The Fragrant Chiguihua of the 1980s

[1970s · Slow-Life Farming · Family · Childhood Friends to Lovers]

Osmanthus flowers usually bloom from September to October. But when the second daughter-in-law of the Chi family was due in September, there was no sign of labor, and it was more than half a month late before she gave birth to a girl in the hospital. When Old Master Chi heard it was a daughter, he did not make a sound. Old Madam Chi chattered over the phone, telling her son how to take care of his wife and child. Chi Jianguo asked his father over the phone what name to give the child. Old Master Chi tapped his tobacco pipe and said, "Call her Guihua. This child is too slow; even the osmanthus that blooms at the proper season has to come late."

When Chi Guihua was ten, her father sent her back to the family home in the town. It was agreed that once he and her mother had developed their business and gained a foothold in Pengcheng, they would bring her over. But that foothold took five years to establish, and Chi Guihua had already been admitted to a key high school. Her father then said he would take her over to attend high school, but without household registration, she almost could not continue her studies.

She also had to face a complicated family situation: her middle-aged father had become successful and was determined to have a son; her mother refused to divorce no matter what and would rather adopt an illegitimate son; her biological younger sister was a little troublemaker; her illegitimate younger sister was full of schemes; as for the illegitimate younger brother—oh, he is not even her father's biological son.

At this time, the city classmates who looked down on Chi Guihua did not yet know that Chi Guihua had, since childhood, been one of the most famous sharp-tongued people in the area, with a quick mind and a fast mouth. Rumor had it that even her grandfather, who favored sons over daughters, eventually passed his skills on to her, and she took it wherever she went.

The male lead is a childhood friend turned unexpected arrival, a gloomy man who openly loves her, a little sun.