The 1980s: The Roughneck Gets Himself Sterilized to Win His Way Up

[Era Setting] [Rural Life] [Clear-Eyed Woman Building a Career] [Rugged Wolfdog Hero] [Size Difference] [Pocket Dimension]

On her wedding night, her husband elopes with his childhood sweetheart, leaving Su Banxia the village's laughingstock, a "widow in all but name."

Her mother-in-law makes life difficult, a lecherous old bachelor sets his sights on her, and the vicious rumors seem determined to drive her to jump into the river.

Su Banxia sneers. "What's a man worth? Making money is what matters!" After binding herself to a plant-growing space, she leases a mountain and grows medicinal herbs, determined to become the village's first household with ten thousand yuan in savings!

But Lu Ye, the retired soldier next door with a fearsome reputation, is looking at her more and more strangely.

In the medicinal fields late at night, he traps her between his arms, his scorching breath brushing her ear. "Banxia, he ran off. You don't have to wait for him. Be with me. I'll give you my life!"

Su Banxia presses a sickle to his chest. "I only want money, not a man."

He chuckles, takes hold of the blade, and draws it toward his heart. "Fine. I'll be your ox and horse. Point me where you want, and I'll charge in. But if anyone dares get in the way of you making money, I'll cripple them!"

Later, the whole village is stunned. That ruthless, fearsome man not only does his wife's laundry in the middle of the night and buys her toilet paper, but also becomes the first man in the village to get a vasectomy so she won't have to suffer through childbirth!