After Becoming a Stand-In Bride for a Young Soldier in the 1970s, My In-Laws Thank Me Like Crazy

That year, Lin Zhixia was treated as a stand-in by her adoptive parents and married off to Jiang Man, whose leg had been injured.

Everyone thought she would simply accept her lot.

To their surprise, she laid down the rules in front of everyone: a one-year contract marriage, no interference in each other's lives, and freedom once the term was up.

More surprising still, this adopted daughter, dismissed by the Lin family as a "money-losing burden," studied hard in a dilapidated house and leaped from near the bottom of her class to the top ten in the monthly exams.

The Lin family panicked and tried to use her household registration to block her future.

But Jiang Man announced in front of everyone: "She's my wife. Who dares lay a hand on her?"

From a contract to falling in love, from testing each other to fighting side by side.

With her extraordinary memory and diligent study, Lin Zhixia made a comeback and founded a school for military families. With her by his side, Jiang Man stood again and returned to the battlefield.

Then an old copper lock engraved with the character "Xia" exposed the shocking truth behind a hospital baby switch twenty years earlier.

She wasn't the Lin family's adopted daughter, but the long-lost biological daughter of a prominent family in the provincial capital.