After a 1970s Marriage Swap, the Cold-Faced Officer’s Inner Thoughts Are Wild

Military-marriage sweetness # transmigrate into a book # mind-reading # marriage swap and face-slapping # heroine doesn't put up with mistreatment # neither a saint nor prone to overthinking

Opposites attract: a sweet, gentle healer heroine versus a short-lived military officer who seems cold-blooded but has an overactive imagination.

Mind-reading may help her avoid danger, but hearing her husband cling to her in his thoughts every day is such a headache!

Gu Chuxue transmigrates into a book as a cannon-fodder character. She's supposed to marry the mild-mannered official Pei Wenyuan, but her reborn older sister Gu Chuyu schemes to switch the brides and foists her off on Pei Ye, a border officer rumored to be headed for dangerous missions and certain death. At the forced wedding, Gu Chuxue unexpectedly unlocks a special ability: she can hear Pei Ye's thoughts and no one else's.

In public, he's taciturn and cold, every word distant. In his heart, though, he's full of lovesick musings, secretly worrying that she might be mistreated and vowing to protect her for life. Gu Chuxue decides to go along with it and join him in the Gobi. Armed with knowledge of both Chinese and Western medicine, she settles into the military hospital. Using what she hears, she repeatedly helps Pei Ye escape deadly situations and follows the trail to uncover a long-buried conspiracy involving counterfeit medicine smuggling by the logistics department and leaks about an old mission.

While Gu Chuyu marries into the Pei family and spends her days trapped in the emotional abuse of a hypocrite, Gu Chuxue and Pei Ye save each other and weather the storms of sand and death together.