After Becoming a Substitute Bride in the 1980s, I Use My Medical Skills to Take the Lead

Transmigration + period setting + military marriage + Marriage Before Love + strong heroine + medical skills + sweet romance + comeback

Su Zhiyi, a cardiac surgeon at a top-tier hospital, worked nonstop for thirty-six hours and died at the operating table.

When she opened her eyes again, she had become a “problem element” in the Gobi Desert of the northwest in 1983. Her parents were under investigation, she had been framed, and her reputation was ruined. A marriage agreement bound her to Gu Weijiang, a border defense company commander she'd never met.

An ox cart took her to the outpost. There was no wedding, no red decorations. On their wedding night, her husband received a patrol assignment and disappeared before dawn. The military wives watched coldly. “The last one couldn't stick it out. She left in tears after three days. How long do you think you'll last?”

Su Zhiyi didn't cry. She looked over the outpost's infirmary: antiseptic that had expired four years ago, moldy gauze, and a bottle of alcohol nearly empty. The medic said it took a day and a night to transport a critically wounded patient to headquarters. She asked what happened to those who couldn't make the trip in time. The medic opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

She swallowed the words she wanted to say, spread out a sheet of rough paper beneath the kerosene lamp, and wrote her first line: Recommendations for the Outpost Infirmary.

She thought it would take a long time to make a life for herself in this barren wasteland. She had no idea that the silent, scarred man, the first time he saw her writing by lamplight through a crack in the door, would never be able to look away.