The Little Widow of the Hunter's Household

Yunniang was widowed at a very young age.

The villagers said her birth chart was too harsh, and that she had cursed her husband to death as soon as she entered his home.

For three years, she managed the household frugally, cared for her mother-in-law, and raised her young sister-in-law.

Unable to bear the thought of Yunniang spending her whole life as a widow, her mother-in-law took her hand and sighed. "You're still young. You can't spend your whole life cooped up at home as a widow. Why don't I find you a match, so you'll have someone to rely on?"

Then one day, while gathering mushrooms in the mountains, Yunniang came across a frenzied wild boar. Lin Ping, the hunter from the end of the village, rescued her and carried her home.

Her mother-in-law had long been struggling to find her a suitable match. When she saw the tall, burly hunter, her eyes flashed with an idea. That very night, she took Yunniang aside and urged her, "Lin Ping is strong and healthy. He's much better than my son, who died young. If you marry him, he certainly won't mistreat you."

After that, her mother-in-law repeatedly brought the two together in the name of repaying the debt of gratitude. Yunniang gradually realized that Lin Ping wasn't the terrifying brute the rumors made him out to be. In fact, he was honest and kindhearted.

But their good fortune didn't last. Her brother and sister-in-law, whom she hadn't seen for years, suddenly showed up with a group of people, intent on forcing her to marry a tyrannical, vicious landlord in town. Countless young women had died at his hands.

Yunniang resisted with all her might. At the critical moment, Lin Ping arrived with a knife in hand and drove them away, shouting, "Yunniang is the woman I'm going to marry. If anyone dares lay a hand on her, they'll have to answer to my blade first!"

After the villains had left, Yunniang thanked him with red-rimmed eyes. The usually fierce hunter's ears turned scarlet, and he stammered, "Yunniang, I... I meant what I said just now. I truly want to marry you. Could you think about it and marry me?"

After they married, the villagers said one of them was a husband-killer and the other a family-killer. They wondered who would be cursed to death by the other first.

Who could have guessed that their lives would only get better and better, until they moved from the village to town with the old lady?

Theme: Starting over.