Help! He Insists on Marrying Me! [The 1970s]

A native of the 1970s, not reborn.

Ever since Ming Wei was sent to the countryside, she had been afraid to wear new clothes or spend money, and she had never once eaten her fill. She was terrified that people would find out she was a capitalist's daughter.

She hid her beauty to avoid harassment from street hooligans and lecherous thugs, but in doing so, she gave hope to the village's dim-witted and disabled men.

Just as she was anxiously wondering how much longer she would have to endure this miserable life, a man appeared.

He gave her white-flour sesame flatbread and canned braised pork to eat. He even bought her new fabric, so she could finally take off the coarse underclothes that chafed her skin.

The only problem was... the woman this man liked was her cousin, and back then, Ming Wei had broken up the pair of star-crossed lovers herself.

But to avoid going hungry and being taken advantage of again, when he asked her to become his comrade in the revolution, Ming Wei could only marry him through her tears.

Note: The star-crossed lovers are just what the heroine imagines. The hero was attracted to her looks first, then fell deeply in love.

The hero's perspective: Si Heng went a thousand miles to his stepmother's hometown to repay a debt of gratitude and attend his father's funeral in his place.

Everyone thought he had turned over a new leaf, never suspecting he had gone to repay a kindness from years ago.

But the moment he saw the fair, beautiful little waif emerge from the water in the dark, he thought: I have no way to repay the kindness she showed me back then, except to give her my hand in marriage.

After they married, he took her with him to his military post, found her a job, and little by little restored the frail, timid waif to the fair, plump, pretty, pampered girl she had been.

And then... the little waif, no, the pampered girl, was reunited with her capitalist father.

He watched as his little darling kicked him without hesitation and dashed back to the Shen family, acting sweet with her parents in a way she had never once acted with him, then telling him to go find true love.

Si Heng flipped the table (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻. To hell with true love!

Theme: Even when the road ahead is dark, charge toward the light with all your might