The Brash Little Wife Arrives in the Capital, and the Coolheaded Academician Is Smitten

[Aloof, abstinent dreamboat + soft, flirtatious firecracker + 1980s + family and neighborhood drama + ensemble cast]

Jiang Li was notorious for being lazy, greedy, and shiftless across the surrounding villages. Even dogs would shake their heads and sigh at the sight of her. More than ten years earlier, their elders had arranged for Pei Xingyu to go to the countryside and bring Jiang Li to the capital for their wedding once she came of age. She’d spend the rest of her life decked out in gold and silver.

The day before her eighteenth birthday, she received a letter from Pei Xingyu breaking off their engagement.

He was calling it off?

No way!

Not even the King of Heaven could stop her from enjoying a life of wealth and luxury!

Jiang Li packed her bags and rushed to the capital, only to discover that Pei Xingyu had a “close female friend”!

And the Pei family was infested with a bunch of vile, freeloading relatives.

Jiang Li: The future in-laws’ money should all be hers. Those relatives were eating her flesh and drinking her blood!

They could dream on if they thought they could take advantage of her!

She tore into the relatives, and Pei Xingyu asked if her hands hurt.

She built factories and made a fortune, and Pei Xingyu praised her brains.

She rose to become an ace female combat pilot, and Pei Xingyu volunteered to serve as her military doctor, protecting her with his own body amid a storm of artillery fire…

Jiang Li was at her wit’s end. “Let’s get divorced. Professor Pei is way too clingy!”