The 1970s: The Chaste Officer Is Forced to Take Cold Showers Night After Night

[1970s setting + marriage before love + roguish man and wicked woman + devoted to each other + joining the army + face-slapping + love growing over time + abstinent officer]

Su Tang got married.

She married Shen Yanshen, the notorious rogue officer known for miles around: foul-tempered, cold-faced, and supposedly cursed to outlive his wives. No one dared marry him.

The whole village waited for a spectacle. How could a delicate young educated woman survive being tormented by that devil?

But who could have guessed

Her mother-in-law made things difficult? Su Tang smiled sweetly. “Mom, that’s a wonderful point. I’ll write to the organization and ask them to learn from your fine principles.”

Her sister-in-law stirred up trouble? Su Tang nodded warmly. “You’re right, Sister-in-law. Shouldn’t we bring out those three pounds of ration coupons you’ve been hiding and learn from them too?”

The neighbors gossiped? Su Tang sighed. “Auntie, you’re so good with words. How come you never went to a grievance meeting back in the day?”

Everyone was left fuming, yet no one could find a single thing she’d said wrong.

Every day, the officer supposedly cursed to outlive his wives came home with a stern face, only to find her smiling on the kang

Shen Yanshen: “...Who did you take down this time?”

Su Tang blinked innocently. “No one. I was just being reasonable.”

The whole military district: “Sister-in-law’s reasoning could talk a person straight into their coffin.”

Eventually, everyone realized that the seemingly softest and easiest-to-bully military wife was actually the most terrifying person in the whole residential compound.

And that supposedly wife-cursed devil of an officer had long since been wrapped around her little finger.