When Su Wei woke up, she had become the most miserable sacrificial character in a novel set in the 1970s.
Her own mother promised her to an old bachelor who had beaten two wives to death, all to get a bride price for her younger brother. Her cousin used her to curry favor with the educated youths, while the whole village waited to laugh as she was sold into a living hell.
Su Wei smiled.
That very night, right in front of her mother, she hurled the bag of "payment for selling herself" to the ground.
The next day, the old bachelor called off the engagement himself, then spent half the night cursing at her cousin's family.
On the third day, the village's notorious "crazy thug" came to see her and asked, "What do you have in your hands?"
Su Wei pulled a yellowed notice from her clothes:
"I'll trade you the news that the college entrance exams are being reinstated for the denunciation letter you have. Deal?"
