Reborn in the 1970s: I Became Famous After Marrying the Commander in a Substitute Marriage

Only after Shen Hengqiu died did she learn just how much the Chen family had stolen from her throughout her life.

The twelve years of letters her birth father had sent were hidden away at the bottom of a cabinet by her adoptive mother, one by one.

The money her father had left her was spent down to the last coin by the Chen family.

Even her real name had been replaced for nineteen years by the words, “Erni is easy to raise.”

And the only chance she ever had to escape the Chen family was after her elder sister ran away from her wedding, when they pushed Shen Hengqiu forward to take her place as the bride of He Lichuan, the officer rumored to have no interest in women.

But in her previous life, she had been too frightened and insecure.

In the end, she destroyed that marriage with her own hands.

When she opened her eyes again, she was back three days before her elder sister eloped.

This time, Mother Chen threw the wedding dress in front of her again.

“Your sister’s run off. You’re marrying him instead!”

Everyone waited for her to cry.

But Shen Hengqiu slowly raised her head.

“I’ll marry him.”

“But first, give me back my household registration, my money, and everything my father left me.”

Everyone said He Lichuan was cold-hearted and had no interest in women.

Shen Hengqiu believed it too.

So after they married, she felt free to paint, read, take the college entrance exam, and earn money from her writing. She went from painting for the military compound’s bulletin board to working with publishers and art academies, until her work reached the whole country.

Then, one night, the man who had always slept in the study blocked her beside her easel and asked in a low voice:

“Shen Hengqiu.”

“Who told you I couldn’t?”

Later, the Chen family regretted everything, and her runaway elder sister was consumed with jealousy. But all those who had waited to see her make a fool of herself could only watch helplessly as

The country girl who once couldn’t even hold on to her own name painted herself, stroke by stroke, into the most dazzling woman of her era.