The 1970s: My Wife Is the Moonlight of the Cattle Shed

[Period drama + beachcombing + hunting + feel-good power fantasy + wife from a family labeled among the Five Black Categories + raising children + getting rich + one heroine]

Lin Weidong, a soldier king, opens his eyes and finds himself back in the 1970s.

From the start, his fiancée has run off with the village chief's son, and they even want him to leave with nothing?

Lin Weidong turns around and reports the pair, forcing the cheating couple to bow and apologize in public. They have to return three times the bride price, and he personally hangs them “naked” from the great locust tree at the village entrance, so the whole village can watch them suffer public humiliation!

Then, at the seaside, he comes across Su Mian, a young orphan from a family branded among the “Five Black Categories,” who is being bullied mercilessly.

Lin Weidong kicks a hooligan flying and leaves beside Su Mian a giant yellow-lip croaker worth half a village's grain rations.

From then on, the seaside becomes their only meeting place.

He leaves priceless deep-sea fish, and she gives him a pair of insoles she sewed herself. He leaves rare game, and she gives him a packet of wild ginger to ward off the cold.

Just as their life together is growing sweeter by the day, Zhang Dazhu shows up with the militia to arrest him for “speculation and profiteering”!

To protect her and be able to treat her well openly, Lin Weidong makes a startling decision.

With the insoles she made tucked into his clothes, he stiffens his neck and tells his mother, “Ma, give me two jin of brown sugar and one chi of printed cloth. I'm getting married!”

After they marry, he teaches her “precision fishing” and takes her from beachcombing and fishing to reclaiming land and raising stock with a tractor. Together, they turn the whole village into a prosperous community famous across the country!

A few years later, his father-in-law is exonerated and reinstated as a professor.

A car from the capital stops outside their home. Su Mian, her belly swollen with pregnancy, wraps her arms around his. “Weidong, I would've starved to death without you. Wherever you go, I'll go with you!”