The Pampered Sweetheart of the Seventies: The Rough-Hewn Man’s Little Darling

One official notice sent Shen Qinglu, the lovely flower of Haicheng, to the yellow earth of the north. She could barely lift a hand or shoulder a load, and faced with mud and hardship, she shed more tears than sweat. Then she met him: Lu Beizhou, the “Demon” everyone in Qianjin Village avoided, a taciturn man with a scar across his brow. Everyone said a pampered young woman and a lone-wolf farmer were the least likely match in the world. Yet whenever she cried, he silently took over all her farmwork. Whenever she was cold, he offered her a future, with his hard-earned savings and the furniture he had made with his own hands. Only then did Shen Qinglu realize that within this stern, rough man’s heart lay a whole world made soft just for her. When the spring thunder of the restored college entrance exams rang out and the tide of reform and opening-up surged forward, he shed his coarse clothes and became a business legend, while she took up her pen and became a celebrated author. Together, they turned their lives around, but they never forgot: That year, beside the ox cart, he shielded her from the muddy spray. In this life, he was always there in front of her, holding up a clear sky. “Everyone says you spoiled me your whole life.” “You saved me my whole life.” This is a tender romance that began in the 1970s, the mutual salvation of two souls, and a love story that spans half a lifetime without ever forgetting its beginnings.