe to an old bachelor in a neighboring village to pay off their debts.

Just when she has nowhere left to turn, she unexpectedly awakens the ability to read minds

Her stepsister’s thoughts: [Hahaha, that useless officer is covered in scars, poor, and vicious. If Wen Ruanhe marries him, she’ll either wait to die or be beaten to death! I’ll reap the rewards and marry a civil servant!]

Wen Ruanhe smiles faintly and agrees to take her stepsister’s place.

Everyone is waiting to laugh at her.

But who could have guessed

The retired officer everyone avoids stands tall and straight as a pine, his eyes cold as blades, his muscles showing beneath his uniform.

On their wedding night, her sweet fragrance fills his nostrils. The austere officer’s face is stony, but the tips of his ears quietly turn red.

His thoughts: [...Don’t come any closer. If you do, I won’t be able to control myself.]

Wen Ruanhe: ?

Later

The whole village discovers that Lu Linxiao, supposedly a terrifying brute, spends every day following his delicate wife around, bringing her sweet drinks, cracking walnuts for her, and carrying her to bed.

Wen Chunmei: Impossible! He’s supposed to beat her!

Lu Linxiao gives her a cold look, but his thoughts say: [Whoever dares lay a finger on her, I haven’t forgotten how to bury a body.]