[A Little Mermaid heroine with a very busy inner monologue and a gentle hero who plays the pig to eat the tiger]
The Man and Jiang families had been intermarrying for generations, but somehow it never worked out for several generations. At last, in A Wei’s generation, she was the only daughter in her family, while the Jiang family had a posthumous son who had been sickly since childhood.
But A Wei had always wanted to marry a great hero who could ride across the battlefield and fight for his country. This sickly man was no good at either books or martial arts, and she had never even met him. Why did she have to marry someone like that?
And remembering what her father, Man Jiangbo, had said only made her feel worse.
“You won’t marry him? What right do you have to criticize anyone? Look at yourself. You can’t sew, you can’t manage a household, and you spend all day chasing cats and dogs instead of learning something useful. You’re this old and you can’t even speak clearly. Why shouldn’t you get married?”
She simply didn’t want to marry into the Jiang family. Why did he have to humiliate her like this?
She didn’t want to stay in this house anymore. She hated her unreasonable, overbearing father, who was like a giant bull. She was going to run away!
But she had been gone for only two hours when a masked man brought her back home.
A few days later, she made thorough preparations and ran away again, planning to enjoy life in Yangzhou. But before she even reached the city gate, the masked man caught her and took her home.
Was this masked man her nemesis from a past life?
A Wei really wanted to curse him out, but the angrier and more anxious she got, the less she could speak...
Back home, her mother tried to persuade her. “Every man in the Jiang family is as handsome as Pan An. Your future husband is sure to be exceptionally good-looking. You’ll definitely like him. If you meet him and don’t, I’ll take you back to my family in Yangzhou, and we won’t have to listen to your domineering father. How does that sound?”
What was so difficult about that? Most handsome men were womanizers. She had seen plenty of them and wasn’t impressed. Even if Pan An himself showed up, she wouldn’t like him.
But when the day came to meet her prospective match, no matter how A Wei looked at him, she couldn’t help thinking that this sickly Jiang family son and the masked man seemed to be the same person.
The first time Jiang Richi met Man Yuewei, he was wearing a bronze mask.
He recognized her as the Man family’s daughter, and knew that the Jiang and Man families had intermarried for generations. He also knew that Man Jiangbo had sought him out in private, saying that he didn’t mind Jiang Richi’s illness and wanted him to marry Man Yuewei.
He turned him down. The Jiang family was mired in filth, while she was already a blooming lotus. She had no need to sink into that muck.
When he learned she didn’t want the marriage and planned to run away, he was relieved. But he couldn’t let her leave home. It was too dangerous. He couldn’t just ignore it.
But as he kept looking after her, he changed his mind.
No one in the world but him was worthy of this girl!
Theme: In the end, the world will make way for your brilliance.
