Military Marriage: The Feisty Army Wife Refuses to Be a Foil in the 1970s

[Entirely fictional] [Military marriage + transmigration into a book + female supporting character + contrast characters + devoted husband]

Chen Baozhu’s own mother mocks her for sleeping through the day and staying up all night. On her way to the market, she transmigrates into the minor cannon-fodder character in a period novel she had just stayed up all night reading, a character meant to serve as a contrast to the heroine.

She arrives just as her stepmother’s daughter, her stepsister, is pressuring her to give up the job she worked so hard to secure.

In the book, her stepmother is sweet on the outside but cruel within, her stepbrother is all honeyed words and hidden daggers, and her stepsister is pretentious and affected.

Even her real father has become a stepfather, forcing her to go to the countryside and make way for someone else.

But as someone who knows the plot, how could Chen Baozhu possibly follow a script that sacrifices her?

She takes on her stepmother and her own father, exposing their false faces.

Her stepbrother, who tricked his way into getting her job, is knocked off his high horse. Her stepsister’s scheme to avoid being sent to the countryside falls apart, and she has no choice but to go there obediently.

Having ditched her awful family, Chen Baozhu sells two jobs and prepares to take her money and golden finger to the countryside, where she plans to live a carefree life. But first, she is greeted by a handsome fiancé in military uniform whom she has never met.

Her fiancé is tall, fit, and handsome. Sure enough, the good-looking ones all belong to the nation!

Chen Baozhu decides that maybe this marriage isn’t such a bad idea.

She follows her fiancé to the countryside and then to the military compound, only to discover that she is not the only minor cannon-fodder character: her fiancé is one too.

That won’t do!

See how she and her fiancé tear up their cannon-fodder script and build a thriving life together.