Summary
Lin Sang is known throughout the neighboring villages as a hardworking and capable young woman. Engaged to a promising scholar, she believed she was destined for a peaceful life as a respected scholar’s wife.
Instead, he betrayed her.
After secretly falling for her own cousin, the scholar shamelessly broke off their engagement. While everyone praised him and pitied her, Lin Sang refused to shed a single tear.
“If you think he’s such a blessing, you’re welcome to have him.”
Just as the villagers waited to see her become a laughingstock, the village’s most notorious rogue, Zhou Han, unexpectedly arrived at her doorstep carrying lavish betrothal gifts.
Everyone expected disaster.
They thought the rogue would ruin her life.
Instead, he adored her beyond measure.
The crumbling thatched cottage became a spacious brick home.
The barren fields turned into fertile land worth a fortune.
Their simple life blossomed into unimaginable wealth.
And when the scholar finally realized what he had lost and begged for another chance…
Lin Sang had only one answer.
“Too late.”
With a loving husband by her side and a fortune of her own making, the life she built is one the scholar will never be able to reach.