My husband has been acting a little strange lately.
Though she's just the daughter of a peasant family, illiterate and inexperienced, Wen Xiaodie feels sure she's not imagining it.
Her husband is a fine young gentleman from the county town, more handsome than anyone in a painting. Everyone was shocked when he asked for her hand, and thought she'd spend the rest of her life under his thumb.
But he's refined and neat, and always speaks with good manners. Since they married, he has come and gone early and kept to his duties.
Having seen so many unhappy marriages among her sisters, Wen Xiaodie is more than satisfied with such an honest husband, so she decides not to nitpick.
The dead pheasants, the Yellow Immortal who kneels and bows at their door every morning, and the little bird that suddenly learned to speak one day and kept saying, "Si Wuyue is the Ghost King! He's the Ghost King!"... She should just ignore the bird, right?
As long as her husband stays honest, that's all that matters.
But at some point, a strange woman's scent suddenly appeared on her husband. That cheap, vulgar smell of face powder! The kiss marks on his long neck, and the way he keeps avoiding her gaze! Wen Xiaodie simply can't stand any of it!!
She's old-fashioned, and she won't allow her husband at home to "attract bees and butterflies."
She has to talk to him. No matter what it takes, she must bring her honest husband back to her.
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"My wife? She's no farm girl. She's a great demon, the sort who's obsessed with tacky role-play."
"But, Lord Ghost King... weren't you having fun playing along, too?" his subordinate said weakly, driven nearly to the brink by the great demon and the Ghost King.
Theme: Treat everyone equally
