We're All from the Bride's Family

The heroine’s parents die in a fire. Twenty years later, their only daughter gets married. She thinks no one will be there to see her off, but when word of the wedding spreads, villagers from miles around come to send her off. Who says a girl has no family on her side? This is a rural novel about family bonds and ethics, reflecting the profound emotions of the older generation. Those who lived through turbulent times and the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement value their relationships above all. The heroine plans to walk down the aisle alone in her wedding dress, but the village elders, uncles, and other men, though not related to her by blood, each bring gifts and take the place of her parents in sending her off. The hero bullies her, thinking she has no family to back her up. The villagers arrive with a grand wedding procession stretching for miles, giving the hero and his family a taste of their own medicine. At the engagement banquet, relatives keep appearing, all shouting in unison: “We’re all her family!”