In the 1980s, She Was Married Off in Her Sister’s Place to a Disabled Man, Yet Thrived

Lin Jing’s birth mother died in childbirth.

From then on, Lin Jing was branded a jinx.

Two years later, her father remarried. Though still a little girl, Lin Jing had to scrape by under her stepmother’s thumb.

She was beaten and scolded, and never had enough to eat or warm clothes to wear.

At last, she grew up, and a matchmaker introduced her to a good man. She thought marriage would free her from her misery.

Instead, her stepmother plotted against her again, and her stepsister stole the good match.

But people can’t outwit fate.

On the eve of her stepsister’s wedding, her fiancé lost his lower leg in a work accident.

Her stepmother couldn’t let her own daughter marry a disabled man, so she immediately went to break off the engagement.

But the fiancé’s mother threatened to hang herself outside Lin Jing’s father’s factory if they dared call off the wedding.

To keep her stepsister from marrying a cripple, her stepmother threatened Lin Jing’s father with divorce and forced Lin Jing to take her stepsister’s place and marry into the Chen family.

And so Lin Jing married a disabled man.

Fortunately, the Chen family was well-off.

Outsiders saw Lin Jing living comfortably and said she’d finally made it through her hardships.

But that was only a fine-looking front. Only Lin Jing knew how hard things really were.

After all, even living with a healthy person isn’t easy, and daily life is bound to bring friction. How much more difficult it is to share a life with someone whose body is impaired...