The Rugged Top and His Little Husband

In his past life, Qiao Gui was framed by his cousin Qiao Sanmiao and forced to marry Zhu Xiucai, a sickly young man from the neighboring village.

Zhu Xiucai died of illness on their wedding day, leaving Qiao Gui a young widowed husband. His life was wasted away, and he died at just twenty-four.

In this life, Qiao Gui is reborn on the very day he was framed. He turns the tables, evades Qiao Sanmiao's scheme, and exposes Qiao Sanmiao's affair with Zhu Xiucai in front of the villagers.

The whole village is abuzz. Zhu Xiucai is so enraged that he suffers a stroke and becomes paralyzed, while Qiao Sanmiao is forced to marry him and spend the rest of his life caring for a paralyzed man.

With his revenge complete and the knot from his past life undone, Qiao Gui's already lovely features seem to shine even brighter. Suitors nearly wear down his doorstep, but he turns them all away.

He's waiting for someone.

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The Xiang family is the poorest in the village. Both parents are dead, and there are eight siblings. They work themselves to the bone every day just to scrape by.

Everyone in the village knows how poor the family is. Xiang Da has no parents to support him, and he has eight younger siblings to provide for. No one wants to marry him.

By the time he was in his late twenties, Xiang Da had become a well-known bachelor in the village.

No one knew he had someone in his heart.

The day he heard that Qiao Gui's mother was in a hurry to find him a match, Xiang Da braved a blizzard and chopped wood in silence for three days and nights. He sold it in town for a silk ribbon meant for a ge'er, then knocked at Qiao Gui's door, chilled to the bone.

“What are you here for?”

Qiao Gui glanced at him. What took you so long?

The taciturn man took the ribbon from his robes and carefully tied it around Qiao Gui.

“To ask for your hand in marriage.”

Theme: Work hand in hand with the one you love and build a prosperous life together.