Lin Jiaojiao of Xinghua Commune is unique in everyone's eyes.
Since she was fifteen, she could hunt rabbits in the hills and earn a full day's work points in the fields, and she was pretty, too.
But she was also far too hard to deal with. Even her famously fierce grandmother was afraid to cross her, so although young men should have been lining up at her door, no one had dared come to ask for her hand.
Lin Jiaojiao thinks she was born in the best of times. No one in the production team dares mess with her.
As for marriage, she thinks she could marry a man and bring him home to support him.
Just as everyone began saying the girl would end up an old maid, Lin Jiaojiao got married and brought a husband home.
Her partner was a stunningly handsome educated youth sent down to the countryside. He came from a family of scholars that had even donated books to a library, but everyone in his family except him had been sent to a farm.
Later, people noticed that the whole fierce Lin family had started reading books. Sometimes they even spoke in a refined, literary way. It was downright unnerving. What was going on?
Tough woman x frail scholar
Theme: Independence is the path to strength.
