A Marriage Decree in the Seven-Five Era: I Married My Sister-in-Law and Stole the Show

[1970s setting + marriage before love + older woman/younger man romance + an arranged marriage by the organization + life-and-death moments + badass heroine + satisfying revenge]

In 1975, Shen Mingyuan, a 26-year-old military staff officer, received an order: marry a 36-year-old “divorcée.”

Lin Yunqiu had once been the sharpest reporter in the provincial capital. After two marriages and ten years on a farm, she returned with a child, weathered by hardship.

On their wedding night, he glanced at her rough hands, then went to sleep in the next room.

Everyone was waiting for the spectacle.

“A promising young officer paired with an older woman who’s been married twice and has a child? The organization is ruining his life!”

Shen Mingyuan also thought this was nothing more than a political assignment.

Until a year later, when he was framed for colluding with the enemy and dragged onto a public denunciation stage.

Through the swirling snow, the woman he had neglected for an entire year ran twenty li barefoot, knelt outside the military compound, and brought out a crucial file she had risked her life to preserve for ten years. Word by word, she cleared his name.

Standing on the stage, he looked at her frail yet resolute figure in the snow and suddenly understood everything.

The fierce spirit in her deserved a lifetime of his protection.

After his name was cleared, he volunteered to leave the military and took her back to a small town in the south.

From then on, no one dared bring up her past again.