The Whole Village Calls Me Shameless, but the Younger Roughneck Loves Me to Tears

The year Su Guixiang turned thirty-eight, her world fell apart.

Her husband was injured in an accident at the mine, suffering a shattered lumbar spine. He would spend the rest of his life bedridden and paralyzed.

With three children to feed, her mother-in-law pointed at her and called her a jinx. Her eldest son was ashamed of her, and her brother-in-law tricked and coaxed her out of the mine’s compensation money.

Su Guixiang neither cried nor made a scene. With the family’s last two hundred yuan in her pocket, she set up a wonton stall outside the mine gates.

Everyone in town laughed at the poor woman struggling to raise three children, until one day Han Tiezhu, the coal-truck crew leader rumored to be ruthless and hot-tempered, strode up to her stall.