The 1980S: The Illiterate Army Wife Emerges from the Mountains

A lighthearted story set in the 1980s, with everyday life, a heroine building her fortune, raising a child, and a hero who appears infrequently early on A remote, underdeveloped mountain region on Huaguo’s southwestern frontier. As the saying goes, when a family has a daughter, a hundred families will seek her hand; when a family has a daughter-in-law, one family gets to keep her. Li Baibai is pretty, so plenty of families come courting, but her father demands a steep bride price. With Li Baibai about to turn twenty, her father is so anxious he’s practically foaming at the mouth. Luckily, his eldest son says he knows someone who can help. A few days later, the militiamen never show up. Instead, a young, handsome officer arrives! The second daughter of the Li family marries well, and the whole family is grinning from the start of the year to the end, their smiles nearly splitting their faces. But who could have guessed that the following winter, Li Baibai would return to the village with someone, and the news would send shockwaves through the mountains? A military wife becomes a martyr’s widow, with a baby on the way! Her officer husband’s pension is gone, and most of her savings are spent. How will she get by? Her father grabs her, drags her out, and throws her from the house, cursing her: “If you can’t make a living, you jinx, take that lump in your belly and jump off a cliff to the underworld to join your man.” Li Baibai: Hah. In the end, you can rely on no one but yourself. That’s the truth Li Baibai learns on her bumpy road to growing up! No rebirth, no transmigration, no System. Our heroine from a rural background follows the changing times, seizes every opportunity to build a fortune, and lives life on her own terms.