My Wife Is the Bandit Chief

Newly appointed top scholar Pei Jiu is inexplicably demoted to a frontier town. His first task after taking office is to suppress bandits. There he meets a beautiful young woman, with delicate hands and a faint smile.

The tenderness of that slight nod is just like the shy grace of a water lily.

At first sight: Pei Jiu spots the young woman on the mountain path. She looks timid, like a newborn fawn, so lovely and helpless that he can't help but pity her.

Pei Jiu's heroic spirit rises: "Miss, where do you live? I'll escort you down the mountain."

Long Xiao: "..."

Pei Jiu: "Don't be afraid. I'll take you down the mountain."

Long Xiao looks at the man who came right to her, telling her not to be afraid while trembling like a leaf himself. Though frightened, he's still thinking of a stranger. She nods solemnly: Responsible, good with children. She looks him up and down, left and right. Handsome, good figure, well suited to carrying on the family line.

Then he's the one. She'll make him her husband!

Each with their own agenda, the two hit it off at once and happily tie the knot...

After the wedding:

Pei Jiu and Long Xiao become husband and wife. One day, Pei Jiu remembers how he was bullied because he judged people by their appearance and complains indignantly: "You pretended to be weak and tricked me!"

His delicate-looking wife looks up. "What did you say?" She raises a broadsword without changing her expression.

Pei Jiu, in tears: "My dear wife, I was wrong."

Synopsis Two:

When Pei Jiu's three-year term ends, he and Long Xiao move away. The beautiful Mrs. Pei attracts countless admirers. On his first day in his new post, the yamen reports, "My lord, bandits have kidnapped your wife!"

Pei Jiu's hand twitches. They kidnapped her to the bandit chief's lair? Have they got a death wish?

He leads a group of men up the mountain and finally finds Long Xiao sitting in a chair. Mrs. Pei throws herself into his arms and says timidly, "Husband, I'm so scared."

Pei Jiu looks at the fallen bodies scattered behind her. "My dear wife, I'm scared too."

Female bandit chief X weak scholar. A seemingly fragile but formidable heroine X an elegant, delicate scholar with a steadfast heart and a shamelessly devoted husband. [One-on-one romance, sweet and doting]

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