War of Resistance: My Wife Helps Me Rise to Power

Genre: Transmigration, alternate history / War of Resistance military fiction / System-assisted

One-line synopsis:

Transmigrating into the role of a regimental commander's wife, doomed to see her village massacred, she awakens a Support System. Using foreknowledge and supplies, she transforms her husband's Shen Family Village into an iron fortress on the Songhu battlefield. “My wife helped me rise to greatness; every inch of our land is stained with blood.”

Core synopsis:

Modern novelist Liu Xiaoyu wakes up inside the unfinished manuscript of the War of Resistance novel she was writing, as the First Madam of Shen Family Village near Shanghai. Her fate in the original story is already sealed: less than a month after her wedding, Japanese soldiers infiltrate and seize control of the chain bridge in disguise, massacring all three hundred villagers. Her husband, Shen Changming, a top graduate of the Whampoa Military Academy, dies with them.

When she opens her eyes, only a month remains before the tragedy. Fortunately, she awakens the Support System. As long as she helps her husband, Shen Changming, the System rewards her according to the degree of assistance with weapons, medicine, medical supplies, and more.

Using her foreknowledge of the “original plot,” Liu Xiaoyu urges Shen Changming to bring home a full battalion of armed troops, claiming they should be prepared for any eventuality. Once back in Shen Family Village, she uses the System's rewards and her military knowledge to help her husband reinforce the natural defenses: mountains on three sides and a river guarding the village. She exposes the Japanese spies hiding in their midst and secures the control room, the fortress that holds the chain bridge's lifeline.

When the Battle of Shanghai erupts, Shen Family Village becomes a thorn driven into enemy territory. Liu Xiaoyu treats wounded soldiers with scarce medicines such as penicillin and sulfa drugs, building political capital in return. She arms the troops with mortars and Maxim heavy machine guns provided by the System, transforming a single battalion into an iron force that strikes fear into the Japanese.