Awakening, I Refuse to Be a Stepmom: I Marry a Rough-Hewn Man and Become a Tycoon

In 1978, Su Jinxiu went on a blind date and met a military officer stationed nearby, the envy of everyone around her.

They all said she was lucky. All she had to do was marry him, and she would have a secure life as an army wife.

But when she looked into him on her own, she discovered that he had hidden the fact that he was raising five adopted children.

This was no blind date at all. He was looking for a free nanny who would even pay for the privilege out of her own wages.

At the engagement banquet, Su Jinxiu flipped the table and called off the wedding on the spot, becoming the laughingstock of the whole county.

Her awful parents thought she had disgraced them and tried to sell her to a forty-year-old cripple in exchange for a bride price.

She grabbed her household registration booklet and ran away from home without hesitation. Then she set her sights on a taciturn, rugged veteran selling wild mountain produce at the market.

She gritted her teeth and asked if he dared to marry her. The man blushed to the tips of his ears and handed over everything he owned: sixty-two yuan.

Everyone waited to laugh at her for living on scraps.

But a few years later, that rugged man who sold mountain produce had risen to become a tycoon and the richest man around.

Her former fiancé, crammed into a crumbling tiled house with the five children who were a constant drain on him, watched Su Jinxiu sitting in a car, his eyes bloodshot with jealousy.

How had the woman who called off their engagement gotten richer and richer?