The First Book by Drawing a Big Pie

Lin Wanqing married into the Lu family three years ago. She worked tirelessly, doing the work of an ox and a horse, yet because her husband spent all year away for work, she was forced to live like a widow for three years.

Then one day, while delivering grain to town, she saw with her own eyes the husband who was always complaining about her holding a pampered city girl in his arms, showering her with affection.

That wasn't all. Her in-laws sneered at her too, despising her as a country bumpkin who couldn't bear children.

No golden finger, no vast fortune to fall back on: Lin Wanqing flew into a rage and overturned the table!

Whoever wants to live like a widow can do it themselves! Whoever wants that scumbag can have him!

With her clever hands and hard work, she gathered mountain produce and made food to sell, building a thriving life in the countryside of the 1970s.

But why did Shen Zheng, the fierce, rough man from the neighboring village, whose fearsome reputation made everyone wary of him, keep turning up at her side?

The roof at home was leaking? He carried thatch over and fixed it in the middle of the night.

She ran into a wild boar in the mountains? He knocked it out with one punch, skinned it, roasted the meat, and offered it to her.

Everyone in the village called Lin Wanqing a cast-off, a secondhand woman, but Shen Zheng placed everything he owned in her hands. Blushing, he said gruffly, “Wanwan, I’d give you my life. Will you be with me?”

Later, her scumbag ex-husband's life fell into utter chaos. He knelt in the mud, weeping and begging her to take him back.