The 1970s Darling Wife: The Cold-Faced Officer’s Beloved

Jiang Tian of the theatrical troupe is the daintiest girl in the entire military district, with skin so soft it looks like you could squeeze water from it.

Yet the organization arranges for her to marry Zhou Tingshen, the coldest, toughest man in the whole army.

A scar cuts across his brow. He drills his troops mercilessly, and his midnight exercises are enough to make new recruits cry from the cold.

Everyone bets she won't last three days.

Until someone sees it with their own eyes:

The stern-faced officer crouches by the river, clumsily washing her lace underwear.

When she has a fever, he braves a torrential downpour, climbs a cliff with his bare hands to gather herbs, and returns with the fever-reducing plant cradled in his bloodied hands.

One night, he pins her against the courtyard wall, his Adam's apple bobbing. "Sweetheart, I surrender."