Joining the Army in the 1970s: I Humiliate Enemy Spies, Raise Kids, and Dote on My Officer

Qin Suian transmigrates into a period novel and becomes the substitute bride of Cheng Jianshan, an island garrison officer.

On their wedding night, her husband leaves on a mission, leaving her with two starving stepchildren, a jar of rice so empty she can see her reflection in it, and a yard full of awful neighbors waiting to laugh at her.

Just as she's worrying about how to get food, a ding rings in her head.

[I picked this up.]

She only picks up food from targets harboring evil intentions. Whatever a bad person has, she can pick up.

Two unlucky men in the back hills have just pried open a can of premium beef. Qin Suian looks at the meat that has appeared out of thin air in her hands, then at the red dot on her radar, where someone is cursing and having a breakdown.

It clicks.

Bad guys = walking delivery drivers.

From then on, everything changes.

While the bad guys chew tree bark, she guiltily murmurs, "I picked this up."

While they kneel and cry, "Spare us, Mountain God!" she sneaks a chocolate filled with liquor into her mouth. "I picked this up too."

When a ship approaches from the sea, she stares at the cans, powdered milk, and compressed biscuits on her radar and swallows. "Cheng, the New Year's provisions are here. Of course, I picked them all up."

The cold-faced man returns early and frowns at the table piled with imported chocolates.

Qin Suian looks guilty. "I said... I picked them up. Do you believe me?"

Cheng Jianshan is silent for a moment. "...I believe you."

Not only does he believe her, he imagines she's been "deeply wronged" and "selling her dowry," and with red eyes, hands over his entire salary to her.

Later, the people all over the mountain grow so hungry they lose their minds and run downhill in tears to turn themselves in.

The higher-ups are stunned. "How did you do it?"

Cheng Jianshan replies expressionlessly, "My wife said she picked it all up."

Qin Suian quietly counts her money nearby, keeping her achievements to herself.