The Farmer's Ugly Wife

New novel: My Silly Wife. Please add it to your reading list! After transmigrating, Xia Xi wishes the heavens would strike her with lightning and send her back to the afterlife. Being ugly is bad enough, but she’s also become a mother. What’s more, she’s married to an ungrateful wretch. Xia Xi has had enough. She takes down the worst offenders, kicks the scum to the curb, and divorces the ungrateful wretch. Her life starts getting better and better, but she accidentally catches the attention of a powerful man. From then on, he dotes on her again and again, until she becomes the most honored woman around. Bonus scene: On a dark, windy night, two thousand soldiers carry torches and shoulder a wedding procession’s worth of betrothal gifts to a farmer’s house. A certain someone dismounts and steps forward to knock. No answer. “Madam Xia, I’ve come to ask for your hand!” No answer. “I’ve brought a thousand carts of betrothal gifts.” No answer. The man summons his courage and raises his voice. “My dear, the child is mine!” Silence from inside the house. Then a clear voice rings out: “Come in!” Overjoyed, the man pushes open the door and steps inside. A gleaming cleaver comes flying straight at him. “Go die!”