Su Tao opens her eyes to find herself a mistreated young wife in the 1970s. She has to wait on her difficult in-laws and raise two stepchildren who are pale and painfully thin.
Make the children wash clothes in cold water in the dead of winter? Refuse to feed them?
Su Tao retaliates by smashing her father-in-law’s treasured bottle of Moutai, cutting up her mother-in-law’s new quilt cover, and taking every last bit of cash and ration coupons in the house. Then she takes the children and heads to the island to join her husband in the military!
She assumes Gu Yanzhen is a cold-faced regiment commander who neglects his family. But when they finally meet...
Seeing Su Tao’s alluring charm shine through even beneath her disheveled appearance, Commander Gu’s Adam’s apple bobs and his ears turn red. That very night, he hands over all his allowances. “You can have my money and my life. Can we please not get divorced?”
The island’s conditions are harsh? No problem. She’ll gather seafood, catch fish, cook up a feast, and grow flowers and plants to build a little paradise.
A beauty from the arts troupe comes by to offer some comfort? Su Tao smiles and hands her a bowl of... aphrodisiac soup. No, wait, a cooling soup. “Commander Gu’s running a little hot. This is just what he needs.”
That night, Gu Yanzhen corners her in the mosquito net, his voice husky. “Wife, I’m still burning up. You’ll have to take responsibility.”
