In the Eighties, I Only Wanted to Make Money, but My Jealous Officer Loves Me Too Much

[One devoted couple + follows him to the military base + career-driven heroine + doting hero]

Jiang Yan was an independent woman of the modern age, but overnight she found herself transported to the 1980s, trapped in the body of a pushover whose family was forcing her to marry an elderly widower. To escape the quagmire of her family, Jiang Yan turned her attention to the most unusual man in the military compound: Lu Xun, the cold, ascetic “living King of Hell,” rumored to be infertile after an injury.

She went straight to his door. “Battalion Commander Lu, want to team up and share a life? I’ll behave and stay out of your way.”

Lu Xun studied the clear-eyed woman with her unmistakable purpose, then nodded coldly.

A marriage certificate, and they each got what they needed. Jiang Yan followed the army north, carrying a secret pregnancy. She thought she’d be able to live in peace, but instead she stumbled into a nest of neighborhood squabbles. A spiteful neighbor picked fights, vicious relatives leeched off them, and the rumors around the compound could drown a person. Jiang Yan gave a cold laugh, put her acting skills to work, tore the fake sweethearts to shreds, kicked the troublemakers aside, and made a roaring success of her career.

Only the man who’d promised to treat her as nothing more than a shield started looking at her in a very different way. When her pregnancy finally began to show, the whole compound was stunned. He cornered her against the wall, eyes red, and demanded, “Tell me, whose child is it?”

Jiang Yan replied calmly, “Yours.”

“I...” Lu Xun was at a loss for words. Everyone on the base knew he had a condition. Yet as he looked at her certain little face, a corner of his heart began to waver wildly...