A Beautiful Woman's Sweet Daily Life as a Military Wife in the 1970s

A pampered, delicate young lady whose family has fallen on hard times vs. a crude, unruly military officer born to a poor peasant family.

Yu Xi transmigrated at the worst possible time: just as the original body's family was reported for having the wrong class background and she was forced to go to the countryside as an educated youth.

In her previous life, Yu Xi had finally won ten million in the lottery and was ready to retire from her miserable life as a medical student. Now she stared silently at the thin rice porridge in her chipped bowl, which was mostly water.

She hadn't enjoyed a single day of good fortune, but she'd had a full helping of hardship at every meal.

She thought of her delicate, teary-eyed constitution, the kind that got her hand cut when she picked up a piece of straw and made her cough until she cried whenever she tried to start a fire.

Her gaze turned to Lin Yue next door, who had returned home to visit his family and was being pressured by his parents to go on a blind date.

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Lin Yue had never been interested in delicate, fragile things that seemed liable to break at a touch.

That is, until a soft, dainty young woman with smiling eyes and porcelain-white skin appeared in front of him.

Lin Yue, whose heart had suddenly started bungee jumping: I want her! I have to make her mine!

When the young woman listed a whole string of benefits to being with her and proposed a marriage of convenience, Lin Yue automatically ignored the bothersome words "of convenience." He only felt like he'd been struck senseless by this sudden, wonderful surprise.

Afraid of scaring off the girl he'd been longing for, he waited a full 0.1 seconds before giving a reserved nod.

Yu Xi, who wouldn't have to go to the countryside and suffer after all: Yay!

Lin Yue, who'd successfully won himself a beauty: Yay!

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Xu An transmigrated into an era novel as the villainous cannon-fodder ex-wife who drugs the male lead and forces her way into his life early in the story. She wakes up in the aftermath, with the room in disarray after she's drugged him.

In front of her is a man's broad, muscular back, covered in red marks. Outside the door, a crowd pounds on it, shouting, "Bang, bang, bang," as they come to catch them in the act.

Xu An, who'd just transmigrated and been forced to clean up this mess: I want to die!

But perhaps her transmigration had made the butterfly flap its wings the wrong way.

The one caught in bed with her was the male lead's short-lived stepbrother, a bad-tempered, ugly man who would later die on a mission.

Xu An silently swallowed as she looked at the rugged, handsome man before her. His muscles filled out his sleeveless undershirt without leaving a sliver of space, and a scar ran along the corner of his eye.

And they called this top-tier specimen ugly?

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Lu Zheng hated being manipulated, especially when he had to grit his teeth and marry a woman he loathed, one who clearly liked Jiang Lie but had still gone out of her way to seduce him.

After they married, Xu An seemed to undergo a complete change of heart and promised to make a good life with him.

At first, Lu Zheng sneered in disdain. If he hadn't seen all the stupid things Xu An had done to Jiang Lie over the past few years, he might actually have believed her.

So he left early and came home late, sometimes not returning for ten days or half a month. Out of sight, out of mind.

Later, he bent down and nuzzled the neck of the person in his arms, wanting to have a child with Xu An and settle down together.

The tender, affectionate look in Xu An's peach-blossom eyes vanished in an instant. "Things are good just the way they are."

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Jiang Lie was sick of Xu An.

Sick of how she always clung to him, caring only about her own feelings and wishes.

Sick of how whenever she caused trouble, he had to clean up her mess because of the relationship between their families.

Sick of how she knew he had feelings for her cousin Xu Ling, yet still drugged him and schemed to make him marry her.

So he turned a blind eye to everything Xu Ling did afterward.

Xu An became his sister-in-law.

At first, he was relieved to have finally gotten rid of Xu An.

Until Lu Zheng died on a mission.

Only then did he realize that what had once brought him the greatest relief had now become his greatest regret.

He hated the title of "sister-in-law." He wanted to take Lu Zheng's place.

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