The Lame Wife [Republican Era]

On the eve of her wedding, Shen Suqiu, a tenant farmer's daughter, had three toes broken by a strip of foot-binding cloth before being married off as a concubine to Qiu Shoucheng, a wealthy merchant in Cishui County. A severe drought gripped the Guanzhong region. For three years, not a single crop had grown north of the Wei River. The Qiu family forced its tenant farmers to sign predatory contracts: borrow one dou in spring, repay three in autumn. The farmers grew furious. Zhou Tiesheng, eldest son of the Zhou family, endured humiliation and took a job as a hired hand in the Qiu household. In secret, he stole grain to help his neighbors and elders. But his crime was discovered. One day, while stealing, he was caught, brutally beaten, and thrown into a cesspit, leaving him permanently disabled. The one who reported him was none other than Shen Suqiu, his fellow villager and old acquaintance. She was also the lofty Sixth Concubine of the household. And she was the one he had wanted to love but never dared, the one he wanted to hate but could never bring himself to hate... His first love. / Shen Suqiu would never forget that day. The man she loved had come as an enforcer, blocking the entrance to her family home and tying her elder brother to a millstone, where he ground his brother's tendons to pieces. Her father was held down in the ancestral hall and forced to lick the oats scattered on the ground, crying out for mercy. Her red wedding gown was stitched all over with contracts for the Shen family's unpaid grain. With no other choice, Shen Suqiu agreed to pay the debt with her body and marry the Qiu family patriarch, who was over seventy, as a concubine. Trapped in the grand estate like a bird in a golden cage, Suqiu spent every year in quiet misery. Until he returned to the Qiu estate, once again taking a job as a hired hand. This time, she was above him, and he was below her. She wanted him dead. But she didn't want him to die too quickly. Better to leave him unable to live and unable to die... / Dark-skinned, rugged man X limping concubine. A secret story from Guanzhong, explicit adult fiction. A loosely imagined Republican-era setting. Happy ending, exclusive couple. The full manuscript is complete, so dive in with confidence. Theme: Cherish life and treasure food.