The villagers who tilled the land for a living in the mountainous region, after a hard day's work, fell into dreamland early.

Just over twenty years old, Xu Fei, with a pleasing appearance, cautiously poked his head out from behind a large tree less than twenty meters away from Village Chief Wang Dahu's doorstep.

Xu Fei stared at the lit window of Wang Dahu's house, his eyes burning with intense desire. Through that small window, a young man's melodious singing reached Xu Fei's ears, stirring the restless beat of his heart.

Xu Fei knew that it was the village head's wife, Yu Li, washing up. Before marrying Wang Dahu, the second-married village head, Yu Li had been an opera singer. She was beautiful and had a good singing voice, but unfortunately, after the opera troupe disbanded, she had no choice but to return to Shanhe Village. When she was 26 years old, she married Wang Dahu, who was twenty years older than her.

The people in Shanhe Village were very poor, and many young men couldn't afford to marry. Some families would buy wives from human traffickers, but the high price of 50,000 yuan deterred many. Some bachelors who couldn't afford a wife could only climb into other people's windows to listen to voices.

Of all the people who dared to go to Village Chief Wang Dahu's house to see his wife, Xu Fei was the first.

He often went up the mountains to hunt. His hands were very agile. After making sure there was no one around, Xu Fei ran quickly like a nimble cat. With a single leap, he easily climbed onto the wall of the village head's house.

He rode on the wall, his head slowly approaching that tiny window of air. His already stretched heart now beat even more violently...

"It's too much."

Xu Fei couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness in his heart. "Like Yu Li, such a swan, I'm afraid I won't be able to reach it in my lifetime."

"Tap"

Because he was too excited, Xu Fei accidentally bumped his head on that small glass window.

Huh?

As soon as Yu Li heard the quiet, she immediately raised her head and looked toward the window on the left wall. Xu Fei's face, slightly pale, appeared in Yu Li's eyes.

"Oh no, this is terrible."

When Xu Fei met Wang Yuli's eyes, his heart skipped a beat.

"Ouch!"

As expected, Yu Li's terrified shriek pierced the night sky. Xu Fei was startled and fell from the wall.

"This is a disaster. If the village head finds out, I won't have a place in this Shanhe Village anymore. Forget it, let's hide it for now. Otherwise, if the village head catches me, he'll tie me up and beat me half to death."

Ignoring the pain, Xu Fei crawled to his feet. Going home right now was tantamount to courting death, so he ran straight towards the back mountain, planning to hide there for a couple of days until the storm passed.

It was a silent night, only the sound of Xu Fei's pounding footsteps broke the stillness.

"He shouldn't be chasing after me this quickly, right?"

After running for several minutes, Xu Fei arrived at the side of a cornfield in the back mountain and half-squatted on the ground, panting heavily.

Go a little farther and you'll reach the deep mountains and old forest. There are wolves in there, so going into the mountains at night is basically a death sentence. Xu Fei plans to hide in the cornfield for one night and enter the mountains again when it gets light tomorrow.

Suddenly, a voice broke the silence in the cornfield.