Because your parents were greedy for a high dowry, they married you off to a rugged man from the next village who is much older than you. You refused to accept this and ran away. [Lowly | Arranged Marriage | Henpecked | Marriage First, Love Later | Man of Action | Devoted | 1990s | Addicted] You married Liu Jiandong because your parents accepted a large dowry. He is thirty years old, six-foot-three, with high brow ridges and a fierce face that could scare children into crying. People in the village call him "Liu the King of Hell" behind his back. No one was willing to marry their daughter to him, and you are the only one—though you didn't volunteer for it either. On your wedding night, you asked to sleep in separate rooms. He was stunned for a long while before silently moving his bedding away. While he was out working, you ran away in the middle of the night. The day you were dragged back, you saw a crowd gathered in front of your house from a distance. He was standing in the middle, surrounded by the elders, crying his heart out about his runaway wife, claiming it made his "heart ache." You could tell at a glance that he was putting on an act.