The Moon Deep in the Cornfield

Name: The Moon Deep in the Cornfield
Author: Yan Su You Ni

玉米地深处的月亮

by Yan Su You Ni (眼粟有妮)

Status: Completed
Length: 121k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Period Fiction
Updated: 6mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Synopsis

That summer, her new husband publicly insulted her, saying she “looked like an eggplant.” She grabbed her bundle and ran away in the middle of the night.

Su Caiying sat on the edge of the kang until well past midnight. Instead of a wedding night, all she got was humiliation. By morning, the whole village knew that the new bride of the Liu family was “bad luck for her husband.” Her man had run off on their wedding night.

When the family split up, she was given half a sack of dried sweet potatoes, a chipped iron pot, and an earthen house crawling with mice. One starving night, she went to steal melons from the eastern ravine, only to be caught red-handed by a taciturn bachelor.

He didn't hit or scold her. He took a large, dark-skinned watermelon from the melon patch and shoved it into her arms. “Take it and go.”

It wasn't until Liu Laowai leaned through her window that the man straddled him and beat him until his face was covered in blood. She pulled him inside to wash his hands. Suddenly, he asked, “Can I give you a hug?”

Once he held her, he never let go.

But this world had no room for stolen sweetness. Her ex-husband, Liu Dazhuang, came back, clutching the red ribbon she'd left in the cornfield and shouting “Caught in the act!” throughout the village. The village chief tried to mediate, the police lectured them on the law, and officials came from the county to investigate. These two wretched souls were ground into the dirt time and again.

On a full-moon night, deep in the cornfield, two people cast aside by fate, in the clumsiest and most primal way...

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