Marry Me, Runaway Bride

The Gu family takes Tessa for a village girl with nothing behind her, and none of them know she has medical training. She lets that stand while they talk down to her. Her own family had arranged to marry her to the local strongman for the bride price he was offering. She ran on the wedding day, and while she was running she knocked into Cyrus, who was being pushed by his family to marry. He went down unconscious. His parents put a proposal to her, one year of marriage by contract, and she took it. She got on with his mother and father, and the household began picking up her country habits. The rest of them held her background against her. Cyrus kept his distance, because of Ruby, the woman who had once saved his life. Illnesses came up in the family that nobody else could treat, and Tessa treated them, and his position on the arrangement started to shift.