1970s: A North-South Mix-Up

Also known as "The Wrong Train in 1970: My Best Friend’s Brother Fell for Me", this is a period novel featuring two heroines, two heroes, strong female leads, military marriages, two top students, mutual rescue and healing, and swapped lives. If you enjoy period novels, give it a try!

In the summer of 1970, a torrential downpour, two trains, and two best friends who were top students led to a mix-up: they took each other’s suitcases, boarded trains going in opposite directions, and traded their entire lives.

Lu Zhixia, the daughter of a physics professor, heads south with a suitcase full of foreign-language “contraband.” She outsmarts human traffickers on the train, then is targeted in an assassination attempt the moment she gets off. As she lies gravely wounded and near death, her cousin, Company Commander Jiang Weimin, who was supposed to meet her at the station, risks everything to protect her. He stakes his future on keeping her safe, and a marriage certificate becomes her strongest shield in turbulent times.

Lin Wanqing, the orphaned daughter of a capitalist family, heads north carrying a top-secret physics book. After saving a gifted young child of Russian descent, she is drawn into a foreign plot to seize a treasure. With Russian as her blade and composure as her shield, she faces a hail of bullets and wins over the steely Company Commander Chen Zhiyuan, who willingly puts his life on the line for her.

A letter from home reveals a shocking truth: her father publicly disowned her to protect himself in desperate circumstances, and the marriage arrangement conceals a secret order concerning the fate of the nation.

The northern and southern storylines unfold side by side. In the north, there is espionage, gunfire, and enemies lurking within; in the south, there is nursing her wounds, protecting her, and love after marriage.

This is no sugary romance. In a turbulent era, two young women use their intelligence and pride to become their own strongest support.

Though their lives were switched between north and south, they still made lives unlike anyone else’s.