[Era Romance + Arranged Marriage Before Love + Size Difference + Older Man (5-Year Age Gap) + Slow-Burn Slice of Life + Simple Rural Struggle]
★ A delicate, soft-hearted village schoolteacher × a quiet, rugged hunter with a stoic exterior and a passionate heart
Qiao Qingyan’s stepsister seduced her civil servant fiancé. Then, by accident, Qingyan discovered she could hear her stepsister’s vicious inner thoughts.
If she didn’t marry into the Xiao family in her stepsister’s place, her family would sell her off to a disgusting old bachelor.
Desperate to escape that home, Qingyan reluctantly agrees to become her stepsister’s substitute bride and marry the hunter, Xiao Jinye.
Her stepsister secretly gloats:
“Xiao Jinye is dirt poor. He has a crippled mother and a mentally disabled younger sister. Once you marry into that family, you’ll spend your life trapped in poverty and hardship.”
But Qingyan doesn’t mind being poor. As long as a man has integrity, works hard, and isn’t lazy, she believes life will gradually get better.
Her stepsister sneers inwardly again:
“Being poor is one thing, but Xiao Jinye isn’t even capable as a man. You’ll end up living like a widow with a husband who’s no husband at all.”
Qingyan is secretly delighted. Perfect. She has no desire to share a bed with a man she doesn’t love anyway.
Little does she know that after marrying into the Xiao family, she enjoys meat with every meal. Her mother-in-law refuses to let her lift a finger, doting on her endlessly, while her sweet and innocent sister-in-law quickly wins her heart.
As for Xiao Jinye…
He spoils her beyond measure. If his wife tells him to go east, he’ll never take a single step west.
There is only one thing Qingyan isn’t happy about.
Wasn’t Xiao Jinye supposed to be incapable in that department?
Then why does he turn into a starving wolf every night, rough and insatiable?
Fuming, Qingyan protests,
“Are you ever going to stop?”
His voice is low and hoarse as he replies,
“What can I do, wife? I just want to spend every moment wrapped up with you.”
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