My Silver-Haired Newlywed Is the Richest Person in the Village

[Heartbreaking] [Realistic] [Not for readers under forty] [Silver-haired fiction] [Not for the fainthearted] [Late-in-life romance] The heartbreaking story of Zhen Taohua and her first love, Wu Baoguo, reuniting and falling in love again. Taohua parted ways with her first love, Wu Baoguo, to pay her younger brother's bride price. This is a late-in-life romance that explores older people's sexuality and needs, matters that often leave young people puzzled. Thirty years later, Wu Baoguo, now a billionaire CEO, meets Taohua again. He hides his identity and proposes to her, but she refuses. During their conversation, she learns that Wu Baoguo is no longer sexually capable and only wants to take care of her. Taohua turns him down. Taohua sells her house and moves in with her son. Her daughter-in-law swindles her out of the money, then kicks her out. Back in the countryside, her stepmother and younger brother look down on her, and her brother even gives her a concussion by beating her. Before returning to the city, Wu Baoguo gives Taohua the house he bought for her. The novel follows two storylines. The main one is the late-in-life romance between Zhen Taohua and Wu Baoguo, portraying the realities of romance and marriage among older people. The secondary storyline follows the love story of Zhen Taohua's daughter, Wang Yanyan, and Wu Baoguo's son, Wu Haoyu. In the end, with Taohua caring for him emotionally and physically, Wu Baoguo regains his vigor and also gets revenge on those who bullied Taohua. Plenty of face-slapping moments. His daughter Yanyan also succeeds in marrying the man she loves, and everyone gets a happy ending.