Her parents favor sons over daughters, her younger siblings are lazy and greedy, her family is dirt poor, and she is gravely ill… Just when Chu Jinyu thinks this hellish hard mode couldn’t get any worse, fate plays another cruel joke: her own mother sells her to a cripple from their village as a child bride!
Chu Jinyu gives a bitter smile. “Who could possibly have it worse than me?”
After all that misery, Chu Jinyu stubbornly gets back on her feet. She vows to be impossible to kill, kicks her parasitic birth family to the curb, puts her troublesome in-laws in their place, and throws herself into making money. Her motto is simple: My fate is mine to control, not Heaven’s!
As for her sharp-tongued, awkward, and utterly childish crippled husband, Chu Jinyu snorts. “From today on, you’re my child husband!”
Lu Huaiyu: “Hmph.”
He has been paralyzed since childhood, and his mother secretly arranged for him to marry an ugly girl. She’s loud, completely lacking in proper womanly virtue, and spends all day trying to boss her husband around.
The whole world’s gone backward!
Lu Huaiyu fumes with indignation and vows to fight back. He loses, tries again, and loses again.
From obscurity to the highest position in government, as the years pass, Lu Huaiyu learns to lie flat. The powerful official who rules the court is, at home, the very picture of a devoted husband.
Everyone says the prime minister is hopelessly devoted to his wife, and they all ask Madame Prime Minister for advice.
Chu Jinyu thinks long and hard. “Maybe, just maybe, you have to start by picking a fight with your husband?”
