The Young Officer Pursues Love: A Little Sweetness

Jiang Zhi is exactly what his name suggests: as they say in Sichuan dialect, “stubborn as a mule, with one straight gut running right through him.”

Jiang Zhi was disobedient from a young age. His family called it a manly streak of rebelliousness, but he gave them no end of worry. They quickly talked it over with his teacher and sent him off to the army to be disciplined.

Zhou Yang got her name because her father’s surname was Zhou and her mother’s surname was Yang. So when it came time to name her, her father chose Zhou Yang.

But the clerk registering her name mistyped it, and Zhou Yang’s name was set in stone.

Zhou Yang had always been terribly glad her mother’s surname was Yang. At least her name sounded all right.

What if her mother’s surname had been Niu or Ma? Zhou Ma? Zhou Niu? The thought was horrifying.

Jiang Zhi and Zhou Yang were from the same village, but for more than twenty years they passed each other countless times without ever knowing who the other was.

Until the day Zhou Yang accompanied her best friend on a blind date.

She never expected her friend to win over the man Zhou Yang had come to meet. So what was Zhou Yang supposed to do? Steal her friend’s date? An eye for an eye?