Chen Ning's Wedding Date

After Ning Qingyun’s mother died, her father remarried in less than six months.

He treated her like dead weight and couldn’t wait to marry her off.

He arranged a match for her with an eighteen-year-old man who had no parents, no steady job, and came from the countryside. Apart from being around her age, he had nothing going for him.

On her wedding day, Ning Qingyun traveled farther than she ever had before. In front of a shabby old tiled-roof house, she met the man she was to marry.

The matchmaker chirped beside them, “Jinshan, come take a look at the wife your auntie found for you. She’s such a pretty girl!”

The man’s expression was icy, and he didn’t even glance at her. “Send her back where she came from. I don’t want her.”

With nowhere else to go, Ning Qingyun dutifully learned how to be a good wife, how to obey and serve her husband. Gradually, she began to feel a hint of tenderness beneath Chen Jinshan’s cold exterior, and thought that perhaps life with a man like him could work.

Then one day, Chen Jinshan’s rumored childhood sweetheart appeared, and a conflict broke out between her and Ning Qingyun. Chen Jinshan said, “I’ve spoiled you rotten, haven’t I? Who do you think you are? Learn your place, or get out.”