The 1960s: We Slept Together, So Why Are You Telling Me I Had the Wrong Person?

[Period setting + military marriage + exclusive devotion + marriage before love + family life]

When Xu Suisui was eighteen, she fell seriously ill and suddenly awakened to the truth: she was the foil to the heroine in a period novel. The heroine was Song Shiling, her half-sister, born to the same mother but a different father. Xu Suisui was the doomed supporting character, with only half a month left to live.

In the original story, her mother and stepfather sold her to an old man, and she met a tragic end. Her half-sister Song Shiling, meanwhile, used the job her biological father had traded his life to secure for her to rise smoothly through life, marry into a powerful family, and live happily ever after.

To escape her death sentence, Xu Suisui took over that job ahead of schedule. After her mother and stepfather drugged her several times, she refused to let their scheme succeed. Biting her lip, she grabbed the man who was supposed to be Song Shiling's in the original story and spent a wild night with him to get back at them, never suspecting she had the wrong man.

Gu Beiye had lived a disciplined, self-controlled life, until a red-eyed young woman dragged him into the depths that night.

When he woke, she had already slipped away, leaving only a note: “Borrowed you for a night. We owe each other nothing.”

He gripped the note and sneered. “You’ve eaten a soldier’s rations, and now you think you can run?”

Later, everyone in the compound waited to see the cold, formidable commander throw Xu Suisui out.

Instead, they watched Gu Beiye, who never showed anyone a hint of warmth, expose Song Shiling’s little tricks in public, then turn around and pin the woman slacking off against a wall.

“Mrs. Gu, it’s time to collect interest on last night’s ‘debt.’”

Xu Suisui rubbed her aching waist, fighting back tears. How could this man be even harder to endure than knowing the date of her own death…?