Yu Tao transmigrated into a novel and became the third young lady the Duke's household wanted nothing to do with, a village girl raised in the countryside.
She thought she'd landed in a farming story, until one day she found an injured man.
The man was the crown prince, who had been harmed by villains and left stranded in the countryside.
The crown prince was refined and scholarly, a smiling devil who was cold and heartless.
One was a noble gentleman, the other a village girl. They were worlds apart.
According to the plot, if the village girl had any unrealistic fantasies, the heartless crown prince wouldn't soften in the slightest. A tragic tale of physical and emotional torment was about to begin.
Until one day, the crown prince heard the stingy village girl loudly complain:
"He can't carry things on his shoulders or lift a thing with his hands. He's worse at work than the dog at the village entrance!"
"One dose of medicine costs ten coins!"
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Yu Tao's ideal man was a strapping fellow who could plow two mu of land. She had little patience for the pretty boy in her house.
But later, when the Duke's household wanted to take her back and marry her off for political reasons, she had no choice but to make the pretty boy repay his life-saving debt by marrying her.
But how could the future ruler of the empire possibly marry a country woman?
According to the plot, once the crown prince returned, Yu Tao would be cast aside.
Who could have guessed that after the stingy village girl slept with him, she wouldn't take responsibility, and instead laid down the rules for the crown prince:
She was the head of the household, and if he ate her food and drank her water, he had to obey her.
If she found another sweetheart outside, he would have to ask to be divorced.
And if they had a child, he would have to stay home and take care of the baby!
Faced with such audacious words, the crown prince's phoenix eyes blazed with anger:
"What? You have another sweetheart outside?"
"Who is he? I'll wipe out his entire clan!"
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When the Defender General found the crown prince,
the legendary prince, kind-faced but ruthless and deep in schemes, was rolling up his sleeves in coarse clothes and pulling a book from his belongings:
How to Please Your Wife and Raise Your Children.
His little wife was still loudly complaining at his side.
The noble, bright-hearted crown prince's forehead veins throbbed, but when he spoke, he said:
"Whatever went wrong, it was all my fault."
"You're right about everything, my dear."
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Later, the crown prince returned to the capital, where he should have forgotten everything.
But in the deep night, what came back to him was:
Two people beneath one roof, sharing three meals through all four seasons.
From then on, for the rest of his life, he could never let that person go.
Theme: Love requires mutual respect