A Substitute Bride to a Disabled Military Officer, He Lures Me into His Dreams Every Night

[Military romance in the 1970s + a substitute bride's rise to success + dreams come true + sweet romance with a rugged man]

In the late autumn of 1978, rope marks circled Chen Chuxia's wrists as her stepmother forced her into a jeep to take her younger sister's place as the bride of Deputy Regiment Commander Huo, a man rumored to be crippled, disfigured, violent, and cursed to bring death to his wives.

Everyone was waiting to see her become a widow in all but name and be tormented to death by her vicious in-laws. But no one knew that the ancestral warm jade pendant she wore against her chest grew hot every night. In her dreams, a stern man with two perfectly healthy legs, standing tall and straight, pinned her against a tree and rasped breathlessly, "Call me hubby. If you don't, you won't be getting out tonight!"

Even stranger, the bruises from fingers digging into her waist and the bitten corner of her lip from her dreams appeared exactly as they had in reality the next day!

When her stepmother came demanding five hundred yuan in bride price and her wicked second aunt-in-law came to steal their food rations, Huo Beigui, the "living King of Hell" in a wheelchair, crushed the solid wood table with one hand and pulled her into his arms to protect her. "Let's see who dares touch my woman!"

By day, the military district's deputy regiment commander kept up a cold front and pretended to be paralyzed. By night, he visited her dreams and entangled her relentlessly. It seemed she'd married a rather extraordinary fake cripple.