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

A single notice sent Shen Qinglu, the cherished flower of Haicheng, tumbling into the loess lands of the north.

Unable to lift a hand or shoulder a load, she faced mud and hardship with more tears than sweat.

Then she met him: Lu Beizhou, the “brute” everyone in Qianjin Village avoided, a scar across his brow and few words to spare.

Everyone said a delicate girl and a lone-wolf country man were the most unlikely pair in the world.

Yet whenever she cried, he silently took over all her farm work;

when she was cold, he offered her a future with the savings he had built up over the years and the furniture he had made with his own hands.

Only then did Shen Qinglu realize that inside this cold, rough man was a whole continent of tenderness reserved 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; she took up her pen and shaped the world, becoming a celebrated author.

Together they turned their lives around, but they never forgot:

That year, beside the ox cart, he shielded her from the mud. For the rest of their lives, he stood before her, holding up a clear sky.

“Everyone says you spoiled me my whole life.”

“You saved me my whole life.”

This is a love story that began in the 1970s, a pampering romance and the mutual redemption of two souls, a legendary love that spanned half a lifetime without ever losing sight of its first devotion.