Healing Herbs in the 1980s: Thriving After Marrying a Rugged Veteran

Jiang Li awakened to the truth.

She discovered that she was merely a supporting female character destined to be cannon fodder in a period novel, there to make the heroine shine.

Her fiancé, Song Yuxuan, wanted to marry her cousin, a white lotus who lied through her teeth. To make it happen, he teamed up with his family to spread vile rumors about Jiang Li in public, force her to break off the engagement, and even marry her off to an old widower in the neighboring village.

Jiang Li sneered and promptly smashed the Song family’s engagement banquet, publicly ripping the hypocritical masks off the scum couple!

Just as the Song family jeered, “Now that the engagement is off, let’s see who’d dare marry a disgraced tramp like you,”

Jiang Li turned and grabbed the arm of a stern-looking man passing by: Song Yuxuan’s own uncle, and the most untouchable retired soldier in town, He Xiao.

“Commander He, would you dare marry me?”

His eyes were as deep and dark as ink. In a low, husky voice, he answered, “I will.”

Everyone expected Jiang Li to spend her life alone in a loveless marriage, tormented by the cold and brutal He Xiao.

What they didn’t know was that Jiang Li had a portable space stocked with Chinese medicinal ingredients and recipes. Not only did she cure He Xiao’s old injuries, she also made a thriving life for herself.

She topped the college entrance exams, opened a chain of medicinal cuisine restaurants, and developed herbal beauty products, building a vast business empire one step at a time.

Later, the once-arrogant Song Yuxuan knelt before Jiang Li with red-rimmed eyes, sobbing as he begged her to forgive him.

He Xiao pulled Jiang Li protectively into his arms and looked down at him coldly.

“Dear nephew, take a good look. This is your aunt by marriage.”