The Man with Six Marriages

Name: The Man with Six Marriages
Author: Little Pear Blossom O

六婚男人

by Little Pear Blossom O (小梨花O)

Status: Completed
Length: 301k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Period Fiction
Updated: 1y ago
Source: Fanqie

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A marriage spanning half a century, full of ups and downs, and one man's six sorrowful, blood-stained journeys into wedlock. In the late 1970s, at a state-owned coal mine in Northeast China, Kim Dazhuang, an ethnic Korean Chinese who had returned from Korea, was tall and burly, with a fiery temper. He sweated through his work amid the roar of steam locomotives. Over the course of his life, he went through six marriages. Each time, he entered with hope, only for almost every one to end in heartbreak. First marriage: Park Shunyu, a quiet, long-suffering Korean wife who bore him a son and a daughter, but finally left in despair after enduring repeated domestic abuse. Second marriage: Lin Xiumei, an educated, gentle divorcée and teacher. Their five-year marriage ended peacefully because of the gulf between their inner worlds. Third marriage: Wang Fengxia, a shrewd, calculating widow who brought her children to live with him, then one day, while he was away, emptied the house and left without even taking the dog. Fourth marriage: Liu Yanhong, a glamorous woman he met at the mahjong table. She was passionate as a flame, but when he least expected it, she ran off with another man. Fifth marriage: Sun Guifen, an unmarried woman of fifty, a so-called “old maid” with an extreme temperament who would threaten to “poison him” at the drop of a hat, keeping him in fear every day. By the time he was sixty-six, Jin Dazhuang had completely given up on marriage. Then his nephew introduced him to Cui Mingshu, an ethnic Korean woman who was not yet fifty. Quiet and reserved, she warmed his broken remaining years with the simplest, most thoughtful acts. He drifted through half a lifetime and entered marriage six times, coming away battered and bruised five times. Only at the end did he understand: True happiness is not about grand gestures. It is having someone willing to simmer a bowl of hot soup for you in the depths of winter…

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