Lin Ruanruan transmigrates into a book as a doomed supporting character in the 1970s, about to be forced into marrying the village chief’s dim-witted son.
To save her own life, she decides to steal the future richest man in the original story, a male educated youth, and use the old “first get pregnant, then make it official” trick.
On a moonless, windy night, beside a reed marsh, water splashes softly.
Lin Ruanruan sees a broad-shouldered, narrow-waisted figure with bulging muscles in the river. She steels herself, throws her arms around the man’s waist, and coos, “Big brother, my foot hurts. Could you carry me back to the educated youth compound?”
The man stiffens all over. When he turns around, his eyes are colder than the night, and his voice is low and hoarse. “Let go and look at who I am!”
Dazed by his hormones, Lin Ruanruan thinks he’s playing hard to get. She traces the scar on his chest and sweetly calls him “big brother.”
The next day, the whole regiment is in an uproar! Regiment Commander Lu Zhengye, known as the “Cold-Faced Yama,” has come back in the middle of the night with a disheveled young woman slung over his shoulder.
Just when Lin Ruanruan thinks she’s found a powerful protector, the real male lead, the fair-skinned, clean-cut male educated youth, comes running over and salutes Lu Zhengye. “Uncle! What brings you here?”
Lin Ruanruan freezes: She hit on the wrong man! The man she seduced isn’t an educated youth sent to the countryside, but the princeling of the capital’s most powerful circle, the youngest senior officer in the entire military region, here on an inspection!
She makes a run for it that very night, catching a train with all haste, but Lu Zhengye corners her at the back entrance of the supply cooperative.
The man points to the unmistakable ring of love bites on his neck. He smiles as if amused, but smoldering anger surges in his eyes. “You called me ‘big brother’ all night, and now you’re pretending nothing happened? The marriage application’s been approved. Put your thumbprint on it!”
