Reborn Once: I Won't Be a Pawn in a Marriage Swap Again

After waking from a nightmare, Ye Qiaotao was reborn into the resource-scarce years after liberation. In her previous life, her brother Ye Guoqing could not afford a wife, so he traded his own younger sister, Ye Qiaotao, in a marriage exchange to get himself a bride. The girl exchanged for Ye Qiaotao was Shi Qianran from a neighboring village. She had a bedridden mother and an older brother, Shi Shaoheng, who spent most of the year away serving in the army. In her previous life, after Ye Qiaotao married into the Shi family, she and Shi Shaoheng, her husband, had not even consummated their marriage when he hurriedly left because something had come up with his unit. He left without giving Ye Qiaotao a single cent. All he left her was his bedridden, ill-tempered mother. To survive, Ye Qiaotao had no choice but to toil in the fields every day, scraping together a living, and gather herbs in the mountains to support her impoverished household. Five years later, after her mother-in-law, Shi, passed away, Ye Qiaotao took the fifteen yuan she had painstakingly saved and went to the army base to find her husband, Shi Shaoheng, whom she had not seen once in five years. But when she finally managed to find Shi Shaoheng at the base, she discovered that her husband, who had been away from home for five years, had married someone else four years earlier. Since they had no marriage certificate, Shi Shaoheng refused to acknowledge that he and Ye Qiaotao were married. Without a marriage certificate, their marriage naturally came to nothing. With nowhere else to turn, Ye Qiaotao had no choice but to return to her family home. But when she got back, she discovered that Shi Qianran, the girl exchanged for her, had run away the day after Ye Qiaotao's wedding.