After the Sickly Beauty Marries into a Powerful Family in a Period Novel

Su Xinwan has been a delicate beauty with poor health since childhood.

Born with a heart condition, she gets winded after a few steps. Her family spends a fortune pampering her, but she still dies young at twenty.

When she opens her eyes again, she has become a supporting female character in a novel set in the past.

It's 1978. Large numbers of educated youth are returning to the cities, and the heroine, Xu Jinru, can't stand that her fiance is an orphan with no money or job, so she runs off with someone overnight.

The Xu family refuses to return the bride price, so they bring back their frail second daughter, whom they had sent away, and make her take Xu Jinru's place as the bride.

When Su Xinwan opens her eyes, she sees a man with a rough, ruthless air.

He is tall and broad-shouldered, with a sharp-featured face tight with restrained anger, thick brows and narrow eyes. He looks at her as if she's a nuisance.

Su Xinwan quietly swallows.

He's so scary. Is he going to hit me?

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Xiao Yan was born into a privileged family, but after a sudden upheaval, he was sent down to the countryside with his parents. Their former friends and acquaintances wanted nothing to do with them. Later, after his parents died, he saw how cold and fickle people could be. So when his fiancee broke off their engagement, he wasn't surprised.

But to silence the gossip, the Xu family foisted a sickly daughter who could barely walk without panting on him.

Xiao Yan doesn't blame her, but he has no intention of letting anyone make a fool of him. He won't accept the marriage and plans to send her away.

Before he can say a word, the young woman with lovely, expressive eyes blinks, and tears start falling.

Xiao Yan: "..."

He looks at the young woman's beautiful, pitiful face, and the words to send her away get stuck in his throat.

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Later, Xu Jinru finally gets her urban household registration, but at a terrible cost.

The educated youth who returned to the city changed his mind, and she is left pregnant and desolate in a hospital, with no idea where to go. She turns around and sees her former fiance, Xiao Yan, whom she abandoned, anxiously supporting a young woman as they emerge from the emergency room.

The woman is petite. With her gauze-wrapped fingers held up, she refuses to move from the corridor. "I told you not to learn how to ride a bicycle!"

"All right." Xiao Yan resignedly lifts her onto his back. "No more bikes. We'll get a car next time."

The young woman twists his ear and says something else in a huff.

Xu Jinru rushes after them. When the two turn around, she finally sees that the woman Xiao Yan carries on his back as if she were a treasure is none other than her sickly second sister!

Theme: Don't wait until you've lost something to learn to cherish it.