The Abstinent Officer Dotes Only on the Down-and-Out Heiress Sent to the Countryside

[Both leads are faithful + sweet romance + celibate hero]

Everyone says Shen Zhiwan, who fell from the Shanghai elite and was sent to the Great Northern Wilderness, is a pampered flower that would break at a touch.

Her identity as a capitalist’s daughter weighs heavily on her. In the frozen wasteland, amid coarse grain and wild vegetables, the whole company waits for her to freeze or starve to death and break down in tears.

No one expected her to use her unparalleled Shanghai cooking skills to turn the company’s meager mess hall into a place everyone in the division clamors to eat at.

Her slender white hands knead dough, an old apron cinches her delicate waist, and her gentle features conceal a proud spirit.

The cold, celibate Colonel Huo is a battle-hardened man with no weaknesses, yet he keeps watch at the mess hall every day just to catch a glimpse of her.

Late at night, as snow falls, he blocks her dormitory door, his voice hoarse with restraint:

“Zhiwan, stay in the Great Northern Wilderness. Don’t go back.”

The young woman stiffens, the stubbornness of a fallen heiress in her eyes as she bites her lip and takes half a step back:

“Colonel, I’ve been sent here for reform. I wouldn’t dare reach above my station, much less become an officer’s wife.”

The man advances step by step, his dark gaze fixed on the tips of her reddening ears, forceful yet restrained:

“But what I’m missing is a military wife who can cook and knows how to care for me.”

In the frozen wilderness, with thousands looking on coldly,

only the battle-hardened colonel carefully takes this fallen golden branch under his wing, protecting her with tenderness for all the years to come.