The 1970s: The System Helps Me Raise Kids, and the Celibate Officer Begs for Cuddles

Period story + military marriage + raising kids + comeback + face-slapping + wish-fulfillment story

When Lu Wenwan opened her eyes, she had become a country girl in the 1970s. Her mother had just died, and for thirty yuan and fifty jin of grain, her stepfather was going to marry her off to an old bachelor.

She ran away to Shenzhen to find her biological father. He refused to acknowledge her and promptly handed her over to an officer named Huo Zheng. Huo Zheng had a scar on his face, rarely spoke, and was raising two children who had lost both parents.

The older one was a boy named Huo Xiaoyang, who glared at her whenever he saw her. The younger one was a girl named Huo Xiaoya, so hungry she gnawed on her fingers.

Lu Wenwan figured she’d just make do. It wasn’t as if she could run away now. But as time went by, the children started calling her Second Aunt, Huo Zheng handed over every cent of his pay, and warmth slowly filled that cold, shabby home.

Later, she went to An County and brought Huo Zheng’s father back from a farm. Then she went to the capital and delivered a document overturning a wrongful conviction to the right people.

After that, Huo Zheng returned from the front lines, and the whole family settled in the capital. They took a family photo and lived an ordinary but lively life.

From a country girl sold off for thirty yuan to the backbone of a big family, Lu Wenwan got where she was by never backing down, not even once.