The 1960s: A Darling Bride Spoiled by Her Hunter Husband

[Marriage swap + alternate 1960s setting + female educated youth sent to the countryside + biased family + mountain wilderness space + hunting in the deep mountains + eerie legends of a forbidden mountain + rough-hewn sweetheart + face-slapping revenge]

Her sister steals the city job meant for her, then her whole family forces her onto a train and makes her go to the countryside in her sister’s place, marrying a cold-faced hunter rumored to live at the foot of a forbidden mountain.

Everyone expects Shen Tang to freeze to death in some ravine.

In the barren 1960s, while everyone else digs for wild herbs, she unexpectedly unlocks a mountain wilderness space: its black soil can grow crops, its spring water can heal injuries, and the game and medicinal herbs in the deep mountains let her quietly build up the means to turn her life around.

On their wedding night, the rugged Gu Zheng slips her his ration coupons. “We can pretend this marriage is just for show, but I’ll protect your life.”

Later, when her parents come with her sister to steal back the marriage, they discover the poor hunter they looked down on is no pushover, and the daughter they abandoned has become the wealthiest person in the whole village.

But when Shen Tang follows an old jade clasp into the forbidden mountain, the guardian who vanished many years ago suddenly appears. “You’ve finally come back. The one who was switched all those years ago wasn’t your sister…”