The 1980s Factory Director and His Secretly Married Sweetheart

Lin Xiaoyan, a worker at a textile factory, is forced to marry in her younger sister’s place. But when she lifts the red bridal veil, she’s stunned: the groom is Gu Tingchen, the director of the agricultural machinery factory, the man every girl in town is fighting to marry!

Everyone laughs at her for thinking a sparrow can become a phoenix. Only she knows this is a secret marriage contract that must never come to light.

But who could have guessed that the stern-faced director would spoil her rotten? He gives her the ration coupons he’s saved, takes her to the hospital in the rain in the middle of the night, and even mends the holes in her work clothes himself!

When the cafeteria aunties gossip that she’s married into a higher station, he pushes an enamel bowl in front of her and says in full view of everyone, “She’s my wife. I’m happy to provide for her.”

She gradually falls for him, but forgets that the contract will eventually expire.

When she clutches a divorce application and prepares to leave, the man suddenly pins her against the woodshed. His rough palm brushes over the reddened corner of her eye. “Who said you could call off our marriage?”

A marriage certificate stamped in bright red slips from his pocket. It turns out this secret marriage was always a tender trap he had planned from the start...