[Military marriage in the 1970s and 1980s + marriage first, love later + he falls hard and chases his wife]
To pay off debts and put her younger brother through school, Su Qingya married far away in the Northeast to Lu Tiancheng, a logistics battalion commander rumored to be fearsome and to have driven two fiancées to their deaths.
On her first day there, she had already made up her mind: save enough of the bride price to divorce him, then return to her hometown and open a pickled-vegetable shop for a quiet life.
Lu Tiancheng had never cared much about the marriage. He figured he could make a life with anyone he married.
But little by little, he realized something was off.
Why were his wife's pickled vegetables getting more addictive with every bite?
How could this seemingly gentle little wife land such cutting retorts?
Why was she always hiding in her room doing the accounts, and why did it look more and more like she was saving up to run away?
When Su Qingya finally sat him down for a serious talk about divorce, the usually composed Captain Lu could no longer sit still.
“We've already got the marriage certificate. Want to leave? First ask whether these hands, the ones that have carried supplies, will let you.”
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