I Married a Rugged Man in the 1970s

After escaping her miserable family, Zhao Xiaotian arrived in the Great Northern Wilderness and howled at the sky. Being reborn couldn't change her IQ, but she could change where she lived!

Now she had two problems:

1. How could she stay in the Great Northern Wilderness and become a permanent local?

2. Now that she knew about so many good opportunities from her past life, should she take advantage of them this time around?

Before long, her gaze turned resolute: Find a man who's easygoing, well-behaved, and kind, marry him, and settle down. She had to grab every opportunity!

So she left her useless parents behind and set her sights on the handsome young soldiers.

She thought, Soldiers were great: broad shoulders, narrow waists, long legs. They'd be perfect for a beauty like her, with her fair skin!

Cao Zhendong came from a good family and had plenty of ability. The problem was that he was huge, rough around the edges, cold and aloof, and scary enough to stop a child crying at night. No family wanted to marry their daughter to such a boor who had no idea how to be romantic.

The young women in the military who were the right age all coveted his family background and abilities. They tried everything they could, but all came away empty-handed.

The Cao family and the military leaders were worried sick. They dreamed of a bodhisattva who could tame this menace.

Just when everyone thought he would spend his life alone, they suddenly saw him bringing his partner to file a marriage application.

Onlookers hungry for gossip: ?

The girl was timid and sweet, like a peach. She and that dark-faced man were a terrible match. She'd surely never put up with a boor who didn't know how to be romantic!

They waited and waited, only to discover that...

The soft, sweet young woman was a workaholic who could make people cry with a hands-on-hips scolding. She wasn't a peach at all, but a fiery little chili pepper!

And the huge, burly man was practically an accessory to his wife. His voice turned sweet as syrup when he spoke to her. He wasn't clueless about romance at all; he was a master at pampering his wife!

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In this life, Ye Cheng had just one passion: delicious food. So when he got his hands on a rare delicacy from one of his subordinates, he hurried home to share it with his family. They each took a bite, and soon the plate of mushrooms was empty. What a wonderful flavor!

Suddenly, the world spun around him and green spots danced before his eyes. His heart tightened. "Poison!"

Before he could finish speaking, thud, thud, thud. The whole family of three collapsed in a row.

The last thought in the mind of the family's youngest daughter, Ye Panxi, was: "There's one last bite left on the plate. I didn't get to eat it. What a waste!"

When Ye Panxi woke up again, the world had changed. She had been taken to a strange place where all the women had short hair and looked thin as bones. They even accused her of being unfilial and pushing her parents into a river.

Was she that kind of person? At most, she'd grab the last bite of food from the plate!

In this strange place, surrounded by strangers, she glanced to the side and saw a thin, unfamiliar couple lying next to her. Uh-oh, Ye Panxi had a bad feeling.

They recognized each other's faces: they were the ones who had eaten the mushrooms and ended up on a slab together.

She didn't dare say a word. Why had her perfectly normal parents suddenly changed so much?

After some enthusiastic villagers described their situation at length, the Ye family began to guess what had happened. Ye Cheng might only be a lowly seventh-rank county magistrate, but he kept his composure and gave his wife and daughter a reassuring look. "Don't worry. I've got this!"

Then came the face-slapping, and it came fast.

The seventh-rank county magistrate father, who couldn't lift a hand or carry anything on his shoulders: "What? Me? Carry a hoe and farm?!"

The beautiful mother, who loved looking good and enjoying life, and didn't like raising children: "What? We can't even stay warm?! And three kids?!"

The daughter, with her deep love of fine food: "What! We can't even eat our fill?!"

The family stared at one another. What kind of human misery was this? Even refined scholars had to curse the heavens: "Damn you, Heaven, for doing this to us!"

Theme: Many hands make light work.