In her previous life, she was the “Scorpion,” an expert feared by arms dealers around the world. She devoted her life to national defense, then died of overwork in her laboratory. When she opens her eyes again, she has become an army wife everyone can bully, a “doormat,” in a military compound in 1983.
From the start, her awful mother-in-law shows up to throw a tantrum, her husband is stationed at the border year-round, and the family is so poor they can barely afford food. On top of that, snobbish neighbors trample all over her? Lin Manzhi gives a cold laugh, rolls up her sleeves, and gets to work!
She repairs trucks, upgrades radar, and builds drones! In an era when the West strictly restricts access to technology, she uses scrap parts to hand-build technology twenty years ahead of its time, turning a dilapidated military family compound into a “mysterious research base” feared around the world.
He is a young major general, cold and steely. At first, he thinks he has married a delicate crybaby and is ready to write up divorce papers. Later, watching a crowd of veteran generals vie to recruit his wife, and seeing the confident “national hero” on TV directing operations with unruffled authority, Huo Tingyu quietly tears up the divorce papers. His eyes red, he pins her against the wall. “Wifey, the country belongs to everyone, but you... belong to me.”
One day, a foreign reporter interviews the chief designer of Hua Country’s new fighter jet. Reporter: “I hear your designs are thirty years ahead of the rest of the world. What inspired you?” Lin Manzhi, casually wiping down her gun: “Oh, the coal stove at home broke that day, so I happened to upgrade it into a turbofan engine.” Reporter: “...”
The heroine is a technical genius, cool and obsessive, never a do-gooder or a pushover, and always ready to put anyone in their place. The hero is aloof at first and devoted later. Together, they’re a formidable couple, evenly matched.
