I Have to Behead You If You Won't Marry? What Kind of Crazy World Is This?

On the high platform sat a mighty-looking middle-aged man with a square face and large eyes, dressed in black robes and wearing a tall crown. Seated in a redwood armchair like a throne, he shouted down at a skinny man bound up like a dumpling: “Prisoner Liang Dongzhi! You’re eighteen years old, yet still unmarried, and you’ve refused the government’s offer of a wife. Do you know your crime?” Below the platform, Liu Yinzhu had been wondering about these people’s clothes, but now he froze on the spot. The mighty-looking middle-aged man’s words nearly fried Liu Yinzhu’s brain. Being unmarried was a crime? And the government assigned wives? What the hell was it, the government or his dad?