[Strong, No-Nonsense Heroine] [Military Marriage in the 1970s] [Raising Kids] [Real and Fake Heiresses] [Mutual Healing] [Two Strong Leads Who Protect Their Own]
Ling Zheng, a special forces chief instructor, opens her eyes and finds herself transported into a period novel. She has become the real heiress who was forced into a substitute marriage with a violent cripple and must act as stepmother to three young future villains.
Her awful stepmother even steals all her rations from the start?
Instructor Ling sneers and immediately brings the boot camp's hardcore management style into play.
Her stepmother comes over to throw a tantrum? Ling takes her down with a full set of grappling moves, then beats the whole family into standing at attention and singing her praises.
The three little troublemakers refuse to eat and make a scene? She puts them through weighted cross-country runs and obstacle courses!
Everyone in the village expects Ling Zheng to be tormented to death by this ruthless family, but soon things take a wildly unexpected turn.
The village bully comes looking for trouble, and Ling protects her own more fiercely than anyone. The three dark, wary little troublemakers are completely tamed and follow her around every day, calling her “Mom.”
Meanwhile, Shen Yan, the retired officer rumored to be violent and paralyzed in both legs, watches coolly as his new wife turns the household upside down. Instead of getting angry, he quietly hands her a knife from behind the scenes.
Late at night, Ling Zheng slaps down the divorce agreement. “I've put the house in order for you. It's time for me to leave after completing my mission.”
But the supposedly crippled man, who should have been sitting in a wheelchair, suddenly rises to his feet. He grips her wrist with one hand and pins her against the door, his voice low and dangerous. “Instructor Ling, your grappling is impressive. But once you've locked on to a target, don't even think about retiring.”
Later, a wealthy family from the capital arrives in a car to collect their real heiress. The fake heiress waits to see Ling Zheng reduced to scavenging for scraps in the countryside, only to discover in horror that the supposedly crippled man is a decorated general who has spoiled Ling Zheng into someone no one in the entire capital dares to offend!