The Prosperity-Bringing Little Mute Wife

My new book, *Little Treasure's Search for His Family*, is now available. Come on over, cuties ^_^ Song Sanlang, the most learned man in Shanghe Village, married a mute wife. His little mute wife has a lovely figure and a pretty face. She's famous as the most beautiful woman in the surrounding villages, but she can't speak. Her stepmother says she's a bargain, worth selling for just five taels of silver. Wen Wan rolls her eyes. Her sisters-in-law laugh that she's doomed to suffer, unable to talk back even when she's bullied. Wen Wan rolls her eyes. A fortune-teller says she'll bring her husband good luck, and will one day live in luxury with servants everywhere. Wen Wan beams: “Now that's good.” [The Little Mute Wife's Matchmaking Story] To pay her stepbrother's tuition, her stepmother sells Wen Wan for five taels of silver, intending to marry her off to a cripple as his second wife. Wen Wan clenches her little fists and refuses to accept her fate. Knowing that Song Sanlang of Shanghe Village is plagued by bad luck, she runs into him one day in a sorghum field. Gathering her courage, she picks up a stick, squats in front of him, and writes: “Marry me. I'll bring you good luck.” Song Sanlang studies her writing for a moment, then says after a brief silence, “All right.” [No transmigration, no rebirth. The leads are both natives of this world. The male lead pursues the imperial examinations, while the female lead has unusually strong intuition. She is truly mute at first, but recovers her voice later. A cozy, indulgent farming-life romance.]