Army Life on a 1970s Island: I Build a Fortune Through Food

Su Qing, a modern food blogger, unexpectedly wakes up inside a period novel she had just mocked online. She has become the cannon-fodder supporting female character who shares her name and meets a tragic end.

In the original story, she was greedy for wealth and status, abandoned her husband, the “villain,” after he was sent to an island research institute, and left behind their twin son and daughter. She devoted herself to pursuing the male lead, only to become a stepping stone and die of illness in regret.

When Su Qing arrives, the original owner is preparing to run off with the last of the family’s money.

Faced with twins who are painfully thin but fierce-eyed, and Lu Heng, her husband, a research genius who will later become powerful and ruthless in the original novel, Su Qing makes her choice without hesitation: stay and cling to his coattails!

An island in the late 1970s, with scarce supplies and a hard life?

No problem. She has a head full of gourmet recipes and business savvy far ahead of her time.

She starts by gathering seafood along the shore and making her own secret seafood sauce. Then she uses the island’s specialties to open a food-processing plant and build a nationally renowned canned-food brand. After reform and opening up, she takes her restaurant chain across the country...

On this barren island, Su Qing builds her own gourmet empire with nothing but pots, pans, and sheer determination.

Meanwhile, Lu Heng, the taciturn “villain” husband whose mind is always on his research, gradually thaws as his wife feeds him delicious food again and again and supports him unconditionally.

To his amazement, the woman who once knew only how to throw tantrums not only makes their life flourish, but also becomes his strongest ally in his research and his one source of warmth.

Lu Heng: The nation and my research are my faith, but you are my life.

Su Qing: I want both a career and a man. And it wouldn’t be too much to crush the original story’s hero and heroine while I’m at it, would it?