Like Weeds

Ye Taotao's upbringing could be summed up in eight characters: "A father's love, like a mountain; a mother's love, like water."

Her father was as silent and immovable as a mountain, ignoring her for years. After her parents divorced, her mother flowed away like water, vanishing without a trace for over a decade.

Though born into a wealthy family, she never expected her parents to bail her out. Like most students, she studied hard, passed her university entrance exams, and became an ordinary English teacher after graduating. Somehow, she caught the eye of the Lu family, one of the wealthiest families around.

Ye Taotao couldn't say she liked or disliked Young Master Lu. She just thought the rich heir had a decent personality: obedient, timid, and easy to manage. Wanting to give her parents a little grief, she agreed to the marriage.

But married life was nothing like she'd expected.

Children who grow up surrounded by love know instinctively how to love others. He'd get up early to cook her a pot of pear soup with rock sugar to soothe her throat, stay up with her while she worked late, and defend her unconditionally in front of other people.

Ye Taotao suddenly realized that a child raised amid the wreckage of a love story could still want to spend their whole life with someone.

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Everyone in high society thought Ye Taotao, a marginalized young woman from a divorced family, had hit the jackpot by marrying Young Master Lu. But Lu Demiao himself didn't see it that way.

His new wife was a rising star in education, talented and virtuous. By comparison, he was merely a gilded pull-tab can whose only real talent was having been born lucky.

Of course he was drawn to her. He felt for everything she'd been through and devoted himself to treating her well. Even knowing his wife didn't care about him, he wasn't upset.

If a capable, respectable young woman didn't like a spoiled playboy who did nothing but eat and wait to die, then the playboy was obviously to blame.

And so the Lu parents were delighted to discover that their younger son had finally found the will to work hard for the girl he loved...

Theme: Self-reliance matters more than anything