Wang Zhenhe, "An Oxcart for a Dowry"

A fairly brutal exposition of the economic basis of marriage--or, more precisely, its dissolution. And interestingly, unlike most stories of this genre, there seems to be a lot of sympathy for the economic realism. No romance here. One is happy for Wanfa that he ends up able to eat, at the cost of giving up on a loveless marriage. Most animus seems directed against the social norms manifested in the (rather clumsy and abbreviated) frame narrative, which are unwilling to recognize unorthodox necessities.