The Sickly Beauty and the Butcher’s Knife

Yu Li transmigrates into the body of a peasant girl sold off by her own family to marry a sickly scholar from the same village in a bid to improve his fortunes. At first, she assumes the marriage is just for show and that her real role would be to act as a maid in the scholar’s household. However, to her surprise, she finds herself truly becoming his wife, with the authority to manage the household—and finally having consistent meals instead of worrying about her next. It doesn’t take long for her to discover that the scholar’s family is just as poverty-stricken, barely scraping by. As Yu Li looks at her bedridden husband—his ethereal features tinged with a sickly blush that lends him an ...