Reborn on My Wedding Night: This Time, I Won't Fail My Soldier Husband
Dong Shuyao died at the end of 1987, at the age of twenty-five.
That was the fifth year since she had been sold by Shen Zhinian to a red-light district in Hong Kong.
Because she stubbornly refused to serve customers, she was forced to drink a hallucinogenic potion by two local thugs and jumped from a high-rise building.
The sky full of white snow and bright red blood intertwined with her regret, eventually fading into total darkness.
But to her surprise, when she opened her eyes again, what met her gaze were bright red bed sheets and wedding candles.
Before she could even think it through, a strange, shivering sensation washed over her body.
A man!!
"Bang!"
Unpleasant memories flooded back to Dong Shuyao, and she kicked the hot, tall body on top of her.
"Thud!"
Caught off guard, Lu Yuzhou was kicked off the bed. He had already taken off his shirt, and his toned, V-shaped waistline came into Dong Shuyao's view.
Looking further up, she saw the man's well-developed pectoral muscles and the biceps that bulged as he clenched his hands in anger.
What was going on?
Wasn't she dead?
Dong Shuyao held her head in a daze, and under the dim candlelight, she finally saw the man's cold and sharp face.
"Lu... Lu Yuzhou?"
Hadn't she eloped with Shen Zhinian, lured by Jiang Xiaochun's coaxing and Shen Zhinian's deliberate seduction?
How could she still see her ill-fated husband?
"Dong Shuyao, do you have a heart at all?"
Such a familiar line!
It seemed to be what Lu Yuzhou had said to her on their wedding night, after she kicked him off the bed when he tried to get intimate with her.
The collapse of their relationship began on that wedding night.
"I don't even mind that you cheated; why should he mind that you have a husband?"
Lu Yuzhou seemed about to say a very famous line: "Isn't it obvious who loves you more?"
In her previous life, when Dong Shuyao heard this, she scolded Lu Yuzhou mercilessly and even threatened to die if he didn't get out.
The most hurtful part was: "If my parents hadn't forced me to marry you, I would have been with Zhinian long ago. I hate you to death."
But after she went missing, even her parents gave up looking for her, and only Lu Yuzhou persisted.
Several times, he had almost found her, but it was Dong Shuyao herself who felt guilty and hid away.
How could a woman sold to such a place be worthy of Lu Yuzhou, who was already a battalion commander?
If she returned to the military camp with Lu Yuzhou, the gossip would drown him, and she might even cause him to lose his rank.
By the time she realized that Lu Yuzhou was the only one who truly loved her, it was already too late.
However, she was now the twenty-year-old Dong Shuyao.
A clean, innocent young woman who hadn't yet been deceived by scum.
"I'll go out first; you should think it over carefully!"
Dong Shuyao had been silent, and Lu Yuzhou felt anxious, terrified of hearing vicious words from her beautiful little mouth.
"Don't..."
The woman's voice was soft, and her palm, gripping his wrist, was cold: "I... I didn't mean it. It's that time of the month, and my stomach hurts so much."
After speaking, Dong Shuyao pouted and looked at Lu Yuzhou pitifully: "Husband, could you help me rub it?"
Lu Yuzhou's angry and sad expression was still on his face, and a storm was gathering in his eyes: "What did you call me?"
She usually wouldn't even call him Brother Yuzhou, always using his full name; now she called him "husband"?
He suspected he was hallucinating.
"Husband?"
Dong Shuyao gave a gentle tug, and the six-foot-tall man sat on the edge of the bed quite obediently.
"We've already held the wedding, so if I don't call you husband, what should I call you?"
"Lu Yuzhou?"
"No!"
Lu Yuzhou's mouth moved faster than his brain: "Don't be so formal, calling me husband is just fine."
"Aren't you sleepy?"
Dong Shuyao blushed and patted the empty space beside her: "I'm exhausted after the long day, let's sleep!"
Although Lu Yuzhou was still skeptical about her change in attitude, his body very honestly crawled under the covers.
Dong Shuyao faced him, her heart beating very fast.
She was only wearing a cotton camisole, and the other person...
Above was a bare chest, and under the quilt, a tent was pitched high between her legs.
The weather in early May wasn't hot, but Dong Shuyao still felt waves of heat.
Lu Yuzhou wasn't doing much better.
He inched closer to Dong Shuyao, and sensing no resistance, he pressed against her, holding her with one hand while reaching toward her lower abdomen with the other.
"Don't..."
Dong Shuyao bit her lower lip tightly: "I'm not lying to you, I really am on my period."
A warm, slightly rough hand pressed against her cold lower abdomen, and the dragging pain in her stomach eased a little.
Dong Shuyao's face was so red it looked like it might bleed, appearing even more charming under the flickering candlelight.
Lu Yuzhou chuckled: "There's no brown sugar left at home. I'll take you to the state-run store tomorrow to pick up some things."
He had been secretly in love with Dong Shuyao since he was a child, and to save up for his marriage, he had been frugal all these years, saving quite a bit of money and ration coupons.
Plus, he had been in the military camp and didn't have many expenses.
Whatever Dong Shuyao wanted, he wanted to buy it for her.
He also wanted Yaoyao to see clearly that the soft-skinned Shen Zhinian was inferior to him in every way, except for being a bit fairer.
Having just been reborn, Dong Shuyao thought she wouldn't be able to sleep, but smelling the faint scent of soap on Lu Yuzhou, she soon fell into a deep sleep.
The candle burned out, and she still hadn't come out of the room.
Outside the Lu family gate—
Shen Zhinian jumped down from the wall: "Xiaochun, the lights are out in the room."
Jiang Xiaochun clenched her fists, furious: "It's fine. Dong Shuyao is indisposed, they won't do anything."
Besides, she had already promised that once Lu Yuzhou's one-month wedding leave ended, she would elope with Shen Zhinian.
"Is it really okay for us to do this?"
Shen Zhinian reached for Jiang Xiaochun's hand: "You know, the person I like is you."
Jiang Xiaochun shook him off: "You said you would help me. If you don't keep your word, I won't talk to you again."
"I'll help!"
Shen Zhinian muttered: "I didn't say I wouldn't."
Jiang Xiaochun patted his shoulder: "As long as I replace Dong Shuyao and become the only daughter of the Dong family, everything you want will be yours too."
The Dong family was a family of scholars; their ancestors had been tutors to princes, and they had substantial family assets.
Now, Father Dong and Mother Dong were both professors at Qingbei University, with high social status.
These were professors in the eighties!
When she was reading the book, Jiang Xiaochun had envied Dong Shuyao for not only having a husband who loved her so much, but also for her top-tier family background and beautiful appearance.
Now that she had become a part of the book, she vowed to seize the luck of the original heroine.
Replace her, become her, surpass her.
Become the happiest person in the world.
She didn't know that her schemes had already been seen through by the reborn Dong Shuyao.
In this life, Dong Shuyao was determined not to let Lu Yuzhou down and to treat him well for the rest of her life.
As for eloping?
Whoever wants to run can go run!