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The Imperial Scholar's Terrified Husband

share time: 2025-06-22 02:30:17

When Su Sanniang, a butcher's daughter, rescues the amnesiac top scholar Pei Yan from a cliff, she gains an unexpected 'henpecked husband'. By day he reigns as the ruthless minister of justice, but dusk finds him kneeling in their yard scrubbing hog bristles. Their domestic farce shatters when Pei shields Sanniang from royal wrath in court, revealing a bloodstained love token. As officials gasp, the scholar drags his wife's calloused hand to his lips: 'The man you saved three years ago was no scholar – he's the empire's most wanted traitor.' Sanniang's butcher knife clatters—could those scars beneath his robes conceal the lost crown prince's insignia?

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