Old Man Ning of Dayang Village was old and coarse, but he raised a pair of beautiful daughters as lovely as flowers.
From a young age, they were betrothed to two families in the neighboring village.
When the time came for them to marry, the elder daughter’s fiancé had been conscripted into the army. He was gone for many years, his fate unknown. The younger daughter’s fiancé, however, had passed the exam to become a Xiucai and was a popular candidate for the Juren title this year.
Seeing that the elder daughter would likely become a widow if she married, while the younger daughter was set to become the wife of a Juren, the elder daughter refused to accept her lot. She threw a fit—crying, screaming, and threatening to hang herself—forcing her old father to agree to let her be the Juren’s wife instead.
Ning Yuchan was that unlucky younger daughter. She had no choice but to hold a rooster and complete the wedding ceremony under the witness of the elders, becoming a “young widow” the moment she married.
Everyone said her husband was dead, his body never found.
But unexpectedly, a few years later, the man who had supposedly died in battle suddenly returned, and he had even been ennobled as the Pingbei Marquis.
On a hot summer day, the man had just finished a shower, his abs scorching hot.
Ning Yuchan’s eyes were glued to him. Suddenly remembering that he was her elder sister’s fiancé, she quickly packed her things to run away, only to be caught red-handed.
Ning Yuchan accidentally glanced at his abs, her throat tightening. “Brother-in-law, don’t be angry. I’ll switch back with my sister right now.”
The man’s gaze was fixed on the woman’s tiny waist, which looked like it could be encircled by one hand. His throat bobbed, and he carried her straight into the room. “Whoever completed the wedding ceremony with me is my wife.”
Mini-Theater:
Huo Jingye had fancied the Ning family’s younger daughter since they were children. But his mother, not knowing this, had gone to great lengths—offering chickens and ducks—to arrange a betrothal with Old Man Ning’s elder daughter.
He couldn’t voice his suffering.
After five years in the army, he secretly returned home, only to hear that his fiancée had married into his family by performing the wedding ceremony with a rooster.
He didn’t dare enter the house.
After completing his mission, he returned home in glory, forced to face the young wife who had married him via a rooster.
She had waited for him for three years. Even if he didn’t like her, he had to accept it. Feelings could be cultivated over time, and besides, the Ning family’s elder daughter wasn’t ugly.
But when he entered the house, he saw the younger sister he had been dreaming of.
Huo’s mother couldn’t stand his dazed look and pushed him. “What are you standing there for? Back then, the elder sister didn’t want to be a widow, so she didn’t marry you. The one who married into our family was the younger sister.”
Huo Jingye: “…”
His ancestors’ graves must be smoking with good fortune!!!
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