[1980s] [Entrepreneurship and Getting Rich] [Whirlwind Marriage] [Love After Marriage] [Everyday Family Life]
Everyone in Fu'an Alley had heard the saying: No man should marry Xu Qingning, the crazy girl who paints, and no woman should marry Fang Zhiyuan, the poor carpenter who planes wood!
In a desperate attempt to find them both spouses, a matchmaker paired up these two over-age holdouts. The whole alley waited eagerly to laugh when they split up after three days.
But the two registered their marriage on the spot and tied the knot in record time!
Faced with greedy in-laws who wanted to bleed them dry and a snobbish ex who mocked them, the young couple shut the door and made a deal: pretend to be poor and lie flat in public, quietly make money behind closed doors!
No one knew that Xu Qingning, who seemed carefree, sold her designs to all the major clothing factories. A single drawing earned what others made in half a year.
Nor did anyone know that Fang Zhiyuan, who seemed wooden, had a secret mastery of nail-free joinery. A single trip flipping old furniture earned him over a thousand yuan!
By the time their greedy relatives caught on, this couple, the most looked-down-upon "poor paupers" in the whole alley, had already teamed up to open a huge factory, snapped up plots of land, and bought an entire courtyard house. They had quietly risen to become the era's richest people!
