ongoingI Never Play by the Rules
朕從不按套路出牌
Transmigrated into a destitute village girl in chaotic times, with all able-bodied men dead, Du Shanu is forced to take a husband. Six men of unknown origins and varying looks stand in a line—a lame rough blacksmith, a gloomy handsome scholar, a disfigured insecure mute, a weak widower with a child, a sweet little puppy who calls her sister, and… that overly beautiful, always downcast blind sickly seedling. The village elders demand she choose one to marry. Du Shanu glances over this ragtag bunch of “the old, weak, sick, and disabled,” and declares bluntly: “What to choose? I’ll take all six.” In these troubled times, an extra mouth means extra strength, an extra person means an extra path. Seven bowls of wild vegetable porridge, a few torn straw mats—scraped together into a tottering “home.”" Check pronouns: Du Shanu is female, we used "she" in "Du Shanu is forced". Good. For the six men, we used male descriptors: "a lame rough blacksmith", "a gloomy handsome scholar", "a disfigured insecure mute", "a weak widower with a child", "a sweet little puppy who calls her sister", "that overly beautiful, always downcast blind sickly seedling". The last could