Transmigrating Into a Book Set in the 1970s: I Let Loose Without Burning Myself Out, and the Big Shot Dotes on Me

[The 1970s + military marriage + unhinged antics + no golden finger + marriage before love + the aloof flower comes down from her pedestal]

Jiang Qie transmigrates into a book, becoming the foil to the virtuous sister-in-law in a period novel: a spoiled, willful, high-maintenance younger sister-in-law who eventually dies a miserable death in the countryside.

The original heroine advises her, “You should be generous. Just put up with it, and it'll pass.”

Jiang Qie flips the table on the spot. “Put up with it? My breasts are perfectly healthy! Anyone who makes me unhappy will have their whole family in mourning!”

To avoid being sent to the countryside, Jiang Qie randomly picks a target in the residential compound and “stages an accident,” stopping Gu Chenzhou, the most untouchable, aloof genius at the research institute.

She gazes up at him with her bright, lovely face and makes her demands without a hint of shame:

“I'm delicate. I can't lift things or do hard labor.”

“I'm expensive to maintain. I need meat at every meal, and I only wear dacron.”

“So, are you going to marry me or not?”

Everyone expects Gu Chenzhou to throw this crazy woman out.

But the man, usually so restrained and cold, with his top button always fastened, gazes at her flushed eyes, his Adam's apple bobbing as he replies in a husky voice:

“I will.”

After the wedding.

Everyone in the compound waits for Jiang Qie to make a scene and get kicked out.

Instead, they see Gu Chenzhou kneeling on the floor, his large hands, so used to handling precision instruments, gently massaging Jiang Qie's ankle.

His eyes full of possessiveness, he pulls her into his arms and coaxes her softly: “You must be tired from yelling earlier. Drink some milk to soothe your throat and save your strength for tonight... when you can keep yelling.”

Content warning: The heroine's manners are questionable, and she gives as good as she gets. The hero seems cold and aloof, but is actually a hopeless romantic through and through.