The 1970s: The Sweet Young Wife Who Brings Her Husband Good Fortune

[Sweet and clever village beauty x cold-faced, devoted tough guy]

Su You is the famous beauty of Shifang Village. She’s been cherished since childhood and is as lovely as a flower. She never works in the fields, spending her days at home with her head buried in her studies.

The villagers all tell her she might as well find a good man and get married, but Su You doesn’t agree.

Then, because of a misunderstanding, the whole village spreads a rumor that she secretly met with another man and lost her virtue. Left with no choice, Su You marries Zhou Lü, the village’s famously penniless bachelor.

The villagers privately mock her, thinking that’s all her life will ever amount to...

“Youyou, I’m home!”

After finishing business negotiations out of town, Zhou Lü heads straight home. Su You is sitting in their courtyard in the capital, preparing lesson plans. Seeing the bags from all the luxury stores in Zhou Lü’s hands, she holds back a scolding and says, “What a spendthrift!”

Zhou Lü pulls her into his arms. His gaze and voice are so sweet they’re almost cloying. “Spoiling my wife isn’t being a spendthrift!”

Everyone: “...”