The Delicate Girl Heads to the Frontier in the 1970S

[Period setting + pampered heroine + intense romantic tension + flirtation + everyday life on the frontier + face-slapping the worst sort of people] When Su Jiaojiao suddenly arrives on the northwestern frontier in the 1970s, she is dumbfounded. She grew up in the watery towns of Jiangnan. Yellow sand fills the sky, the earthen house is drafty, and her father, who came to support the frontier, has just died of illness. The vicious neighbors around her are like wolves and tigers, eager to devour the family’s property. They even want to snatch a two-foot coupon for dacron cloth! How is she supposed to survive this hellish start? Su Jiaojiao says: If I can’t beat them, I’ll call in backup! Who says life on the frontier is hard? Jiaojiao thinks the chests of five rugged men are plenty warm. The iron-blooded border-guard company commander wraps her in his army coat and says in a husky voice, “Anyone who dares bully you, I’ll shoot him dead.” The wild Kazakh man lifts her onto a fine horse with one arm, his gaze as fierce as a wolf’s. “My little lamb, come back to the yurt with me.” The corps’ farm-machinery operator pins her behind a golden wheat stack, brushing the awn from the corner of her mouth with his rough fingers. The steelworks director brings her boxes of White Rabbit milk candy just to watch her lips glisten as she sucks on a sweet. And then there’s the roguishly handsome geologist, warming her with his body heat in a tent on the desolate Gobi…