On the day she failed the college entrance examination, Wei Hongying was promised by her stepmother to a cripple from a neighboring village in exchange for a bride price. She stole her household registration book, climbed on a coal train, ran for two hundred miles, and crashed into the gate of the military compound. The soldiers on guard stopped her from entering. She shouted at the top of her lungs: My man is Han Dongsheng, let him come out to see me! Han Dongsheng didn't know her at all. But everyone in the compound saw his wife coming to their door. If he didn't recognize her, he would be acting like a hooligan. He gritted his teeth and took her home, thinking that he would send her away in two days. But Wei Hongying mended his torn military uniform the next day, and the stitches were as thin as those made by a machine. On the third day, the steamed buns she steamed made the kid next door cry. Han Dongsheng began to think that it would be okay to keep this wife. Until one day, he found a college admission notice under her pillow.
