Spitfire of the Seventies: I Mistook a Top Scientist for a Hooligan

Cheng Shuangshuang, the butcher’s daughter, was known as the belle of Nanguan Market. No one had ever dared pick a fight with her. When she stood up for the little sister next door, she brought a brick down on a clean-cut man who was harassing her. But when the man woke up, he had amnesia and refused to leave her family’s home! The neighbors all laughed that she’d picked up a pretty boy who couldn’t carry a load or lift a finger. Yet the pretty boy could memorize anything he read, repair every radio in the neighborhood without a second thought, and solve the factory’s toughest technical problems at a glance. Then one day, several cars with special license plates pulled up at the alley entrance. A group of officials rushed inside and shouted excitedly at the pretty boy, “Engineer Shen, the country needs you!” Only then did Cheng Shuangshuang realize she might have just hit a national treasure.