Su Qinghe, soft and lovely, was preparing to marry Shen Lu, her childhood sweetheart, when Wang Guixiang, who had grown up in the same compound, stole him away.
Out of sight, out of mind. Su Qinghe married Chen Jianzhong, a rough, discharged soldier from the neighboring village.
The village gossip said the Chen family was dirt poor. His father had died early, his mother had been sick for years, and he had a younger brother who was nothing but a burden. Chen Jianzhong was a cold, violent ex-soldier with old injuries, and no good to anyone.
Only after marrying him did she learn that while everyone else saw his coldness, he had secretly cherished her for years.
And the supposedly useless Chen Jianzhong spoiled her rotten. He wanted Su Qinghe to willingly bear him a whole bunch of children.
