Er Yin avoid the Duke as much as she can. He is seen only in his tent with occasionally yelling at Luo Ming. At night duty, she make shift duties in the tent for everyone to rotate. While she goes on patrolling the area on horses outside the camp area with a few soldiers. She try to stay away from the Duke as much as possible. Those days she think hard and see young solider couples on their days off ride off to stay with each other for the day off. She wonder what does it takes. them to fall in love. What is it like? To her, it is a luxury item that it is not reachable to her. Her life is away been practical. She always worry money for her own family members and never about herself. The only time she think of herself was in those battlefield. Did she lived the life that she want? She spend her days patrolling and thinking of it till one day a letter comes. Her brother-in-law have written that the marriage is set on a summer day and she should go home a few days earlier. She keep the news to herself and goes off to the administrative tent to apply two weeks off.
Those days before she goes off on her applied days off. She is hand a hard time at work. Er Yin is constantly criticize at whatever she did or going to do. Duke Su added more training for the female soldiers and it makes Er Yin feels bad. One of those nights, she walk into his tent and wants to reason with him. Instead she find a man wearing only his Zhong Ku and staring at her.
"Why are you here? Aren't you avoiding me?"
"I am ... not! I just ..."
"You are and now you decided to find me. Why? Do you have something you wish to say?"
He stand up and walk to her. Standing face to face they look at each other. For along time, no one speak. They only hear the sound of breathing. Suddenly he raise his hand and pull her very close to him. She feels strange like as if he is controlling her. Slowly he tilt his head and he kiss her. Er Yin did not move like a wooden doll she stand. She have mix emotion inside her and slowly she begin to feel the warm of his body. Her hands raise to touch his waist. It is something exciting that she never feel before. Like a young heart, she close her eyes to feel the emotion that is running inside her. The Duke open his eyes slightly to see her closing her eyes. He knows that she likes him For awhile they stand together kissing till suddenly she push him away and her ears are red. She wipe her lips and like frustrated. Just then a solider call her name outside of the tent. She hurry out. The Duke watch her walk out, he smile. Satify to know at least she did not reject him. Somewhere in her heart, she does like him. Like a teenager he whistle and pick up his pants that is laying on the floor. He put it on and lay down on his couch.
A few weeks later, Er Yin leave the camp. The Duke was away to the capital. Luo Ming congratulate Er Yin on the up coming wedding. He see her off as she rides towards the direction where she is going home. Reaching home, everywhere is paste with the red letters. She lead her horse to the stable and walk into the house. Her family are busy with the wedding preparation. Everyone is happy to see her. Her mother have sew a red wedding dress for her. Er Yin remove her uniform and try on the wedding dress. She look into the mirror to see a girl in a dress. Her mother cry as finally she is going to see her eldest daughter getting marry.
That day of the wedding soon arrive. Before the sunrise, the match maker comes into the house to do the bride ceremony. Before that, Er Yin have walk into the room of tablets and put her joss sticks offering. She inform every spiritual tablets that she is getting married. After her hair and makeup done, she sit on the bed to wait for her groom to fetch her. A red handkerchief is place over her head as a symbol of an unmarried woman getting ready to be a wife. Soon guest arrive at the house and she can hear all the noisy neighbours have arrived. When the sun is high up, the groom arrive in his cart and his best men. Together with the match maker they go off to his house.
Zhang Bei Ming, the groom have guests for the wedding till mid night. His daughter is tired and goes off to bed. While Er Yin continue to sit on the bed with the red handkerchief over her head. She is hungry and thirsty. Finally he appear with the matchmaker. The matchmaker gives words of couplets to the couple and preform the ritual for them to bless them with many children. Zhang Bei Ming lift up the handkerchief. After exchanging wine and biscuits. The matchmaker happily leave the room. It is all silence when suddenly Zhang Bei Ming stands up.
"I will snuff out the candle..."
The room turns dark with the window offering a little light coming in. Er Yin wonder what should she do now.
"Wife... do you want to clean up, before. we ... sleep?"
"Yes. i need to clean up and change."
"The water in the basin, you can use them. i will go outside and wash up."
"Fine."
He walk out of the room and Er Yin clean herself up. The new sleepwear is place beside the basin. She hurry to put it on and lay down on the big bed. It is not comfortable as it is not her own bed. It s also rather hard to sleep on. She toss and turn a few times and suddenly he come back into the room. She listen in the dark where he is walking and slowly he comes to the bed. He did not immediately lay down on the bed but sit on the edge. Er Yin wonder what he is doing.
"Hmm... wife are you asleep?"
Er Yin not sure if to answer him or not. She remain on her side. She feel her new husband's hands on her waist. Slowly his hand slip inside her blouse. he move up to touch her tummy. He is shock to feel a rock hard trim belly on a woman. His previous wife whom had passed away have a soft nice belly to touch. He remove his hands and slowly lay down on the bed. For a while no one move till he lay on his side and park himself near her. Er Yin can feel his heat and his belly additionally feeling his lower body. After a short while he move closer and closer. Eventually he put his hands inside her clothes and feel her body. Er Yin's body after years of training is full of muscles that are firm. Her new husband eventually cannot withstand his urge anymore. He lean up and whisper in her ears that he would like to have sex with her now. He squeeze her chest and later starts to finger her private part. Er Yin try to resit what he is doing.