[Disguised as a man + Republican era + bickering couple + sweet romance + secret identity + the young marshal pursues his wife]
[An abacus whiz of a secretary and a cold, self-deluding young marshal]
To investigate the truth behind her brother’s near-fatal ordeal, Jiang Chunxi, the fifth daughter of the wealthiest family south of the Yangtze, disguises herself as a man and enters the Northern Army’s Quartermaster Department under the name “Jiang Xi.”
With her astonishing skill on the abacus, she catches the eye of the iron-blooded young marshal and is promoted from bookkeeper to confidential secretary.
Lu Beihuai develops an inexplicable curiosity about his overly delicate, refined “male secretary.” To get “his” attention, he starts a series of childish antics.
Jiang Chunxi rants inwardly: Is there something wrong with this man?!
But when she is gravely injured saving him, when he nearly loses control on the city wall, and when she realizes that this cold-faced marshal is suffering over his feelings for “another man,” she suddenly decides that something is not just wrong with him, it’s seriously wrong.
Then a business delegation from the south arrives, and her childhood sweetheart sets off Lu Beihuai’s thunderous jealousy.
Assassinations, kidnappings, and hidden enemies emerge from the shadows. She takes a bullet for him, and he risks everything by going alone to save her.
When the secret of her chest bindings can no longer be concealed, Lu Beihuai finally realizes the truth: the “same-sex attraction” he has agonized over for more than half a year was all one big misunderstanding.
Once her identity is revealed, he goes straight into doting-husband mode and turns the Quartermaster Department into a stage for pursuing his wife.
But Jiang Chunxi’s four older brothers are no pushovers. They set out in every direction to collect dirt on Lu Beihuai...
This is a story about a young marshal pursuing his wife in the Republican era, and about a female soldier disguised as a man uncovering her superior’s “secret.”
She thinks she’s hidden everything perfectly, never realizing that he has already decided in his heart: in this life, it can only be you.
