The 1970s: After Tricking an Amnesiac Tycoon, I Just Want to Run Away

Lin Mo wakes up to find herself the shrew everyone avoids in the Hongxing Production Team of the 1970s.

Looking at Zhou Jingsui, the muscular, high-level engineer from the capital who has bumped his head and lost his memory, she steels herself and blurts out a huge lie: “What are you staring at? I’m the wife you properly married before you went to the countryside!”

She had planned to rely on this able-bodied man to earn work points and get them through the famine, while secretly putting her modern, top-notch tailoring skills to use, taking private commissions, and saving enough money for a train ticket so she could make a quick getaway.

Who could have guessed that by day, this man would be a good hand in the fields, but at night, once the door was shut, he’d leave her nowhere to run?

“Lin Mo, why are you waving the thimble hand around?”

“It’s stuffy. Move over, you’re blocking me from threading the needle.”

“Isn’t it only natural for me to stay close to my own wife?”

Much later, when a Beijing jeep arrives in the village to take him away, Lin Mo packs up bolts of fine cloth overnight and prepares to slip away, only for Zhou Jingsui to corner her beside a crumbling earthen wall.

The man lowers his head and whispers by her ear, “A liar should still play by the rules. You tricked me out of my work points and my innocence, so you can pay me back with the rest of your life.”