Zhu Yingtai was quite pretty, especially with that slender figure of hers. As she swayed her way down the mountain, Liang Shanbo truly felt he could hardly bear to part with her.
That only made him more conflicted.
Everyone in the village knew that Zhu Yingtai's family had only daughters and was determined to find a live-in son-in-law. There was no changing that.
"Ah! I knew this day would come! But I still can't resign myself to it!" Liang Shanbo murmured toward the setting sun, feeling as though something precious had slipped away.
Liang Shanbo had reasonably handsome features, but his family was simply too poor. His father had a crippled leg, and they were so poor that even putting food on the table had always been a struggle. Though he was already twenty-seven or twenty-eight, he still lacked the means to marry.
If he kept drifting along like this, he would become the village's old bachelor.
"Ah!" Left with no other choice, Liang Shanbo went home to discuss it with his father.
"I agree. Even if you marry into her family, she'll still be your wife! You can still have children! I-I'll ask someone to speak for you right away! You mustn't fool around with a girl!" To his surprise, his father was remarkably open-minded about it.
"Ah!" That only left Liang Shanbo even more miserable.
In such a remote mountain village, marrying into a woman's family was practically a humiliation for a man.
First, he would have to make offerings to his ancestors and change his surname. He would also have to abide by the eight customary rules for a live-in son-in-law.
As a man, Liang Shanbo truly did not want to take that step unless he had absolutely no other choice.
More importantly, he had dreams of