The 1970s: The Cold-Faced Officer’s Dramatic Little Wife

[Period drama + military marriage + unhinged antics + the whole family dotes on her + everyday face-slapping + slow-burn romance]

When Lin Xiaxia opens her eyes, she has become a pitiful woman in the 1970s, drained by her awful eldest uncle's family and about to be sold to an old widower from the neighboring village for ten yuan in bride-price.

The original owner was so meek that she was driven to jump into a river. Lin Xiaxia won't put up with that! She flips the banquet table on the spot and grabs the leg of Gu Tingzhou, a cold-faced military officer back in the village for a blind date. “I'll be your wife. I don't want a single cent of bride-price. Just help me throw this awful family out!”

She thought she'd be in for a hard life after getting married, but she accidentally landed in a nest of good fortune.

Awful relatives show up to mooch off her? Lin Xiaxia rolls on the ground, strips off her clothes, and threatens to hang herself. “If you have no shame, I'll go even crazier than you!”

She thought her in-laws would reject her, but her tough-as-nails mother-in-law casually hands her a length of rope. “Daughter-in-law, use this one. It's sturdy!” Her sister-in-law puts her professional wailing skills to work, while her honest father-in-law quietly shuts the courtyard gate and lets the dog loose. The whole family joins forces and scares the awful relatives right out of the village in the middle of the night!

As long as I'm crazy enough, other people are the ones who suffer the mental strain!

Later, the cold-faced officer, who had thought they would simply share a home, not only never mentions divorce but hands over his entire salary, allowances, grain coupons, and meat coupons.

Late at night, the man pins her against the kang and murmurs hoarsely, “Wife, you didn't go crazy on me at all today. Does that mean you don't love me anymore?”