(Mistaken identity + tragic, handsome male lead with a wounded, insecure puppy side + career-focused, romantically clueless female lead + historical era + transmigration into a book set in the 1970s + Inner Mongolia + spacious-apartment cheat + military surveyor + army doctor + marriage before love) Jiang Yi transmigrates into a book as the villainous biological daughter. After returning to her birth parents, she is neglected. She competes with the heroine for a man and meets a tragic end. Knowing how the story goes, Jiang Yi packs her things and heads to Inner Mongolia to marry the man she was betrothed to as a child. (The heroine is a biological daughter, but not the biological daughter in the book.)
She never expects her betrothed to think she’s a country bumpkin who isn’t worthy of a cadre’s son. He finds someone to take his place and marry Jiang Yi instead. Jiang Yi is face-blind and doesn’t realize the mistake. She really does end up registering her marriage to Fu Xiangdong.
The truth comes out right after they register, and Jiang Yi is stunned.
What now?
She can’t go home, and she’s married the wrong man.
Jiang Yi puts her hands on her hips and glares at the cold-faced man before her. “We agreed this was just a marriage of convenience! In two years, we’ll go our separate ways.”
Later, Jiang Yi devotes herself to the nation’s surveying and mapping work.
Fu Xiangdong has had a tragic life, and his world is dim and joyless. To him, Jiang Yi is like a bright moon, beautiful and radiant.
He loves her with the same reverence she gives this land.
Jiang Yi: “Love makes people softer. Fu Xiangdong, little by little, I’m starting to feel for you.”
The plot is awesome, good guy. It's the first time I've ever seen a scumbag child's lover die so simply.