The Female Butcher and the Young Beauty

(Contains elements of fantasy and a slight "golden finger" advantage; reader discretion advised.) Old Man Mu, for the sake of three acres of paddy fields and two taels of silver, decided to betroth his sixteen-year-old third daughter, Mu Dingxiang, to the widower Zhang at the end of the village. Recalling how Widower Zhang’s three previous wives had all died in succession, Mu Dingxiang would rather die than agree. That very night, she resolved to drown herself in the river, where she happened to meet Chu Yu, the female butcher who was washing clothes by the riverbank. Rumors said the female butcher had a peculiar temperament and a fondness for women, so young girls would avoid her...