[Period Setting + Marriage Swap + Rough Man Dotes on His Wife + Face-Slapping the Worst of Them + Love After Marriage]
This is not a story about an invincible heroine! The female lead is gentle and soft at first, but grows over time. She is not an invincible heroine! Not an invincible heroine!
Fang Yu's arranged military marriage was stolen by her younger female cousin. Her family then treated her like a bargaining chip to pay off a debt, marrying her off in her cousin's place to He Yuncheng, a driver at a machinery factory.
On their wedding night, the two of them put their agreement in writing: once the one hundred yuan bride price was paid back, they would register for divorce at the commune!
Everyone said Fang Yu had a hard life. She was an unlucky girl with no parents to cherish her, and her uncle and aunt had even schemed to control her marriage.
Who would have thought her husband's whole family would stand up for her? Her mother-in-law gave her meat, her eldest sister-in-law slipped her eggs, and her younger sister-in-law called her second sister-in-law her idol every day.
With her extraordinary embroidery and herbal-gathering skills, Fang Yu landed a permanent position at a clothing factory and earned a steady food ration. Her purse grew fatter by the day.
At last, she saved up one hundred yuan. Calmly, Fang Yu handed the money and divorce agreement to her husband. "We're square. Let's go get the divorce papers."
But He Yuncheng, normally as steady as a mountain, had red eyes. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her firmly into his arms.
He finally realized that the woman who had saved his life on a stormy day and fed him medicine to bring down his fever had never been Fang Ping, the woman who ran away. It had been the little wife before his eyes, whose only wish was to leave him!
He locked her tightly in his arms and pleaded through reddened eyes, "Wife, the agreement is void. I'll never divorce you, not even if it kills me!"