[Rugged Hero + Age Gap + Fallen Powerful Figure + Mutual Firsts]
A delicate, soft-hearted beauty who can be a bit of a ditz x a domineering crown prince who really knows his way around a gold mine
To pay her younger brother's bride price, Yu Songfu is forced to marry a miner who is old, lame, and hunchbacked!
Her whole family hopes the miner will die in the mine so they can collect a sky-high compensation payout.
When she refuses, they drug her unconscious and force her into the miner's bed.
Who could have guessed that he isn't old or lame at all, but has broad shoulders, a trim waist, and long legs!
In the tin shack beside the mine, he torments her night after night until she cries.
"Why are you crying? Are you disappointed your man hasn't died down there? If you want my compensation money, you'll have to pay a price."
"Be a good girl and have my baby, okay?"
"Little Afu, once you've taken my money, even in death, you'll still be mine."
Later, the miner really does die in the mine. Carrying the child she'd conceived, she weeps until she faints before his grave.
When she wakes, the Qiao family has taken her away and tells her that she is their true daughter, who was lost and raised elsewhere.
Everyone in Haicheng says the Qiao family's real daughter is a crude country bumpkin, unfit for polite society!
The Qiao family is ashamed of her and makes her work as a servant!
Later...
The heir of the Qin family, banished to the mines, has fought his way back!
And now the whole city is searching frantically for his runaway little wife!
