Even a Rough Guy Can Smell Sweet

[Rugged Hero] [Marriage Before Love]

Du Xiaoshao (Wei Shao) x Leng Dayong (the heroine will give him a new name later)

Down-on-her-luck marquis's daughter x honest farmer

Wei Chong, Marquis of Dingling, pleaded on behalf of Prince Chen, who had lost the struggle for the throne. This enraged the new emperor, who stripped the Wei family of their title and seized their property. The entire clan was exiled, facing almost certain death.

The tenant-farming Leng family had once received great kindness from the marquis's wife, Madam He. They helped her daughter, Wei Shao, escape the marquis's residence and brought her to Lingquan Town. To hide her identity, they claimed she was the bride they had found for their son, Dayong.

From then on, Wei Shao became Lingquan Town's most pampered young lady: Du Xiaoshao.

With her parents and family members' fates unknown, and herself reduced to a poor peasant girl, Du Xiaoshao was miserable and terrified.

It took her two whole years to come to terms with even part of her new reality.

But she could never accept that she was already married, especially not to Leng Dayong! He was stern-faced and taciturn, with shoulders nearly twice as broad as hers, and he sweated buckets every day working in the fields. What an absolute blockhead!

Xiaoshao wept alone. A refined young lady like her, a delicate beauty, should have been matched with a gentle, cultured young master from a noble family.

At first, Du Xiaoshao was teary-eyed: "You're covered in mud and sweat. Don't you dare come near me!"

Later, Du Xiaoshao was still teary-eyed: "Y-you... how can you... how can you smell so nice?"

Leng Dayong pinched Du Xiaoshao's cheek. "I just like working. It's not like I don't wash."

So when her childhood sweetheart, the crown prince, found her and offered to take her back to the palace, Du Xiaoshao hesitated.

She suddenly thought that Leng Dayong might be a little too muscular, but as far as looks went, he didn't seem to lose out to the crown prince at all.

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