Her Beloved Came Riding a Donkey: The Heiress and the Country Girl

Dual heroines + both sexually inexperienced + Marriage Before Love + strong leads + devoted wives A fake heiress from a wealthy family, the pursued one, VS an heir to a secluded village, the pursuer Gu Nanyi stares in shock at the donkey in front of her, and at the person holding its reins. This is her wedding. The person coming to fetch her is wearing ripped jeans, their wedding transport is a gray donkey, and the feast the whole village has scraped together includes ginseng, stewed like cabbage. Three days ago, she was the most eligible young lady in A City. Three days later, she is sitting on a donkey, marrying into a village without even a phone signal. Gu Nanyi thinks she has been cast aside by her family. But she discovers that everyone in this impoverished village is hiding a secret. The old man playing chess at the village entrance had a photo taken in his youth wearing a general’s uniform. The old woman weaving bamboo baskets casually speaks seven languages. And Feng Lingxue, the “country girl” she had expected, is quiet and extraordinarily sharp-minded. The look she gives Gu Nanyi slowly warms from cool indifference into something smoldering. The Gu family thinks marrying her off to the countryside is the worst punishment they could inflict. But here, Gu Nanyi learns to smile, discovers what it feels like to have someone protect her, and learns to take another woman’s hand on a certain night and say, “Don’t go.” Feng Lingxue doesn’t know how to say sweet things. She only knows how to do one thing: Put Gu Nanyi first. This isn’t a story about a fallen heiress and a country girl. It’s the story of a girl finding where she belongs.