A lonely, unlucky military officer with a stubborn fate insisted on marrying me.

An hour later, heart-wrenching screams suddenly came from inside the house.

Wang Erhua was eating her third pancake when she heard the sound. She immediately threw the pancake down and excitedly rushed into the house.

"Where are you going!"

Wang Fen grabbed her arm, her face darkening. "It's my son's wedding night, what are you doing getting involved?"

"A wedding night in broad daylight is simply inappropriate!"

Wang Erhua struggled, deliberately raising her voice, "Listen! That girl is screaming so pitifully, her voice is almost split in two. Could she have been abused? I'll go check what happened!"

"What's wrong with shouting a couple of times? What kind of wedding night doesn't have some noise?" Wang Fen retorted, stubbornly holding on.

From inside the house came shouts like, "You big idiot! You bastard! Let go of me! What did you force-feed me?"

The wailing and cursing grew more intense, and the onlookers outside the courtyard began to whisper among themselves. Wang Fen was starting to lose face. "That little bitch has such a foul mouth."

"Hey, Wang Fen, aren't you really going to check on things? What if someone gets killed?" someone couldn't help but ask.

"What kind of death could result from consummating sexual relations between husband and wife?"

Wang Fen, hands on her hips, declared fiercely, "I'm telling you, if anyone dares to come into this house today and ruin my son's good time, I'll fight them to the death!"

Seeing this, Wang Erhua sullenly sat back down in her original seat.

She was still hoping that Wang Dashan wouldn't really ruin Lin Xiulan, but alas, it was her fate.

The shouts and curses inside the house gradually subsided, mixed with muffled groans. Wang Erhua knew that Wang Dashan's plan had succeeded.

Just then, footsteps came from the courtyard gate, and the brigade leader's son, Lin Guodong, and Lin Dayong's younger brother, Lin Gan, walked in.

Wang Erhua's eyes lit up, and she immediately went to greet them: "Guodong, Lin Gan, what brings you here? Are you here for the wedding?"

"No, Auntie."

Lin Guodong's face was serious. "We've come to see Aunt Xiulan. Someone in the village said they saw her here and told her to go home right away."

"Xiulan? I haven't seen her!"

Wang Erhua pretended to be stupid and pointed inside the house, "Today is Wang Dagen's wedding. There's only one bride. There's no Aunt Xiulan here."

Oh, wait, look at my mouth! How could it only be the bride? We're all people! Haha, all real relatives!

Lin Guodong's heart skipped a beat.

He knew Lin Yinyin was marrying Wang Dashan today. But before he left the village, he saw Lin Yinyin still making a scene at home. Why did Wang Dashan change partners so quickly?

Suddenly, he remembered his father's special instructions before he left: to let them meet the bride!

"It's over!" Lin Gan realized what was happening at that moment.

His face turned ashen. Could this bride be my sister-in-law, Lin Xiulan?

No sooner had he finished speaking than the door was kicked open with a bang.

Wang Dagen, shirtless with blood still flowing from the scratches on his back, ran out crying, pulling up his pants: "Mom! My wife hit me! She's not sweet, not sweet at all."

The next second, everyone froze.

A person staggered out of the house.

Her body was covered in bruises.

But this is no eighteen-year-old young wife, she's clearly a forty-year-old old woman!

Her hair was disheveled, her cheeks were swollen, there was blood at the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were somewhat unfocused.

"Lin Xiulan?!"

The bowl in Wang Fen's hand crashed to the ground with a "bang".

"You... what are you doing here? Where's my son's bride?!"

Lin Xiulan regained her senses a little. She stood up shakily, her eyes blazing with anger. "You heartless old hag! Your idiot son of a bitch has violated me! I'm going to report you for rape!"

Lin Xiulan straightened her clothes and rushed towards the door like a madwoman.

"Stop her! Stop her!" Wang Fen shouted.

Regardless of how she got here, the fact that her son "forcibly took" someone must not be told to the brigade leader.

Several aunties also understood what was going on and stepped forward to help: "Xiulan, talk things out, don't be impulsive!" While they were advising her, they held Lin Xiulan's waist tightly with their hands.

They didn't want outsiders to laugh at Wangjia Village, and they were even more afraid of implicating their own families.

"I'm going to sue you for rape!"

"You all just wait!"

Seeing this, Wang Fen tried to cover Lin Xiulan's mouth, but Lin Xiulan struggled desperately and she couldn't cover her mouth. So, she picked up the broom head next to her and shoved it into Lin Xiulan's mouth.

Wang Erhua, who had been watching the commotion, felt a pain in her mouth.

Luckily, the broom head was almost worn out, otherwise his mouth would have been pierced with blood.

"Waaaaah, Lin...Lin Gan! Save me! I'm your sister-in-law!"

Lin Xiulan's hair was disheveled, her mouth was full of blood, and she frantically begged Lin Gan for help.

Just as Lin Gan, who was standing there stunned, came to his senses and wanted to go over to help, he heard a clear and crisp female voice say, "What a lively wedding banquet!"

Everyone turned around at the sound and saw a girl in faded white clothes standing at the door.

She blinked her big, bright eyes, her gaze falling on Lin Xiulan's face, and nodded in satisfaction.

But her tone carried a hint of grievance: "Mom, you're really here! I thought you were just saying it casually this morning!"

"Lin Yinyin, what do you mean?" Wang Fen asked first.

"Oh my, this must be Aunt Wang, my former mother-in-law, right?"

Here's the thing, today is my wedding day. My mom told me that Wang Dagen is young and healthy, and... she also said that he's well-endowed and good in bed, and that I'm lucky to have married into the family.

But for some reason, she got angrier and angrier, and even scolded me for being ungrateful. Then she told me to go to the back hill to cut pig feed, saying that when I came back, she would make me go through the wedding ceremony...

But when I came back from cutting the grass, the house was empty. My dad said she might have come to Wangjia Village, so I rushed over here...

"What?!" The courtyard erupted in chaos.

This...this!

Could it be that Lin Xiulan has taken a liking to Wang Dashan?

"Bullshit!"

Lin Xiulan finally managed to throw away the broken broom, but then she heard Lin Yinyin's words and her eyes turned red with anger.

"I'm Lin Dayong's wife! Who would want a drooling idiot like me!"

It's all that bitch Lin Yinyin's fault! She knocked me unconscious with a stick and tied me up when I wasn't paying attention.

She's been a jinx since she was little! Don't listen to her lies.

"Mom, how could I be lying?" Lin Yinyin's voice was soft, and her tone was still aggrieved.

"You're the one who said Wang Dagen is young and strong, aren't you?"

You're the one who said you'd marry into this family to enjoy a life of luxury, aren't you?

You also mentioned many benefits of marrying Wang Dagen, such as marrying into the Wang family and all the money in the Wang family going to Dagen's wife.

Girls from all the surrounding villages are so envious, and you've said things like that, haven't you? Right?

"I..." Before Lin Xiulan could retort, Lin Yinyin interjected, "But Mom, even if you envy me, you can't just not tell Dad if you've taken a liking to Wang Dagen."

My dad doesn't know you're climbing over the wall like an apricot—no, wait! It's more like a red apricot climbing over the wall. Oh, no, that's not right either..."

Someone corrected, "It's 'the red apricot blossoms over the wall' (meaning she has an affair)!"

"Yes, yes, Auntie, you're absolutely right. I'm not good at studying, but I do know about propriety, righteousness, integrity, and a sense of shame."

It's wrong for a forty-year-old married woman to sleep with a young man.

"Ahhh, Lin Yinyin, you bitch, I'm going to kill you!" Lin Xiulan was about to pounce, but someone was faster than her.

"Slap!" Wang Fen slapped Lin Xiulan across the face.

She was trembling with rage. "So, you old hag! You were after my family's money all along!"

After saying that, he picked up the broom again and started whipping it at Lin Xiulan.

"So it was you who had this in mind all along! So it was you who had this planned all along!"

"You filthy slut, how dare you lay a finger on my son! I'll beat you to death, you heartless monster! I'll fight you to the death!"

Just then, the brigade leader arrived with several village officials.

It turned out that Lin Guodong had run back to report the situation when he saw it was getting out of control.

After hearing the whole story, the captain's face turned as black as if it could drip water.

"Quiet down, all of you! Look at yourselves!"

Upon seeing the captain, Lin Xiulan scrambled towards him, grabbing his trouser leg tightly: "Captain! You have to do justice for me! Lin Yinyin knocked me unconscious and tied me up, and Wang Dashan, he raped me..."

Before he could finish speaking, Wang Fen yelled at the top of her lungs, "Bullshit!"

It's clearly you who didn't uphold the virtues of a wife, and you deceived her into marriage and took advantage of her!

You said you were going to sell your stepdaughter, Lin Yinyin, to us, and even took 50 yuan from my family as a dowry! And now you've married into our family yourself. I've never seen anyone so shameless!

"Don't talk nonsense, I clearly am..."

"Shut up, all of you!"

The captain roared, looking at Lin Xiulan with her clothes disheveled, Wang Fen with her face flushed red, and Lin Yinyin in the crowd, his temples throbbing.

Too many coincidences can be problematic.