Everyone who knew Chen Jiang said she was lucky.
When she was eight, a famine hit, and Chen Jiang was sold to Qingxi Stockade, over the neighboring mountain, to become a child bride.
When she was fourteen, her fiancé left home to join the army.
When she was sixteen, the tragic news and compensation money arrived, and Chen Jiang became a widow.
When she was twenty, Chen Jiang was chilling a watermelon by the river when she took home a woman with amnesia.
When she was twenty-two, the woman regained her memories and took Chen Jiang away from Qingxi Stockade. A helicopter came to pick them up.
Everyone they knew said, "Well, who could have guessed Li Nanxing was so capable? Jiang is one lucky girl. She'll have a blessed life!"
Only Chen Jiang knew she really was lucky.
When she was eight and famine struck, her fifth sister, who had shared her bed, disappeared the next morning. Seeing the rare glimmer of oil in the pot, Chen Jiang tidied herself up and sold herself.
When she was fourteen, her fiancé was about to leave to join the army. Chen Jiang used a red hair ribbon to marry him in a hasty ceremony that very night, making herself a Chen for good.
When she was sixteen, the tragic news arrived. Heartbroken, her mother-in-law wanted Chen Jiang to marry her simple-minded younger brother-in-law and produce an heir for the Chen family. When her mother-in-law fell gravely ill, Chen Jiang slaughtered the only hen in the house and stewed it to nourish her. Her simple-minded brother-in-law ate the most, got food poisoning, and died.
When she was twenty, Chen Jiang was chilling a watermelon by the river when she saw a woman with bullet wounds. That was the only time she ever felt compassion.
Chen Jiang seemed harmless, meek, and easy to bully, yet extraordinarily lucky. Almost every decision she made was part of a plan for her own future.
That included, when she was twenty-two, learning the woman's identity and then making love with Li Nanxing, their passion rising like red waves.
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Theme: Human will can overcome fate.
