After the Marriage Swap, the Celibate Villain Drops the Act [The 1980s]

Lu Miao woke up to find herself in a period novel as a nasty supporting character who had her eye on the male lead.

After looking at the male lead's square, stiff face, she shuddered, packed her things, and turned around to marry He Mingchuan, the cold-faced military officer the female lead had "dumped" on her.

He Mingchuan was the hardest character in the book to read: taciturn, ruthless, stiff, and composed.

He was cool and distant, yet had an exceptionally handsome face.

He did everything by the book, even buttoning his clothes all the way to the top. He stayed wrapped up tight even at home.

Lu Miao couldn't see or touch a thing, and worried that she should find a reason to divorce him after a while.

Before she could bring it up, something changed on He Mingchuan's end.

Lately, he'd suddenly become especially generous, and Lu Miao kept walking in on him changing clothes.

A man who'd never cared about his appearance was suddenly paying attention to how he dressed. In Lu Miao's experience, that could only mean... he had someone on the side.

Lu Miao shared her concerns with her sister-in-law, lamenting that she didn't know who would get to enjoy such a fine body.

When He Kefe told her older brother what his wife suspected, she didn't dare look up at his expression.

Only after a long pause did she hear him give a brief, cold laugh.

Had it made him furious?

"His face was bright red, and his clothes hung loosely on him. Was he running a fever?"

No, he wasn't feverish. He was feeling frisky.

A recommendation for my friend Ting Jinkan's food novel, A Commoner's Life After Transmigration. It's wonderful!

After transmigrating, chef Qiao Mianmian became the youngest daughter in a blended family in ancient times.

Her father was a butcher, and her mother took in sewing and mending jobs. All nine members of the family were ordinary people at the bottom of society.

Just as her older siblings were reaching the age to marry, the government raised taxes, and heavy rain washed away part of the family's earthen house...

Life was so hard they could barely manage two meals a day.

Qiao Mianmian dreamed of owning a home and land, and living in luxury.

To make that dream come true, she set up a little stove beside a butcher shop and started selling braised pork offal.

Lu Zhao had just taken up the post of military commissioner. After renting a new house, he found delicious aromas drifting over from next door at every mealtime:

Braised fish today,

roast lamb tomorrow...

Watching his attendant burn the rice day after day, Lu Zhao sighed and rubbed his forehead. When he learned that the young woman next door had set up a food stall, he immediately went out with money in hand.

Later, Lu Zhao's grandmother, worried that he was getting thin from hunger, came to visit. Before she even stepped inside, her voice rang out: "My precious grandson! You must have been eating and sleeping terribly since you left Bianjing. Let Grandma see how much weight you've lost... Huh? How did you get so much taller and sturdier?"

Then she looked at the attendant, who'd grown a round face, and thought her eyes were playing tricks on her. Good grief, even piglets don't grow that fast!

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