I'm Lou Xiao'e. I thought I was only going to the courtyard to go through the motions of a matchmaking meeting, but as soon as I sat down, I was surrounded by neighbors with their own hidden agendas. Xu Damao was standing in front of me, swaggering with an enamel mug in hand.
Suddenly, a rough voice grumbling in my head exclaimed, "How could the Lou family's young lady fall for that shoehorn face? I want to smash his head with a big ladle!" I looked up and saw He Yuzhu, the notorious no-good cook of the courtyard. The inner voice only I could hear was a protective, furious roar.
It turned out that all the people in this courtyard who seemed nice were scheming, while Silly Zhu, who looked fierce, was thinking only about how to cook me delicious dishes with fine flour. I flipped the matchmaking table on the spot and, under everyone's astonished gazes, dragged He Yuzhu straight to the marriage registry.
After we got married, I became the top director of the courtyard. Qin Huairu played the victim, Yi Zhonghai used morality to pressure us, and as I listened to Silly Zhu shout in his heart, "Wife, save me! I have to stay faithful!", I transformed into a fierce protector of my husband, leaving all the courtyard's troublemakers speechless.
Watching them get so angry they could spit blood while being unable to do a thing to us, I pinched He Yuzhu's cheek. Since you have eyes only for me, from now on, we'll be the ones calling the shots in this courtyard!
