[Period setting + military marriage + miracle doctor + frontier military reclamation + everyday farming + no saintly heroine + no high-tech shortcuts]
Modern-day genius military doctor Su Wan wakes up to find herself transmigrated into the 1970s as a timid, doomed nobody, forced to take her younger sister’s place in the countryside.
Her biological mother died when she was young, her stepmother mistreats her, and now they want to use her as a stepping stone?
From the start, Su Wan smashes the family’s precious rice bowl and takes her household registration booklet to volunteer for the most remote and harshest military reclamation farm on the northwestern frontier!
In an era when buying fabric requires ration coupons and every meal is a sorghum bun, she braves the sandstorms and bitter cold. Armed with medicinal herbs, a few silver needles, and solid modern medical skills, she goes from a sent-down youth reclaiming wasteland in a crowded dormitory to a miracle doctor renowned throughout the northwestern border defenses.
She treats military horses foaming at the mouth, makes frostbite ointment using traditional methods, sets up a clinic that becomes the standard for the entire division, and even dabbles in trading tiger-bone medicinal wine on the black market.
Her life gets better and better, but the famously cold-blooded, iron-fisted, and heartless border regiment commander, Lu Lin, unknowingly becomes her number one “patient.”
Commander Lu frowns, clutching his chest. “Doctor Su, my old injury is acting up again. I may need you to treat me long-term.”
Su Wan grips her acupuncture kit and sneers. “Commander Lu, I think a few needles should make that old injury behave!”
The officers: ...Even the Living Yama dares to needle. The sister-in-law is mighty!