Most novel tropes feature the hero saving the beauty but with Yu Nian’an, it was the beauty who saved the hero.
The first moment she hauled Gu Shen out of the river, Yu Nian’an thought to herself: this man is really quite good-looking.
People in the village all said the newly arrived educated youth was just easy on the eyes pretty to look at, but useless in practice, weak at farm work.
Yu Nian’an didn’t agree. She liked good-looking people.
After all, being handsome is temporary; being ugly lasts a lifetime.
As she watched Gu Shen grow more and more striking by the day, a flash of inspiration struck her, and a bold idea surfaced in her mind.
She would weave a net with tenderness, lay out her plan with devotion,
lure Gu Shen step by step into willingly living off her support.
Only when she finally had him completely in her grasp did she realize that the villagers had all been wrong.
The educated youth wasn’t just good-looking he was useful too.
