Eighty-Five: Forced to Remarry After a Broken Engagement, I Cut Ties With My Family

In 1985, beneath the full moon at the threshing ground.

Zhou Xiaoman clutched the wedding shoes she'd stayed up all night making, delighted to meet her childhood sweetheart, Yang Zhigang.

But from the straw hut came the tender whispers of her fiancé and her stepsister, Liu Chuntao.

He complained that she was as dull as a block of wood and promised to give her stepsister a grand wedding someday.

Zhou Xiaoman slapped him twice, tore up the engagement on the spot, and firmly called off the marriage!

She thought that once she severed this ill-fated tie, she could make her own living from then on.

She never expected that this move would enrage her stepmother.

An even bigger scheme was quietly being laid against her...