That was indeed the case. Shi Qiang had written home with great enthusiasm, telling his family that he wanted to get a marriage certificate with Zhu Pandi.

However, the Shi family, who rarely replied to letters, made an unprecedented move by sending a telegram with no superfluous words, containing only two words—"No."

Shi Qiang excitedly pulled Zhu Pandi to open the telegram, only to see this result, which both of them found hard to accept.

Zhu Pandi, in particular, felt extremely wronged, but in front of the stone wall, she couldn't curse at the other people's parents, so she covered her face and ran out of the educated youth settlement.

Seeing this, Shi Qiang naturally followed, but he couldn't say anything to comfort people or make any meaningful promises, so he just followed silently.

Sure enough, Shi Qiang, being a mama's boy, didn't dare to go against his family's wishes and secretly got a marriage certificate with her.

Realizing this, Zhu Pandi closed her eyes in despair, crying her heart out, and ignored Shi Qiang's calls.

She originally intended to use her tears to pressure Shi Qiang, but he remained unmoved and just looked at her with a pained expression.

At her angrier, she even wanted to gouge out Shi Qiang's eyes. What good was that awful look if he didn't give any real promises? It only annoyed her!

Finally, she had no choice but to take the risk and begin contemplating suicide.

When she rushed towards the river in front of Shi Qiang, she made up her mind that she had to be genuine.

A better outcome would be for Shi Qiang to promise to marry her on the spot; a worse outcome would be for him to make a big scene and get the team members and the captain involved.

Anyway, she already belongs to Shi Qiang and has no intention of marrying anyone else, but since Shi Qiang has taken her body, it's reasonable for him to give her an explanation, right?

"Brother Qiang, since your family doesn't want you to marry me, there's nothing I can do to force you. Let's just leave it at that."

But I... I've already given myself to you, what can I do? I only ask that you don't forget me, and that you be happy from now on.

After saying that, she quickly ran towards the riverbank, while Shi Qiang was still standing there, feeling sorry for her in a daze. By the time he realized what was happening, she had already run quite a distance away.

"Hey! Nana, Nana, what are you doing? Don't do anything rash, please, Nana..."

Women's physical strength is no match for men's. As soon as Zhu Pandi jumped into the river, Shi Qiang pulled her back.

Holding the soaking wet person in his arms, Shi Qiang was terrified.

"Nana, Nana, please don't beg me like this, please don't be like this, I'll marry you, I promise I'll marry you, okay?"

Just as a glimmer of light appeared in Zhu Pandi's eyes, she heard Shi Qiang muttering to himself again:

"I must marry Nana. I can convince my parents. I can do it, I can do it..."

These words quickly extinguished the flame that had been burning in Zhu Pandi's eyes.

See, he still wants his parents' permission.

So Zhu Pandi gave him a hard shove.

Seeing that she couldn't push him away, she slapped him hard across the face again.

"Shi Qiang, let me go! Can you wake up? Your parents will never approve of our marriage!"

Shi Qiang was still somewhat stunned from the shock of Zhu Pandi almost jumping into the river, and was still a little dazed after being slapped.

"Nana, I... please don't do this..."

Seeing him like this, Zhu Pandi felt bad too.

After what happened after the spring planting, she already knew that she had no choice but to marry Shi Qiang, so she sincerely wanted to live a good life with him.