The Fierce Wife

A sweet slice-of-life story with mutual pampering. In the first year of Tian Sheng, the new emperor ascended the throne, and the Jin people launched a large-scale invasion, plunging the land into chaos. The court conscripted soldiers, and Liu Cuihua from Liujia Village sent her three sons to the battlefield—none returned. Years later, Liu Cuihua miraculously gave birth to a precious child in her old age. The terrified couple hung red silk on their door overnight, raising their long-awaited youngest as a girl. But just as the child turned three, the war abruptly ended... As the child grew taller, nearly matching his father’s height, the elderly couple fretted until their lips blistered, losing sleep night after night. With no choice, they decided to hire a live-in "son-in-law" to cover up the truth. Who could have guessed that the "little son-in-law" bought for thirty pounds of pork would achieve great success, moving the family of three to the capital? —— Rumor had it that Lord Xu’s household harbored a fierce wife—a butcher by trade, standing eight feet tall, with a face hideous beyond compare. Pitiful Xu Yuan hadn’t even kept a concubine all these years. Later, those who met Xu Yuan’s wife couldn’t help but raise their thumbs in admiration: "Sister-in-law is truly a hero!"