A cold, brooding military-industry research genius vs. a brilliant beauty and inheritor of intangible cultural heritage
【Alternate-history military marriage · doting husband · power couple rise to the top · satisfying story, no angst · old flame rekindled】
Wen Linghe transmigrates into a novel set in the 1970s, becoming the daughter of a production-team leader who was jilted by an educated youth and turned into a laughingstock across the commune.
Fortunately, she binds to a “Solar Terms Space,” where she can grow vegetables, keep food fresh, and store ancient books. She can’t turn any of it into money, but it gives her a hidden edge for turning her life around!
She also sets her sights on Shen Jingyu, a research genius in the original novel whose whole family is sent down to a neighboring production team. Others see him as a member of the “Black Five Categories”; she sees a future general.
Wen Linghe takes the direct approach and goes to him with a proposal:
“Comrade Shen, will you marry me? You need a stable place to stay, and I need to clear my name. We both get what we want.”
After three days of consideration, the taciturn, cold-faced Shen Jingyu agrees to the contractual marriage.
But after they marry, everything changes.
This mysterious military-industry big shot secretly learns her recipes, covers her with a blanket in the middle of the night, and calls her “wife” every night with his ears red, turning his icy reserve into tenderness!
Then trouble strikes again: Shen Jingyu is exonerated and returns to the capital, where the powerful flock to him.
A division commander’s daughter mocks Wen Linghe to her face as a “country bumpkin” and boasts that she’ll take her place.
Wen Linghe turns around, becomes the province’s top scorer on the college entrance exam, and arrives in the capital with her Peking University admission letter and triplets, giving them all a taste of face-slapping.
Later still,
She designs state banquets, facilitates international trade, and becomes the youngest head of a department at the Ministry of Commerce.
He devotes himself to developing the nation’s most advanced technology, becoming a general of the Republic and an academician of the Academy of Engineering.
From a cowshed and an earthen kang to Chang’an Avenue, from a marriage contract to a lifelong love.
He is the strongest support on her path to success, and she is the only moonlight in his barren years.
Not bad, bland and warm. No bullshit.