Catching Cheaters in the Eighties: The Mind-Reading Doctor Marries a Rugged Man and Comes Out on Top

In early winter, Lu Nanxing goes to the grain bureau to deliver medicine, only to catch her fiancé and stepsister in a passionate embrace right in front of the crowd.

Faced with the scumbag’s panic and her stepsister’s fake concern, Lu Nanxing grabs her by the wrist.

Her Mind-Reading Healer ability activates in an instant!

(“Go ahead and cry! Song Wenyuan is going to be county magistrate someday, and I’m the one destined to be his official’s wife! You’re only fit to marry that sand-dredging river bandit and spend your whole life a widow!”)

Lu Nanxing sneers and slaps her hard. “A man that’s been soiled? Disgusting! This engagement is over!”

For the sake of a sky-high bride price, her wicked stepmother forces her onto a covered boat and sends her off to marry He Ye, the rough “River Tyrant” everyone in Linjiang Town fears.

The whole town waits to see the delicate young doctor get tortured to death.

But on their wedding night, in the drafty stilt house, the wild man rumored to kill without blinking wraps the steaming hand warmer in his only good sweater and carefully tucks it against her cold feet.

Their skin touches, and Lu Nanxing hears the humble yet ferocious roar in his heart:

(“Damn… I really want to gobble her up. No, she’s been through enough today. I can’t scare her. I’ll risk my life diving into the river for a few more boatloads of sand, and dig up mountains of gold and silver underwater, so she can live better than anyone else in town. No one’s going to look down on her!”)

Later, her reborn stepsister, convinced she has the perfect script, goes completely mad.

The “rich husband” she stole is an abusive man with a hidden ailment. He eventually lands in prison for embezzlement, while she herself falls ill and rots away on the street.

Meanwhile, the “short-lived river bandit” she cast aside with her own hands not only survives, but rides the tide of the times to become an industrial tycoon with a monopoly on inland waterway shipping!