Taiwanese Mother-in-Law: You Get Your Protein from Eating Field Mice?

Wu Meng, his girlfriend from Taiwan, and his future mother-in-law set foot on mainland China for the first time. In her eyes, the mainland was still as poor and backward as it had been in the 1930s and 1940s.

We don't have tea eggs, so our only source of protein is field mice.

We don't have proper roads or railways, so we get around on horseback.

We don't have a proper logistics system, so everything is carried by horse-drawn cart.

We don't have a variety of delicious food. All we can eat is plain steamed buns with pickled vegetables, every meal.

But when she finally sets foot on this land, everything she sees completely overturns her assumptions.

Take her shopping and let her experience facial-recognition payments, ushering in a new era of digital payments!

Take her out to eat and let her try all eight major cuisines: Shandong, Sichuan, Cantonese, Jiangsu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Anhui!

Take her to see the Great Wall, one of the world's seven medieval wonders and a military defensive structure!

Take her to see the Hulunbuir Grassland, an area three times the size of Taiwan Province. Let her see what blue skies and green lands, what a pristine green paradise, really look like!

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.