A Marriage Alliance Between Two Poor Families

Name: A Marriage Alliance Between Two Poor Families
Author: Jinyan Xinyu

寒门联姻

by Jinyan Xinyu (谨言心愈)

Status: Completed
Length: 318k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Period Fiction
Updated: 8mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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A marriage arranged between two poor families ties the lives of Yang Yuxiu, an eighteen-year-old beauty in the making, and Shen Jiaxing, an idle gambler. Both families are humble and poor, and they hope the couple will settle down and live an honest life. But the gulf between their personalities and values divides them from the very day they marry.

A tiny stall selling cloth in the depths of the old street becomes the place where the couple struggle to get by. Shen Jiaxing is beyond saving, and once gambles away everything they own. Yang Yuxiu grits her teeth and hauls him into setting up a wooden board as a stall. Through sewing and mending, she barely keeps their crumbling household afloat. He swears he’ll mend his ways, but just as life begins to improve, he plunges back into the mire of gambling, crushing his wife’s hopes to pieces.

Yang Yuxiu’s heart grows cold time and time again. She tends the empty cloth stall with her heavily pregnant belly, and endures countless silent nights with a heart full of bitter disappointment, yet she never lets go of his hand. Competitors slash their prices, suppliers cut off their goods without warning, and quarrels and breakups come one after another. These hardships wear down the couple as they struggle through the daily grind, but they never manage to break them completely.

When a baby’s clear cry pierces the night, a new life arrives in a home full of cracks. That cry is both salvation and a new test. Can the former gambler truly turn over a new leaf? Can his heartbroken wife finally let go of her resentment? Amid the chaos of everyday life, how will the couple protect their little family and turn days soaked in sweat into a future brimming with hope?

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