[Rugged male lead + 1980s setting + devoted couple + sweet romance + feel-good power fantasy]
Chen Rutang is reborn in the 1980s. If things follow the path of her previous life, she’ll run away from her wedding, get kidnapped and sold, and see her whole family wiped out.
After being reborn, Rutang rubs her hands together, ready for action: “I’ll defy fate by not running away from my wedding. Yu Yaoyang? I’ll marry him!”
The villagers cover their mouths and laugh: “Yu Yaoyang is a street loafer. What good can come of marrying him?”
The supporting characters who envy Rutang whisper among themselves: “Marry a street loafer and you’ll get beaten every day!”
Everyone waits to see Rutang make a fool of herself, but things don’t go the way they expect.
When human traffickers try to abduct her and sell her, she captures them and hands them over to the authorities!
When a supporting character tries to seduce her street-loafer husband, she makes her kneel and sing “I Surrender”!
When the family runs out of money, they make a fortune selling seafood and mountain produce!
After they marry, the young couple’s life flourishes. They eat meat at every meal and become rolling in money, while Rutang is pampered to the skies by her in-laws.
The jealous onlookers refuse to believe it: “That street loafer must be faking it. He’ll get arrested sooner or later.”
Then one day, they see Yu Yaoyang’s name in the paper among the Ten Outstanding Young People.
They rush to the wall outside the Yu family home to eavesdrop. The street loafer roars with all his might: “Chen Rutang, don’t think I’m afraid of you! I’ll kneel on the washboard if I want to. Who are you to stop me? That’s how a real man shows his strength!”
The onlookers are left speechless by the face-slapping reversal: after getting married, the street loafer has turned over a new leaf and become a model young man.
Only Rutang runs off in tears, sporting dark circles from having her kidneys worked to the limit. To trick the street loafer into going straight, she’s paid a price no one can imagine.
Such a wonderful book, how could I not add it to my collection? I'll treasure it and read it slowly. The day it's released will be the day I subscribe to the entire set. Supporting it, looking forward to it...