[Demobilized soldier king × down-on-his-luck scholar | A sweet, devoted romance set in the 1980s]
Li Xiaomei transmigrates into the 1980s, becoming a woman who tends a coal-fired boiler.
Life is hard enough already, and on a snowy night she even finds a man who is nearly frozen to death.
He's as thin as a reed, yet when she is bullied, he forces himself to stand up for her:
“You saved me, so it's only right that I protect you.”
Fine. For those words alone, she'll take him in.
Later:
When the factory beauty takes a liking to him, she slaps her twice. “Trying to steal my man? You must have a death wish!”
When the section chief gives him a hard time, she bets she can fix a car, then leaves the chief red-faced.
When someone frames him, she uncovers the truth in three days and gets the liar kicked out.
The whole factory is afraid of her. He's the only one who isn't.
Because he knows that the woman who would risk her life to protect him outside
will curl up in his arms at home, blushing as she calls him an “idiot.”
Later still, people come from the capital.
Facing the man at her home who can only cook and wash feet, and even blushes when buying a new pair of shoes,
they respectfully call him...
[In one sentence]
She protects him, he dotes on her, and together they make a warm, bustling life.
