[Historical Romance + Strong Heroine + Dealing with Terrible Relatives + Raising Children + Making Money + Marriage Before Love + Farming + Face-slapping + Feel-Good Power Fantasy + Inspirational]
“Sell this barren good-for-nothing to Zhao the Butcher for eight taels of silver!”
Pressed by her own mother, Huaixu had nowhere left to turn. At the most critical moment, Shen Changfeng, a taciturn military household soldier, stepped forward. “I’ll marry this woman.”
But on the second day after their wedding, her husband left for the border, leaving behind a parasitic mother-in-law, lazy sisters-in-law, and two stepdaughters who were skin and bones.
“Now that that wretch is gone, just watch how I deal with you!” Her mother-in-law rummaged through the chests, demanding every last coin she had.
Everyone was waiting to see Huaixu be tormented to death.
Yet no one could have imagined that she possessed the long-lost art of “Five-Color Pattern-Locking” fabric dyeing.
She dipped a white handkerchief into the dye vat. When she lifted it out, the five-colored patterns shimmered brilliantly, stunning the entire town in an instant.
From small handkerchiefs to bolts of cloth, Huaixu’s fingers cracked from the dyes, but she earned silver in return.
When she bought the largest fabric shop in town, her mother-in-law fell to her knees, wailing and begging her not to split up the family.
Counting her banknotes, Huaixu gave a cold laugh. “Too late.”
The two little ones tugged at her clothes, their eyes sparkling as they called her “Mother.” Meanwhile, far away at the border, Shen Changfeng was riding home, bearing unparalleled glory and a secret identity.
