A Research Genius in the Northwest in the 1960s

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Yunzhi is a child bride. After a great flood devastates her hometown, she follows her parents' dying wish and goes to find the man she is meant to marry. But when she arrives at the research institute, he vehemently resists the arranged marriage and refuses to acknowledge her.

To comfort Yunzhi, the organization assigns her an important job: caring for sick researchers.

The bad news: The research big shot, whom Yunzhi considers the most beautiful man alive, has been ravaged by radiation and is plagued by illness.

The good news: Yunzhi can convert radiation into energy that repairs cells.

The handsome man is so flustered he refuses to let her touch him. "No, really, there's no need."

Yunzhi doesn't understand why he's being so shy. "I'll sneak a grope when it's dark, okay?"

When the big shot has an attack and the medical staff are helpless, Yunzhi hugs him and kisses him passionately. His symptoms ease instantly.

She kisses and touches the big shot, and he recovers.

Yunzhi becomes the base's precious treasure.

She thrives at the base, where everyone loves her. Besides doing security work, she can hunt sheep in the desert, gather goji berries, and pick sea buckthorn. Yunzhi thinks the work and life are both pretty good.

But the research big shot, with eyes bright as stars and a gentle, refined air, insists, "You're the only woman who's ever been physically close to me. We have to start dating."

Completed works: Eighties, Come Get Your Wife and Child; Eighties Professor's Everyday Spoiling of His Wife; In the Sixties, I Became a National Treasure After Turning Myself In; The Eighties Courtyard Beauty

Coming next: In Republican-Era China, I Only Want to Write Novels to Pay My Tuition

Luo Ruchu opens her eyes and finds she has transmigrated to Republican-Era China. She is the daughter of a mansion's maid. Her mother begged and borrowed to pay for her schooling, but she mixes with the young masters and misses and even claims to be the mansion's young lady, a relative of the family.

After being held back a grade for poor marks, she's about to help the eldest miss deliver a love letter to a married male teacher, take the blame for everything, and get expelled.

Faced with this bizarre predicament, Luo Ruchu: "..."

She promptly hands the letter back to the eldest miss. "I'm not getting involved!"

She's done sticking her nose into this mess.

When she sees her peers either getting scolded by their masters as apprentices in tailor shops or selling newspapers for a pittance to support their families, Luo Ruchu feels lucky to have transmigrated. She attends the best municipal high school, gets room and board at the mansion, and has a mother who spends all her wages on her.

It's also an era when newspapers and magazines are extremely welcoming to serialized novels. She just has to pick up a pen and write!

The first time the man sees Luo Ruchu, she's kicking her younger male cousin to the ground.

She wears a pale blue, wide-sleeved short jacket and a black mid-length skirt, fresh and elegant. But the toe of her black cloth shoe is planted hard in her cousin's backside, and when her clear, bright eyes turn toward him, they're filled with anger.

He wears an exquisitely tailored shirt and trousers. His thin lips shift slightly, and the aloof elegance of a noble young master and the sharp edge of an industrialist radiate from him.

"If he offends you again, hit him as much as you like. I'll take responsibility for whatever happens."

Theme: Blossoming in the face of adversity