Where Can I Find a Husband Like This?

The Qi family arranged a marriage for Qi Yuan. Her prospective groom was the seventh young master of the Wen'an Marquis's residence.

He could compose poems in seven steps at a tender age, but unfortunately fell from a horse when he was eight. From then on, he was paralyzed from the waist down.

Her sisters felt sorry for her. She was so beautiful that she could have become a consort in the palace.

Qi Yuan thought the marriage was a good match. She had her eye on the seventh young master's paralysis. She could avoid having to get close to him and use caring for him as an excuse to steer clear of conflicts in the inner household. Most importantly, with him in such poor health, she could go out, take a job, kill someone, and come back without him noticing.

Where else could she find a husband like that?

Grandmother found Lu Xiuyuan a bride: a sickly little girl from the Qi family, raised on their country estate.

His older brothers and sisters were all displeased. Even though their seventh brother could not walk properly, they felt the Lu family's status was more than enough to get him a bride raised in the capital.

But Lu Xiuyuan thought the Qi girl was just right. Having grown up in the countryside, she couldn't read, so she would be easy to fool. Even if they shared a bed, he wouldn't need to worry that she might discover his legs were perfectly fine, and she wouldn't interfere with the Seven Stars Bureau's missions.

Coming soon: From the Start with Three Daughters, a farming story

Ming Yue transmigrated into a book and became the former wife of the scholar who was caged and drowned in a pig cage, a character who appeared only a few times in the story.

According to the story, she had abandoned her three daughters and her husband because she despised poverty and loved wealth, then eloped with a traveling peddler. Later, she used her pretty face to become a concubine to a powerful official and moved to the capital.

After learning that her husband had risen to prominence, she repeatedly showed up at his door to make trouble. The righteous heroine exposed her old affair with the peddler, and she was drowned in a pig cage, meeting a gruesome end.

But just after Ming Yue had coaxed her three famine-stricken-looking daughters to sleep, she was about to gather herbs for her husband, who was as thin as a skeleton, when she happened to spot her mother-in-law whispering with the peddler in the woods.

Her mother-in-law had sold her to the peddler. He would take her away that very night! Her mother-in-law had even said she was pretty, and that the three girls she had borne would be worth something when they grew up, too. The peddler could come back in a few years to see what they were worth.

So, was the original story even worth believing? Was this really the kind and loving mother-in-law from the book?

Theme: Even when walking through darkness, keep your heart pointed toward the light.