Su Jiaojiao opened her eyes to find she had become the most hated "spoiled wife" in Hongqi Village in the 1980s.
The original owner was lazy, greedy, and hot-tempered, and never worked in the fields. Everyone in the village was waiting to see her burly husband, Huo Shan, divorce her and send her back to her parents' home.
By the usual plot, she should have turned over a new leaf, rushed to earn work points, and won her husband's heart back by being hardworking and virtuous.
But Su Jiaojiao rubbed her chafed wrists and only sneered.
"Work in the fields? No."
"An outhouse? Not using it."
"These coarse clothes chafe, and we don't even have a bar of soap. If anyone wants to live like this, they can do it themselves."
Her mother-in-law slammed the table in fury. "Huo Shan, you have to divorce that lazy woman today!"
Su Jiaojiao didn't cry or make a scene. She packed her things and slowly headed for the door.
The next second, her husband came back from the fields, eyes red. He picked her and her bags up in one sweep and carried her back inside, his broad back blocking the door.
Huo Shan's voice was strained. "What do you want, exactly?"
Su Jiaojiao counted off on her fingers. "A flush toilet, proper cotton-blend clothes, soap, Snow Cream, and... your mother can't just scold me whenever she feels like it."
The six-foot-two farmer stared at her in silence for a long while, then bent down and wiped the mud from her feet.
"Fine."
"Don't go. I'll earn you anything you want."
Later, Huo Shan laid pipes, went into transportation, traded goods, and opened a factory. The quietest farmer in the village became the richest man of the 1980s, someone everyone tried to curry favor with.
And Su Jiaojiao leaned against him, asking at her leisure, "Boss Huo, do you think you've spoiled me too much?"
He tightened his arm around her waist, his voice low and husky. "I'd be happier if you acted up a little more."
If I had known, I would have read the comments first. Such a family is really suffocating, and everyone takes it for granted, so everyone has vested interests. Only the heroine bears everything. She has been married for two years without even having decent clothes or money, and she still has to work. In the end, the hero just doesn't care. He has to jump out and say what he was doing before when someone told him to leave.
This male protagonist looks really irritating. He is waiting for the male protagonist to do everything. He is a complete vampire. The male protagonist pays for his brother's leg treatment, food for his two children, household supplies, and the work in the fields are all waiting for the male protagonist to do it alone. I am so speechless. The dialogue in the article feels very human-like