The Bridegroom (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Xuefei Jin
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1976
- Setting: Muji, China
- Principal Characters: Old Cheng, Beina, Huang Baowen, Long Fuhai
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, 1980’s, Revenge, Cruelty, China or Chinese people
- Locales: China
The Story
From the day that handsome Huang Baowen proposes to Beina, his homely coworker at a sewing factory in northeastern China, Old Cheng, Beina's adoptive father and the chief of security at the factory, begins to dread the failure of their marriage. However, when the couple marry after a short engagement, the old man begins to hope for the best. Eight months later, however, Beina is not yet pregnant, and Cheng fears the young man will lose interest in an apparently barren wife whose puffy face reminds even her own father of a blowfish. Consequently, when Beina rushes into...
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