In 1988, for a life-saving payment of 30 yuan, 18-year-old Ruan Mianmian was sold to a border guard station thousands of miles away and married to a man she had never met before, as cold as ice and as hard as iron - the head of the border guard regiment, Lu Ye.
Everyone said that she flew up the branches and turned into a phoenix.
Only she knows that this is not the Phoenix Nest, but an animal training ground. And she was the trembling lamb trapped in the cage, sleeping with the wolf every night.
Lu Ye gave her a bunch of rules: she was not allowed to go to his bed, she was not allowed to touch his things, and she was not allowed to say that they were husband and wife.
He was like a harsh judge, peeling away the layers of her with his scrutinizing eyes, but when she was being bullied, he turned into the strongest shield and stood in front of her.
He would test her forehead temperature over and over with his rough palms late at night when she had a fever; he would throw the only apple in the group into her rice bowl with an expressionless face; he would drive her greedy relatives out of the military camp gate without mercy.
