The 1970s: I Bring My Child to Meet His Father, and My Powerful Family Is Finally Revealed

(Period drama + wild imagination + raising a child + military marriage + powerful woman with a secret identity + supernatural abilities + face-slapping + sweet romance + the whole family is overpowered)

In the winter of 1977, the mute Jiang Su drags her chubby, fair-skinned three-year-old from the mountains to the gate of a military district.

The little chubby boy points at the guard post and says in his baby voice, “Mommy, Daddy’s in there. Tuanzi can smell him!”

Special Forces Regiment Commander Lu Zhanting looks at the pale-faced village girl and her drooling, chubby kid, frowning deeply. “I’ve been single for twenty-seven years. Who are you?”

The entire military district waits to see this mother and child, who’ve come begging for handouts, get thrown out.

But then

The seemingly frail mute girl slaps an attacking bandit flying?

The chubby kid points at someone standing beside the political commissar and says, “He’s a bad guy,” and it turns out he really is a spy who’s been undercover for five years?

A month later, her “too poor to afford food” family arrives in the city.

The old farmer sticks in two needles, and a patient in a vegetative state opens his eyes.

Her honest, sturdy eldest uncle carries ammunition crates across the training ground, one in each hand, as if they were baskets of vegetables.

Her weepy aunt says a few words over the enemy’s radio, and the other side confesses everything.

Lu Zhanting looks back at his wife, who’s quietly feeding the chickens. Why is that chicken kneeling to her?

Everyone in the military district: Weren’t they supposed to be poor mountain folk? What kind of monsters are this whole family?!

Lu Zhanting opens his collar and corners her against the wall. “Jiang Sushu, how many more things are you hiding from me?”

Jiang Sushu slowly looks up, thinking: You’re the biggest secret of all.