Stories of Qingshui: A Farming Couple's Flourishing Little Life

About the story

After a lifetime of mistreatment, Shen Niandi is renamed Lin Wanqiu and married to the Lin family's fourth son, Lin Qinghe, in the hope that a wedding will dispel his misfortune. She expects to enter another living hell, but in the kind, harmonious Lin household she finds the family affection and respect she has long lacked. Clever, capable, and hardworking, Wanqiu supplements the family income with her handicrafts and woodland skills and gently heals Lin Qinghe's feelings of inferiority. She helps her eldest sister-in-law become pregnant and saves a badly injured villager, earning the whole village's respect. United in purpose, the Lin family escapes natural disasters, resolves neighbors' harassment, and frees itself from distressing family troubles. Working diligently together, they make their poor lives increasingly prosperous and warm.