Siheyuan: Breaking Off the Engagement Felt Great, Now I Regret It to the Bone

Cao Yang transmigrates to a courtyard house and meets Qin Huairu, who is still unmarried, while the educated youths are being sent to the countryside.

He boldly beats Jia Dongxu to the punch and takes her virginity. He had hoped to settle down with a wife and children in a warm home.

But Jia Zhangshi talks Qin Huairu around, and she marries Jia Dongxu for nothing more than a sewing machine and ten yuan in bride price.

After the wedding, Jia Dongxu is lazy and gluttonous, and injures himself in an accident caused by drinking.

To feed the whole family, Qin Huairu has no choice but to take over Jia Dongxu's job, starting out as an apprentice.

By then, Cao Yang has already returned to the city and become the youngest engineer at the steel mill.

He earns more than Yi Zhonghai and eats meat at every meal.

His life grows better and better, while Qin Huairu regrets her choice bitterly. "I was such a fool, really. If only I'd married Cao Yang back then..."

Smelling the aroma of stewed meat drifting from the back courtyard, she can no longer hold back her tears.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.