Luo Ying's Military Life [The 1980s]

Luo Ying transmigrated into the second daughter of the Luo family in Luo Village in the 1980s. She was twenty years old. The cripple from the neighboring village whom she had married had died, and her parents were already planning to bleed her dry a second time.

Zhou Zhengdong's first wife had died, leaving behind a four-year-old daughter. To care for her, he brought his mother to live with him, along with the families of his eldest and third brothers. The household had grown, but the place was still cold and joyless, and his little girl was becoming quieter by the day.

Luo Ying was a distant relative of the camp political instructor, connected to him through nine twists and turns. She was matched with Zhou Zhengdong as his second wife. It was like a thorn had been stuck into the Zhou family's peaceful life, and suddenly the household was in an uproar...

But, you know what? Amid all that chaos, the days somehow started to feel warm.

Ever since Luo Ying joined her husband at his military posting, she had seemed out of place in the military housing compound.

The other soldiers' wives thought she was too affected. They were all country bumpkins with mud on their shoes, so why did she speak so primly and fuss over every little thing?

The wives of the officers thought she was too vulgar and gossipy, bringing the shameless, uncouth ways of a village shrew into the compound and ruining its atmosphere.

No one wanted to deal with her.

But Luo Ying seemed not to notice. Today she'd visit the family next door to borrow a needle and thread; tomorrow she'd visit the family across the way to borrow scraps of cloth. Whenever she saw the military wives gathered to chat, she'd insist on squeezing in and adding her two cents.

"You say Sister Qiao got beaten by her husband? You heard wrong. She beat him."

Someone asked, "How do you know?"

Luo Ying declared with conviction, "Our families are as close as one big family. When she kicked her husband in the butt, I was the one holding his head down for her."

Everyone stared at her in silence. Are you sure? Weren't you the one they reported to the regiment last month for wrecking their marriage?

They kept disliking her, until one day Luo Ying was gone. The military wives suddenly realized their lives felt as if they had lost their most important seasoning. Nothing felt right anymore.

They had no interest in chatting outside. At home, when they argued with their husbands, all they could do was get talked into tears. They couldn't even do anything when their husbands gave away the military-family job they were about to get as a favor to someone else...

After thinking it over, they realized their backbone was gone. Luo Ying, please come back! We need you!

Theme: Self-reliance and strength.