Rising to the Top in the 1980s: I Married an Abstinent Officer and He Spoils Me Rotten

[Period setting + military marriage + married first and falling in love later + rise to success + rising star in medicine + investment tycoon]

Transported to the 1980s countryside into the body of a foolish village girl, Shen Qing finds herself with weak, easily bullied parents and two powerful families of uncles. Her military-officer husband marries her only to repay a debt of gratitude, with no love involved. Worse, from the start she’s saddled with the disgraceful reputation of a military wife who has been unfaithful. Faced with this hellish start, Shen Qing takes a deep breath, then another, then another.

Believing that a talented person can shine anywhere, Shen Qing sets out on her village-girl comeback. She stands up for her parents and delivers crushing blows to her exploitative uncles. The “useless daughter who’ll leave the family line without an heir” becomes the “daughter who’ll protect her family at all costs”!

Returning to high school as an older student, she skips grades and gets into university. She studies medicine to heal the sick and save lives, and her exceptional talent and hard work accidentally make her the favorite student of a top expert. She has a little hobby of investing in her spare time and, before she knows it, becomes a major investor too.

Her military-officer husband, who married her to repay a debt of gratitude, hears a constant stream of news: “Your wife skipped a grade. Your wife got into university. Your wife became Professor Chen’s favorite student. Your wife was in the newspaper. Your wife was on TV. Your wife…” It leaves him increasingly anxious. Afraid the wife he married to repay a debt might run away, he rushes home as soon as each mission ends. The gratitude-bound husband who felt nothing for her becomes utterly obsessed with his wife…