For money, Old Man Su forced his daughter Tian Tao to marry an old widower. Driven to a dead end, Tian Tao stopped A Shi, a deep-mountain hunter who had once saved her mother, and asked with a red face, "Can you marry me?" The taciturn, rugged A Shi showed up three days later carrying ten liang of silver to propose marriage, and welcomed her deep into the mountains. Everyone said the mountain folk's life was bitter and harsh, but Tian Tao was pampered by the rugged man into the apple of his eye. In the rough wilderness, he hid all his sharp edges, loved her, cherished her, and gave all his tenderness to his little darling of a wife.