[Extra sweet, with a very high sweetness level. Enter at your own risk if that's not your thing.]
Why is he so stingy?
As a child: We were really poor.
Before dating: I got used to being frugal, and had nowhere to spend it anyway.
While dating: Yaya loves money more than life. I'm afraid that if she finds out I'm rich, she'll love my money instead of me. She said... and she also said she likes that I'm stingy without realizing it.
After marriage: My dear wife took it all. Not a penny left.
In summary: The miserable life of an old man who never spent much or even saw much money in his whole life.
At twenty-eight, she goes on a blind date and meets an honest working-class man, a construction laborer of thirty, with a face black as the bottom of a pot. He looks wooden, is taciturn, and seems like the sort who couldn't get a word out of him even if you hit him with a club three times.
They meet at a cafe. He is so awkward he doesn't know what to do with himself, shifting in his seat the whole time. The only time he looks at her is when it's time to pay, and he quickly steals a glance before stammering, "I... I'll pay."
But then he pats his left pocket, then his right, rummaging for ages without finding anything.
Shi Jing wordlessly looks up at the sky.
Later, she'd completely forgotten about the whole thing. Then one day, out of the blue, she gets a careful text from the laborer: "My old ma back home likes you. She wants to meet you. Would that be all right?"
At that moment, all she wants to do is send her regards to the matchmaker: the cousin of the sister-in-law of her mother's brother's wife, the granddaughter of her great-aunt, the in-law of the neighbor next door, from the same village!
Later still, on the day before meeting her parents, the honest man, whom Shi Jing bullies without restraint, who saves money so obsessively that he eats only one boxed meal a day and never dares complain, hands her all his property deeds, bank cards, passbooks, cash, and a whole pile of shares and other assets she doesn't understand. Shi Ya pinches her own thigh desperately, feeling as though a pie has suddenly fallen from the sky and landed right on her head.
It's so good!
Dark, earthy, and stingy man vs. fair, kind beauty
Every man has potential. Good men are made through training.
A restrained man VS a realistic woman
The story of a blind date, romance, marriage, and having a baby.
Theme: The essence of ordinary little joys.
