Blurb One:
At twenty-four, Kong Qing married Liang Huaiqin.
At the time, Kong Qing still felt that they barely knew each other.
Liang Huaiqin, who came from a prestigious family, had married a woman who had once been a country girl. Many people said she had risen in status thanks to her mother. She had heard it so often that she could only smile. Thinking back on the past, she had to admit they weren't entirely wrong.
It was 2015. Seventeen-year-old Kong Qing saw her mother, Jiang Mei, again.
That same year, Jiang Mei brought her to Xi'an. By then, she had remarried Tan Yin, the head of the Tan family.
Just like that, Kong Qing went from a little girl in a remote mountain village to the Tan family's stepdaughter, then used the Tan family's connections to marry into the Liang family.
On the day they registered their marriage, Liang Huaiqin stayed silent for a long time before finally saying, "When it comes to ruthlessness and playing your cards, I'm nowhere near your level."
Blurb Two:
One day after they were married, Kong Qing went with him to the Liang family home for dinner.
After the meal, the elders gathered to chat. When they brought up the couple, Huaiqin's grandmother teased her, "Huaiqin has always doted on you. You two really are a match made in heaven."
Kong Qing simply smiled and let the comment pass.
On the way home, Liang Huaiqin suddenly said, "Grandmother isn't one to make things up."
When he spoke again, there was a hint of grievance in his voice. "You hate me. You have all sorts of prejudices against me."
Liang Huaiqin had always known: she had hated him long before they got married.
What he didn't know was that even Kong Qing herself only realized years later that it was never him she hated. It was the rain that had poured for so long without ever letting up.
Revised March 22, 2026. Saved excerpt.
Theme: Every struggle is a step toward growing upward
