On the Day of the Marriage Swap, I Became County Magistrate Lu's Housekeeper

At seventeen, before she had even graduated from high school, Yang Wan stood at the edge of a cliff.

Sent to the countryside? She would never forget the windburned, rough face of her third sister after she was sent down to the countryside.

Married off in an exchange? Grandma wanted to marry her to a forty-something bachelor who had beaten his first wife to death.

Get married? Her fourth sister said, “Hurry up and marry someone from the city. Then you’ll have city residency.”

Yang Wan gave a cold laugh. “I’m choosing none of those.”

She carried a plate of fish-fragrant eggplant and knocked on the new deputy county magistrate’s office door.

The man named Lu Jingshen appeared to be a young deputy county magistrate sent from above. In truth, he was on a secret mission, investigating enemy agents operating along the border. He suspected every unfamiliar face that approached him, but a plate of home-cooked fish-fragrant eggplant was the first thing to lower his guard.

He thought he only needed someone to cook for him, but before long, he found himself looking forward to every mealtime.

She thought she only needed a job, but before long, she had memorized one man’s tastes by heart.

From the stove to the heart, from suspicion to falling in love.

A sweet, feel-good story of striving in the 1970s, following Yang Wan’s rise from the stove to the heart.