After a Marriage Swap on a 1970s Island: I Pamper My Disabled Husband

Shen Zhiyi has never had much luck in life. Her father dies, her mother remarries, and to secure a wife for her older brother, she is sold off to a fishing island in the South China Sea to marry a disabled fisherman. She hears that although he has lost the use of one leg, he is the island’s best fisherman. Steady and dependable, he seems like the best husband she could hope for, so Shen Zhiyi grits her teeth and accepts her fate. She arrives just as a typhoon sweeps through the island. After spending the entire boat ride throwing up, she finally stumbles ashore, soaked to the bone. There, she catches sight of a tall man standing on the reef, leaning on a crutch, with a pair of eyes deeper than the sea itself. Zhou Xubai is a decorated war hero, but he loses the use of one leg while saving a comrade. After leaving the military, he is assigned to a remote island. The waves rage that day. Even his unyielding spirit seems on the verge of being crushed. He expects to be greeted with nothing but disdain, yet the young woman simply wipes the rain from her face and says,”Are you Comrade Zhou Xubai? Hello. I’m Shen Zhiyi. I’m here to spend my life with you.” The drenched young woman looks up. Windswept strands of hair cling to her porcelain-white face. She hasn’t come to complain about her lot in life. Once the storm passes and the sea grows calm, his true fiancée finally comes looking for him. She dreams of a novel. In it, Zhou Xubai leaves the island and returns to the capital, where he single-handedly founds Dongfang Shipping, the company that will one day dominate the shipping industry. Wielding immense power, he drives everyone who ever bullied or humiliated him, including her, into complete ruin. Believing Zhou Xubai spends the rest of his life alone in the novel, she rushes to the island, convinced there’s still time to change everything. Instead, she finds the future shipping tycoon, known for his icy demeanor and even colder heart, sitting on the beach with his sleeves rolled up to his elbows, painstakingly weaving a shell bracelet for a young girl. The result is spectacularly ugly. She is stunned, while at that very same moment, Shen Zhiyi is equally stunned when the real Zhou Xubai comes looking for her.