Her Scumbag Husband Brings Home His First Love, So She Marries a Grumpy, Rugged Man Instead

Rugged country boy and pampered wife + rural life + Marriage Before Love + resilient, sweet heroine + building a fortune + hero with a secret identity After her college-student childhood sweetheart rejects her as a country bumpkin and breaks off their engagement, Shen Xiangxiang slips and falls into a river. Qin Lie, the roughest and wildest man in the village, pulls her out and carries her home. Qin Lie stands well over six feet tall, his muscles straining against his clothes. His face is as cold as ice in the dead of winter. Shen Xiangxiang always feels that one glance from him is enough to make her knees go weak. Later, Shen Xiangxiang marries Qin Lie. Everyone in the village says, “With a build like Qin Lie’s, he could kill a wild boar with one punch. Beating his wife would be a piece of cake. She won’t last three months after marrying him.” Shen Xiangxiang thinks so too. On their wedding night, she huddles in the corner of the kang, trembling like a leaf. Qin Lie merely glances at her and doesn’t touch her. Later, she casually mentions that the well water is cold, and before long there’s a hand pump outside the door. She looks a little too long at a red hair ribbon in the supply store, and the next day it’s lying beside her pillow. When her period gives her cramps, he washes all her clothes, then warms his big hands and rests them on her belly. The whole village says she married a living devil. Only Shen Xiangxiang knows he treats her like a treasure. It’s just that once night falls, he changes. His eyes are as cold as ice during the day, but at night they burn hotter than fire as he watches her. He can spoil her rotten, or devour her whole. “Xiangxiang.” “Hmm?” “Don’t wear that floral blouse during the day anymore...” “Why not?” He says nothing, only pulls her tightly into his arms. Later, Shen Xiangxiang hears him murmur in her ear, “I can’t take it.”