From Short-Lived Farm Girl to Demolition Millionaire in the 1990S

[Period drama + heroine's growth + romance + slow burn] Xie Wei's third brother needs five hundred yuan for his bride's dowry, but the family also owes three hundred yuan to He the Mason. To pay off the debt, her family plans to marry her off to He the Mason's son in exchange. Afraid she'll refuse, they intend to register the marriage for her first and tell her afterward. By chance, Xie Wei learns of her family's plans from her cousin Xie Jiao, who has been reborn. Unwilling to be married off like a piece of merchandise to settle a debt, Xie Wei runs away under cover of night. But she doesn't get far. She's discovered by Huo Chengfeng, an officer from the capital. Huo Chengfeng is a fellow soldier of Xie Wei's fourth uncle, who is from another branch of the family. Xie Wei calls him Uncle Huo. The first time they meet, Xie Wei falls into the water, and he gives her artificial respiration. The second time, he finds the letter asking for a marriage proposal that Xie Wei had asked her best friend to deliver. The third time, he catches Xie Wei trying to run away in the middle of the night. Huo Chengfeng goes to his fellow soldier's hometown on business. When he returns, he brings a young woman with him and leaves her at home as a maid. When Xie Wei first arrives in the capital, she has only twenty yuan to her name. Her mother has already taken an advance on all of her wages for the year, supposedly because she has gone away to work. She expects to struggle through the whole year, but who knew there would be so many opportunities in the city? She earns a little here and a little there, and before she knows it, she's become a ten-thousand-yuan household. With money in hand, Xie Wei buys a house on the outskirts of the capital. It's run-down and in a remote area, but she finally has a home. Just as she's getting ready to fix it up, the demolition notice arrives. The place is going to be torn down. She's become one of the first generation to profit from demolition. Now there's a young woman in the household. At first, Huo Chengfeng tells everyone that she's his fellow soldier's niece and has her call him Uncle Huo. Later, he does everything he can to get her to call him Brother Chengfeng instead. And later still, he tells her: “I only love once! Just like the gun in my hand, my sights will always be fixed on one target.”