The 80s Girl is Sweet and Soft, and the Rough Husband Pampers his Wife

Autumn, 1980s.

The hoes clinked as villagers, weary from a day spent tilling the soil, made their way home. Their voices buzzed with the latest gossip, centered, as always, on Xihuai Village's notorious Su Yun—the Su family's eldest daughter, a magnet for trouble.

"That girl," one villager scoffed, shaking his head, "pretty as a picture, more beautiful than those city college students, but arrogant and lazy. All she dreams of is flying onto a branch and becoming a phoenix." He spat, hitting a dust patch.

Her doorstep had been worn thin by eager matchmakers, yet she always found fault: too poor, too short. Her grandpa, worried she'd make a mess of her life, had, before his death, hastily arranged a marriage with the grandson of an old comrade-in-arms. But peace didn't last.

Just days ago, she'd stolen her 'good friend,' Village Chief Chu's daughter, Chu Wan's, boyfriend. The scandal had ripped through the village like wildfire. Whispers claimed a man and woman had been caught doing shameful things in the woods. News, as it always did, reached the Si family, who promptly dispatched their grandson, Si Jieting, to investigate. If true, the engagement was off.