(Rural life in a bygone era + family squabbles + no golden finger + marriage before love + everyday cooking + healing each other)
At nineteen, Xu Zhaoxi was driven into a corner.
Her mother called her crude and slow-witted, and let the neighbors try to pair her off with foolish men and old bachelors. In the end, she even forced her to marry a divorced, wife-beating veteran.
Her grandfather paid lip service to “harmony in the family brings prosperity to all” and just tried to keep the peace. Her father devoted himself entirely to the production team. Her older sister lived under someone else’s roof, and her younger brother was powerless to help.
It all stemmed from an accident when she was six.
Afterward, although her blindness had only been temporary, her mother kept her at home on the grounds that she was “half blind,” allowing only her older sister and younger brother to attend school.
If she couldn’t live with dignity in this family, then she’d find another way to live!
She had to marry someone either way, so Xu Zhaoxi steeled herself: she’d marry that divorced veteran!
At their first meeting, the man sat ramrod straight and solemnly laid down the terms:
“To the outside world, we’ll be engaged. At home, we’ll each do our own thing. In three years, if you want to leave, I’ll let you go. I won’t pester you.”
Xu Zhaoxi thought she’d landed an incredible bargain. Little did she know the man was a secretly flirtatious drama queen.
With a home of her own, she rolled up her sleeves and put her cooking skills to work, making their life better and better in an era of scarcity.
When their three-year agreement expired, she was just about to ask to leave when he grinned roguishly and pulled her into his arms, his eyes full of sly affection.
“Leave? Not a chance. You’re out of luck for the rest of your life. Now that you’ve crossed my threshold, you’re mine for good.”
No one protected you before. From now on, I will.
Only when she accidentally uncovered the shocking secret her mother had kept hidden for years did she realize that all the hardships she had endured for over a decade had stemmed from a misunderstanding her mother had insisted on believing when she was six.
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