Island Life in The 1970s

Gu Wanghai was a man who rarely smiled or spoke. Before he got married, he didn't come home even once in a whole year. Afterward, whenever he had leave, he would invariably take a six-hour boat ride home, then return to the army still as stern and silent as ever. No one could tell why he bothered going home.

Everyone had seen Gu Wanghai go home, but no one had ever seen his wife come visit him on the island.

That changed when a supply cooperative opened on the island and Gu Wanghai's wife finally appeared there as a salesclerk.

When everyone saw the lovely Li Zhi, they couldn't help wondering. She'd never shown up before, but now that the island had a supply cooperative, she was here. What was she really after?

After Li Zhi had worked as a salesclerk for a while, everyone had to admit they were wrong. She'd been working at a supply cooperative since she was eighteen. She hadn't gotten the job through connections; she'd simply been transferred as part of a normal work assignment.

The island's supply cooperative wasn't as good as the one where she'd worked before, but for her husband, she was willing to come here and put up with the hardships.

Seeing how friendly she was, and how she never acted superior despite having a secure job, it was no wonder she'd won over that cold-faced tyrant.

With a wife like her, even ice, let alone stone, would melt.

They still didn't know which of them had melted the other at home.

[Reader's Guide]

1. Everyone is a native of this world. No rebirth or transmigration.

2. This is an entirely fictional setting. Please don't compare it to real life. Prices and living standards vary from place to place, so don't generalize.

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Daily Life in the Eighties

Reborn in the Eighties

A Couple in the Seventies

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Peace and Joy [Period]

[Blurb]

After twenty years in a marriage in name only, Jiang Suping looked at her gaunt husband. “If you go before me, I'll take care of your funeral, then follow you soon after. If there's another life, let's be married again.”

Who could have guessed she wouldn't have to wait for another life? Just a few days later, Jiang Suping returned to the age of twenty.

Twenty, with healthy legs and a healthy body.

And there was another wonderful surprise: her husband had returned too.

Jiang Suping thought the two of them could start a happy new life together, but it turned out that getting anything started was hard, and starting a happy new life was harder still.

Her husband couldn't shake the habits he'd formed over the past twenty years.

He couldn't feel safe without money, so he was willing to do any legal job, no matter how hard or exhausting, to save up for her medicine.

When he was hungry, he'd drink water. When she was hungry, he'd buy her whatever she wanted to eat.

He'd wear old clothes other people had thrown away, but buy her new clothes every year.

He was afraid to take work too far from home in case something happened to her, and whenever he had spare time, he'd come back to check on her.

For her sake, he'd given up countless possibilities in his life.

Having emerged from the shadows, Jiang Suping made up her mind: this time, she would be the one to treat him well.

Theme: The sea is wide enough for fish to leap