Li Xiuyu was originally named Li Zhaodi.
When she was seventeen, her parents wanted to marry her off to an intellectually disabled man from the neighboring village. No matter how desperately she pleaded, she couldn't change their minds. Just as she was resigning herself to her fate, her childhood sweetheart, Zheng Gongcheng, a handsome and brilliant student, offered to elope with her.
“Zhaodi, how about we run away together?”
Li Xiuyu stared at him in a daze, her lips moving soundlessly.
Her parents had raised her to be meek and submissive, so her first instinct was to avoid the idea. Yet inside, she felt as if she were being scorched by fire.
She didn't understand any grand principles, but she knew this was the only hope she could grasp. She couldn't bear to be married off to an intellectually disabled man, spend her life toiling, and die an untimely death. She couldn't accept it!
As if possessed, she reached out and took Zheng Gongcheng's hand.
It turned out she had made the right choice. Zheng Gongcheng was a diamond in the rough, and even after they moved to the big city, he quickly found a way to make a living. They lived happily together, and eventually had a child.
But fate always liked to play tricks. Zheng Gongcheng died, leaving no body behind.
Years of living in comfort had made her dependent as a trailing vine. After Zheng Gongcheng died, she had no one to rely on and could only weep in misery. She even depended on her five-year-old son to manage their daily life.
Just then, someone told her she was actually the Ji family's biological daughter...
Three years after becoming the Ji family's heiress, after she had become another man's mistress, the man who had been confirmed dead suddenly returned...
# A brainless Mary Sue story, romances in stages, love and desire
# A dependent trailing vine early on, with a career later
# Complete, short story
