If you don't consummate the marriage for three years and then marry a successful educated youth

Moonlight streamed into the room.

The muscular man lying on the ground glanced at his wife on the kang (a heated brick bed), whose figure could only be vaguely seen in the moonlight. His Adam's apple bobbed, and he slowly got up and lay down beside her.

He watched as she kicked off the blanket, reached out to cover her up again, and leaned closer to give her a kiss.

The next second, the woman screamed, pulled out a pair of scissors from somewhere, and stabbed wildly with her eyes closed.

He cursed, "You filthy scoundrel, get out of here! Jiang Lie, you broke your promise! Who gave you permission to kiss me? Get away!"

Jiang Lie instinctively raised his hand to block, but his arm was stabbed by a pair of scissors. The sharp pain made him groan, and he didn't even look at the blood dripping down his arm.

Seeing that he remained silent, Lin Fengjiao calmed down and hid in the corner of the kang (a heated brick bed), her eyes filled with disgust and vigilance: "Get away from me, don't come near me, or I'll stab you to death."

"...Ha, we're husband and wife, and we haven't consummated our marriage in three years. I just kissed you, and you're going to stab me with scissors. Lin Fengjiao, you have no conscience."

My heart was wounded beyond recognition by that one snip of the scissors and the cold treatment I've received over the past three years. I couldn't suppress the resentment and anger in my heart, even though my arm wasn't actually injured.

He straightened up, his tall and robust figure resembling a small mountain, and stood quietly by the bed.

He said coldly, "Come on, come with me to your mother's house."

Lin Fengjiao glared at him and cursed, "Are you an animal? You kissed me without my permission, it's all your fault. How dare you go to my parents' house to cause trouble?"

"Let me tell you, I will never forgive you this time. Even if you go to my parents, it won't do you any good. You were the one who asked me to marry you, and you said you would give me time to accept you."

"It's only been three years, and you can't stand it anymore, huh?"

Under the cover of night, the man's eyes burned with fury. He slammed his hand on the edge of the bed and gritted his teeth, saying, "Yes, you're worried that I'm too tall and strong and might hurt you. If you don't want to share a room, I can give you time."

"But Lin Fengjiao, I'm a normal man. I want to know what my wife did wrong. In these three years, ask yourself honestly, how have I treated you? Why can't I warm your heart?"

A hint of guilt flashed in Lin Fengjiao's eyes, but she stubbornly said, "I don't care. I'm the village beauty, and many people like me. If you hadn't been so persistent and kind to me, I would never have married you."

The two remained locked in a standoff until Lin Fengjiao grew impatient and said, "Go sleep outside. You're not allowed to share a room with me, you hear me? What I say goes. If you don't listen, I'll cry."

Looking at his wife, who was completely unyielding, Jiang Lie felt a deep sense of powerlessness. Three years had passed, and the joy he had felt when he first married the girl he loved had been completely worn away.

Somewhat dejected, she sat on the edge of the bed and said, "Fine, I'm tired. Since you don't want me to touch you and don't want to be a real husband and wife with me, then I'll let you go home."

"I can't live like this anymore, come with me."

"Since it's dark and no one will see or gossip, you can do whatever you want from now on. I don't care anymore."

Lin Fengjiao's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this, and she instinctively refused: "No, if you dare to divorce me, you're forcing me to die. I deliberately refused to consummate our marriage because you look too fierce and I'm scared."

She started crying and sobbing, looking as if she had suffered a great injustice.

Jiang Lie, being tongue-tied, was speechless. So it was all his fault, huh? She didn't care about their childhood friendship, had been obedient to her for three years and given her all the money, and wouldn't let her do any farm work.

The result was still unsatisfactory. Not only was intimacy out of the question, but even a kiss was unacceptable. There was no pleasure at all, and life was unbearable.

He stepped onto the kang (heated brick bed), grabbed her wrist, and lifted her up in his arms.

Lin Fengjiao screamed and pounded on her fists, yelling, "Let go! Let go of me! Or I'll really stab you again! Do you hear me? Are you an animal?"

Jiang Lie ignored her, put a coat on her, grabbed her wrist, and went out.

"Shh, if you shout again, you'll wake up everyone in the village. They'll know you don't want to consummate your marriage and even stabbed him with scissors. Do you think they'll laugh at me or at you?"

"You...you actually threatened me! You're a scoundrel! You don't keep your word! You couldn't even last three years? All you know is sleeping with women!"

Lin Fengjiao cursed incoherently. In any case, no matter how much she beat or scolded him in the past three years, the man never laid a hand on her. She just vented her emotions.

Jiang Lie covered her mouth, pulled her to her father-in-law's house, and knocked on the door.

Someone opened the door quickly, and the mother-in-law was startled to see her daughter and son-in-law: "Son-in-law, what brings you here so late?"

"Yes, Mother, I have something to tell you."

"...Okay, come in."

Inside the main room of the Lin family's house, each person sat on a stool.

The father-in-law glanced at his son-in-law's arm, his brow furrowing slightly. He said with concern, "Son-in-law, how did you get your arm injured? Quickly ask your mother to bandage it for you, lest it get infected."

Jiang Lie glanced down and said in a low voice, "Yes, I can do it myself. Father, I've come here to tell you something."

He casually tore off a strip of cloth and wrapped it around the wound. After the bleeding stopped, he didn't even glance at it. Before he could say anything, Lin Fengjiao, who was standing nearby, had already exploded and stood up, crying uncontrollably.

"Father, Mother, he's bullying me."

"Look at his big size, one punch from him could kill me. I'm just too scared, that's why I don't want to share a room with him, it's not on purpose."

The father-in-law, upon hearing this, exclaimed in surprise, "Ah!"

Jiang Lie closed his eyes, feeling utterly ashamed. What kind of man was he? For three years, his wife wouldn't let him touch her, and her reason was still that damned fear of pain and his roughness.

His voice was deep: "Father, Mother, it's not that she doesn't want to sleep with me. We've been married for three years, and she's never let me touch her. We haven't had children because we haven't consummated our marriage."

"Tonight I covered her with a blanket and kissed her, and she took out scissors and stabbed me, trying to kill me. Who would hide scissors under their pillow for no reason?"

"I've really tried my best to make things this way, but I'm not capable of warming her heart. Let it go."

The father-in-law straightened up abruptly, staring at his son-in-law in shock, his mind buzzing. He knew that his daughter favored the educated youth who had returned to the city and had always been dissatisfied with Jiang Lie.

She thought he was illiterate, rude, and smelled of blood. She thought that since she had agreed to marry him, she was really ready to settle down and live a peaceful life. But she never expected that she would not consummate the marriage for three years.

She strode up to her daughter, and without saying a word, slapped her across the face, shouting, "Tell me, what's going on? Are you crazy? You're married, what does it mean if you don't consummate the marriage?"

Lin Fengjiao covered her burning face, her eyes filled with even more resentment as she looked at Jiang Lie. It was all this beast's fault; otherwise, why would she have been beaten by her father? All he knew was to tattle on this good-for-nothing.

Feeling utterly wronged, she said, "Dad, it's not that I don't want to, it's just that he's too scary and too rough, I'm afraid."

Who does he think he is? She had promised Qing Shu that she would remain chaste for him and wait for him to come back and marry her so she could go to the city and live a good life.