Su Wanyi, a beautiful young woman from Shanghai with fair skin, a slim waist, and long legs, is sent to the windswept northern military district because of an old family marriage pact and the circumstances of the times. There, she is to marry Colonel Lu Changfeng, the legendary “Living Yama,” a coldhearted man who supposedly wants nothing to do with women.
When they first meet, the man is dressed in a crisp green military uniform, broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted, his eyes sharp as an eagle’s. Looking at the bare earthen-walled house before her, Su Wanyi’s eyes redden with hurt. “Colonel Lu, can we… call off this marriage?”
Lu Changfeng’s Adam’s apple bobs. His gaze passes over her reddened eyes, and his voice is hoarse but firm. “Military marriages are protected by law. Once you’re through my door, you’re my wife. I’ll take responsibility for you.”
She thought this bitterly cold borderland would be hell on earth. Who could have guessed that the so-called Living Yama would be a doting husband who always takes his wife’s side?
When she hurts her hand doing laundry, he takes over every backbreaking chore. When the other military families ostracize her and spread rumors, he grabs iron tongs and smashes a stone table, standing up for her in front of everyone. When someone deliberately shortchanges her at the canteen, he piles the best braised pork into her bowl in front of the entire regiment. She even manages to cook up a pot of blackened, lumpy soup fit to rival poison, but he eats every bite without changing expression and insists, “It’s delicious.”
In the resource-scarce 1980s, when old and new ideas clash fiercely, watch this delicate Shanghai rose grow from a spoiled young lady who cries at the slightest thing into a respected teacher at a school for military families’ children and a rising star of the times who leads the military wives of the entire district to prosperity, all thanks to her rough-around-the-edges husband’s awkward tenderness and wholehearted devotion!
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