The Black Lotus of the 1970s: The Rough-and-Ready Officer Spoils Her

Sold by her awful grandmother for a bride price and forced to take the blame for her no-good younger brother, Su Wan dies in the bitter winter. Burning with hatred, she is reborn and returns to that fateful afternoon in 1978. This time, she has her ancestral space and the memories of a food blogger. Armed with steamed buns made from fine white flour, she puts the awful relatives in their place; with evidence in hand, she tears into the scumbag. She becomes the “black lotus” no one in the village dares to mess with!

She meets Lu Tingxiao, a rugged, demobilized soldier rumored to bring death to his wives, and takes one look at this guardian beast of a husband. “Want to get married? I’ll handle the trouble, you back me up. Deal?” It starts as a marriage of convenience, but the rough soldier spoils her rotten, taking care of everything from chopping firewood to hauling water. When her enemies come calling, he shields her behind him. “That’s my wife. Touch her and you die!”

Her space is piled high with rice, flour, and oil, and she knows recipes from the future by heart. She grows out-of-season vegetables to trade for ration coupons, sets up a stall selling tea eggs, and earns her first fortune. Riding the wave of reform and opening up, she opens a restaurant and stockpiles stamps, making the most of the boom in private businesses. Her grandmother, uncles, and aunts try to grab her inheritance? She shoves the written agreements in their faces until they’re on their knees. Her scumbag ex from her past life asks to get back together? She sends him to jail along with evidence of his embezzlement!

When the soldier rumored to bring death to his wives reveals that he is a military-region staff officer, and she stands beside him holding her university admission letter, they exchange a smile. Their marriage of convenience has become true love, and the good days of the 1970s are only just beginning!