Xia Lu couldn't remember how long she hadn't shed tears -

a long, long time -

she seldom cried, not because she wasn't sad or upset, but she knew since she was a girl that crying was useless, it couldn't solve problems, it would only get her beaten and scolded.

But suddenly there was someone in her life who told her that she could cry. He

always chased her and asked her why she didn't cry when she was hurt, hey, you don't have to be so strong.

Xia Lu, when can you open up and cry in front of me?

Why do I want you to cry?

Because that means you trust me.

I don't want you to be so strong, it's tiring to be strong, you can also be willful and coquettish sometimes.

Born in a family that favors boys over girls, Xia Lu has experienced endless sadness and repression. The environment that favors boys over girls has caused her to suffer from prejudices against women, which makes Xia Lu, who knows that she should fight for herself, feel painful. She wants to break away from this environment and doesn't want to watch the girls around her sink into such an environment again and again, so she resists, fights, and rebels. She wants to protect the people she wants to protect, but her closest people always want to drag her back to the swamp.

There is only one person.

He always holds her hand and drags her out of the swamp.

Although they live in the same town and are so close to each other, the atmosphere of the Qin family and the Xia family is naturally different. She and Xia Shangxu both live in an extreme environment where their parents are arrogant and extremely prejudiced.

She will always remember when she was fifteen years old - that elder sister chose to jump into the river to protest because she was bullied and insulted by her husband's family, but no one sympathized with her. Everyone said, "Why can others give birth to boys, but you can't? You were divorced because you didn't give birth. You should be a slave. Why do you lose your temper?"

Obviously, that elder sister didn't want to die at that time.

As long as her family members reached out a little and grabbed her, she would not die.

However, it was her biological parents who finally crushed the elder sister's life.

After that incident, Xia Lu became more and more rebellious. She even asked someone to beat the son of her parents! It wasn't that the son of this family did anything wrong, but because his existence made the elder sister homeless, so Xia Lu beat him, "You love sons but not daughters, and you love face but not daughters!"

Then I will bully him.

However, Xia Lu was not a god of war. She would also be covered with bruises during a fight.

She would often be beaten by her father after she came back from a fight. It was normal for the stick to break on her body, and it was normal for her to have bruises all over her body. It was also normal for her legs to be beaten and limp. Even if she ran away from home, she was unwilling to bow her head and beg for mercy.

Then one day, she went to find Xia Shangxu fainted on the roadside with a high fever. She thought she was dying and was leaving this ugly world. The man squatted in front of her, carrying a small one on his shoulder, who seemed to be his brother, with a match in his mouth, and said nonchalantly, "What's your name?"

"What do you care."

"Why are you lying here? Aren't you uncomfortable?"

"What do you care."

"Oh... Brother, go away."

"Brother Jiang Ke, come here quickly, she is a bad girl, don't get close to her."

"She is Xia Lu, the one who fights and stirs up trouble everywhere. She is a bad girl who can seduce people. Oh, she glared at me."

Xia Lu lay on the ground in despair, occasionally turning her head away, motionless. Then, she was pulled up from the ground. Her hands were obviously dirty, but the man's hands were very clean, but he held her hands without any disgust.

Then - she beat him.

After that - his figure seemed to be everywhere, "Xia Lu."

"Xia Lu, come and play."

"Xia Lu..."

"Xia Lu, my name is Qin Jiangke."

She ran and he chased her. Sometimes he brought his sister Qin Qin out, and then left Qin Qin to her and went to do other things.

After several years of this, Xia Lu seemed to be accustomed to the existence of this person - as if there was a little hope in her life, and there was such a person, it was still worth her living to see.

Of course, she also fought as usual.

"Xia Lu, you are injured again, come down, I will bandage your wound."

"Why don't you ask me why you are fighting again."

"Xia Lu is a good girl. If you fight, it must be because the other party has done something wrong."

"Humph... hypocritical."

Xia Lu despised him while talking about the reason for her fight -

her classmate's brother owed money from gambling, and then wanted to sell her classmate. She was so angry that she beat up the brother and threw him into the pond. The other party found her home, so Xia Lu was also beaten.

“夏露，和你結婚的話你家需要多少錢啊。”

“…………什麽？”

“我說和你結婚的話，給你父母多少彩禮他們會同意？”

“？？？？”夏露有點懵逼的看着眼前的男人，你在說個什麽玩意，但她還是回答道“他們那肯定獅子大開口，多少都不嫌多，不是，你問這個幹什麽？”

“想和你結婚，把你帶到家裏來寵，這樣，你就不用被你父母逼得成天都受傷了，看着心疼。”秦江科嘆息的說，一邊算着自己的存款。

“………………？？？”

夏露臉一變一變的，我把你當朋友你想睡我？

然後她又把秦江科揍了，連着一段時間都不在他面前出現了。

Qin Jiangke could only hear her making trouble...

Then one day, Xia Lu got into trouble and hurt someone badly! The other party came to her and demanded compensation, so Xia's father and mother wanted to sell her to pay the compensation.

Qin Jiangke came to her house with money.

He cheated her out of his own savings and the savings of his younger brothers' pensions, a total of 2,000 yuan.

What did 2,000 yuan mean in the 1970s?

In those days, there were no millionaires in Qinhuai Street. 2,000 yuan was really a lot of money. Qin Jiangke used 2,000 yuan as a betrothal gift and said he would marry Xia Lu - this also avoided Xia Lu's fate of being sold.

Let's not talk about the Qin family's reaction.

Xia Lu was taken out of the Xia family by Qin Jiangke. He said that you don’t have to marry me: "I just want to save you and give you a free body. If you have an engagement with me, your parents won’t force you with this in the future. You can do what you want to do, and you don’t have to fight for your rights all day long. Xia Lu, this world is actually very beautiful. I will take you to see more of the world, so that you won’t cry sadly all the time, and smile more."

Two thousand yuan in exchange for her freedom.

Xia Lu almost beat Qin Jiangke to death. What a bastard.

Can she afford this money? No!

And she is not worth two thousand.