Reborn: I Became a Leftover Woman in the 1980s

In her previous life, Shen Changying married her childhood friend Zhou Xingyu to repay a debt of gratitude to her father. She thought that if they worked hard and lived honestly, they could build a good life together. In the end, it was all wishful thinking on her part. Zhou Xingyu passed his pilot's exam, but Shen's mother obstructed him at every turn, leaving him no choice but to give up. After they married, they became strangers who knew each other best. Childhood sweethearts turned into a resentful couple, spent half a lifetime nursing grudges, and never made peace before they died.

Reborn, Shen Changying would no longer let gratitude hold her captive. She decisively refused the marriage, joined the military, earned commendations for flood relief, studied for a military academy entrance exam, and practiced medicine on the battlefield, embarking on a new peak in life. Better to be a spinster than a bitter wife.

Zhou Xingyu lost his father when he was young, and his mother took the family money and remarried. The Shen family took him in and looked after him. The shadow of being abandoned by his mother took root in his heart. He naively believed that holding on to money and provisions would let him keep his beloved and protect the peace of their little home. In his previous life, he didn't ask for much. He worked himself to the bone to save money, hoping to build his wife a house and give their child the chance to study a little more.

He never knew that his taciturn nature would destroy his marriage.

Reborn, the money is my wife's, the ration coupons are my wife's, the fabric coupons are my wife's, and wherever my wife goes, I go!

His fellow soldier couldn't take it anymore. "You treat her like an ancestor, spending all your money on her. What if she runs off with another man?"

Zhou Xingyu shot him a sidelong glance. "It's not like I don't have legs. If she runs, can't I chase her?"

A little while later, he came over again to ask, "Got any money?"

His fellow soldier said, "So you are worried!"

Zhou Xingyu replied, "I want to save some money. If she takes off by bus, I'll need to buy a ticket."

His fellow soldier: ...He's hopelessly lovesick. There's no saving him.

Theme: Love yourself first, then the world