[Period Setting | Transmigration | Military Marriage | Marriage First, Love Later | Farming and Business | Plant-Based Powers | Combating Desertification | Advancing the Nation Through Science | Reform and Entrepreneurship | Two Strong Leads, Sweet Romance]
In her previous life, agronomy professor Ji Minghe spent half her life struggling, only for her husband to cheat with a female student and hand over ten years of her research to his mistress. She spat up blood, opened her eyes again, and found herself a frail military wife who had married far away to the northwest in the 1970s.
Her uncle’s family had stolen her parents’ compensation money, while her cousin, unwilling to endure the harsh borderlands, had shoved her onto a train to take someone else’s place in a marriage. The original owner had been bullied at every turn. Even watering a vegetable seedling had earned her a scolding as a temptress trying to seduce the regiment commander. Ji Minghe glanced at her own young, beautiful face, then at the broad-shouldered, long-legged, quiet and dependable commander beside her, and suddenly thought:
Her last life had been hard enough. Why should she put up with this one too?
She would settle accounts with everyone who had wronged her, one by one, and reclaim everything that belonged to her, with her name and credit intact.
She took the college entrance exam, bred new crops, and built factories. She sold sea buckthorn from the borderlands across the country and gradually turned the barren Gobi into an oasis.
As for the cold-faced commander who had initially agreed only to honor his responsibilities as a husband...
By day, he helped her dig trenches, drive stakes, and protect her experimental fields. At night, he held her captive in his arms and murmured:
“Professor Ji, now that the fields are planted, shouldn’t you pay some attention to your man?”
It wasn’t until years later that Ji Minghe discovered the so-called marriage substitution had been a deception from beginning to end.
The marriage certificate her uncle had hidden had always borne her name. She had never been anyone’s substitute.
She was the woman Gu Yanchuan had truly intended to marry, and the one who turned a sea of sand into thousands of acres of green oasis.
Super pretty!!!