[A short story. The main characters are Meng Yancheng and Xu Qin.]
Meng Yancheng and the Meng family stop shedding tears over Xu Qin, and instead he falls for Gu Qianqian, the only child of the Gu family. [Meng Yancheng is portrayed as fragile in this story.]
After Song Yan and Xu Qin get married, their life together is a chaotic, ridiculous mess.
Song Yan proposes without offering a bride price, and Xu Qin accepts a pull tab from a can as a ring...
Xu Qin’s miserable married life is brutally heartbreaking. She longs for “a life of freedom,” but is trapped in the “stifling life” of a huge house.
