1. In the winter of 2002, Li Chunying was a senior in high school when her homeroom teacher sent her home to get her tuition money.
Her father, who loved singing, had just built himself a karaoke room.
As he paid the workers, he bit down on his cigarette and said, "Where's the money supposed to come from? Sending you to school has made your old man broke."
That evening, Li Chunying pushed her battered bicycle along the riverbank for a long time.
A young bricklayer who had just collected 300 yuan in wages from her family whistled at her. "Big shot poet, help me write a love letter, will you?"
And so she earned her first writing fee: 300 yuan.
From then on, she never asked her family for another cent.
That was because Zhang Dongming kept asking her to write love letters for him from time to time.
This arrangement continued until she got into college.
2. Later, her father promised her to Zhang Dongming, who had become a small-time business owner, so he could find a wife for his son.
That day, she deliberately invited a lot of her college classmates to her home. They talked late into the night about poetry, literature, and matters of great importance.
After everyone had left, she sat cross-legged on a chair and watched Zhang Dongming tidy up the candy wrappers and fruit peels. Then she asked, "Do you think we're a good match?"
3. Years later, Li Chunying returned to her hometown to expand her business.
By then, she was a branch-school principal desperate for results, while he was a business tycoon who could call all the shots.
To wrest a prime location for her school from a competitor, she agreed to his outrageous demand.
That night, she held nothing back. He sat on the sofa with one leg crossed over the other, looked her up and down, then slowly blew out a puff of smoke. "Do you think you're still good enough for me?"
#I pulled you out of the mire, and you dragged me into hell#
A worldly, pragmatic woman who will stop at nothing to escape the mire X a domineering, calculating man who would humble himself at her feet
Theme: There are no gods who will save the world, only people who refuse to give up.
