A Marriage Swap in the Seventies: Marrying an Officer and Restoring Ancient Books

[Military marriage in the 1970s + arranged marriage swap and face-slapping + restoration of ancient books + farming and infrastructure]

In her previous life, she died a tragic death without managing to protect her family heirloom. Reborn on the very day she’s supposed to marry in an arranged marriage swap, Jiang Henian tightens her grip on a battered ancient book. With a cold laugh, she turns away from her scheming cousin and her uncle’s family’s coercion, and marries the “paralyzed” officer the whole village is laughing at.

The military compound is short on supplies, and her awful relatives are watching like hawks. Everyone is waiting to see this country girl make a fool of herself.

But Jiang Henian remains unruffled and pulls out a damaged book hidden in the lining of her old clothes. If she can gather the materials to restore its missing pages, she can inherit her ancestors’ powerful skills: identifying medicinal herbs and saving lives, making traditional dyes, improving saline-alkali soil, setting up cooperatives…

They say her husband is a cripple? The cold-faced officer Shen Yanzhou not only gets back on his feet, he pampers her like a queen!

They accuse her of profiteering? She turns around, gets into university, and becomes a restoration expert so esteemed that even the National Cultural Center treats her with deference. She leads the whole village to prosperity and tramples every last one of the scoundrels who harmed her underfoot!

Just as life is getting better and better, a mysterious collector from the provincial capital suddenly shows up, setting his sights on the damaged book in her hands.

This time, faced with a two-thousand-year family duty and the hidden currents of the antiquities black market, Jiang Henian will not give an inch!