[Nineties setting + Substitute marriage for good fortune + Powerful man pretending to be crippled + Secret identities on both sides + Settling accounts and face-slapping + Marriage first, love later + Building wealth]
After four years of betrothal, Tang Guo sold pigs and sunflower seeds to put her fiancé through college.
In return, he brought a city girl home and said, "She's a distant relative of the family."
Tang Guo took out a box of remittance slips. "Four thousand eight hundred and sixty. Let's round it up to five thousand."
The whole scumbag's family was dumbfounded.
Then her uncle tried to make her take the fall and marry in place of her cousin, to bring good fortune to the supposedly wheelchair-bound Gu family man in Liuhe Town.
Tang Guo crossed her legs. "I'll take her place, but let's settle the accounts first."
The groom sat in a wheelchair and immediately said, "I'm not marrying you."
Tang Guo shoved the wheelchair over the threshold. "I married a person, not his legs!"
From then on, she collected debts, took on jobs, and ran a brick kiln, vowing to earn enough to pay for her husband's treatment.
She had no idea that the "cripple" she'd pushed thirty miles was Mr. Gu, a nouveau riche millionaire who had returned from Shenzhen.
She was pretending to be her cousin, and he was pretending to be crippled. Both of them were masters of the act.
On the day they returned to her family home, the scumbag mocked her in front of everyone. "Married to a cripple, you'll be wiping his shit for the rest of your life!"
The next moment, a car sent by the county to pick up "Mr. Gu from Shenzhen" drove into the village.
The man in the wheelchair stood up.
The scumbag's legs went weak, and his father-in-law called off the engagement on the spot.
What? The scumbag regrets it and wants to get back together?
Tang Guo flicked her abacus beads. "The engagement's already off. Who wants to get back together? Settle the bill first!"
