[Period setting + military marriage + island foraging + spiritual spring space + drama-queen wife + tough, battle-hardened husband + marriage before love + scumbags get what they deserve]
Su Taotao, a master of traditional Chinese medicine and a psychological counselor, transmigrates into a book as an orphan in the 1970s whose biological mother poisoned her and left her mute.
Her reborn cousin steals her promising fiancé, a sent-down youth, then forces her to take her place in a marriage with Lu Xiao, a garrison regiment commander stationed on a remote island, whose face is disfigured, whose body is disabled, and whose temper is violent.
The whole village expects Su Taotao to be tortured to death. Instead, she binds herself to a spiritual-spring herb garden and happily heads to the island!
The island is short on supplies?
She combs the shore and finds treasures: giant lobsters, red grouper, and premium sea cucumbers fill her storeroom after the tide goes out. Her spiritual spring makes everything she raises delicious!
The military families make things difficult and exclude her?
Her mastery of medicinal cuisine wins over the entire compound. Her acupuncture and massage cure stubborn ailments, and she becomes the beloved darling of the whole island’s soldiers and civilians!
They say her husband is cold and vicious, and won’t live to see thirty?
On their wedding night, the iron-blooded living Yama, unapproachable in public, pins her against the stove in private, his eyes red and his voice hoarse and trembling. “Taotao, I’d give you my life. Don’t leave me.”
Later, Lu Xiao earns one distinguished military achievement after another and rises through the ranks. His leg is no longer disabled, he’s even more handsome, and he spoils his little mute wife rotten.
When the college entrance exams are reinstated, Su Taotao becomes the top student in the province. She leads the island’s military wives in building businesses and a pharmaceutical factory, making them all wealthy.
Meanwhile, the cousin who stole her sent-down youth in her previous life is left with an abusive, parasitic husband, weeping bitterly in regret…
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