The Doctor Who Traded Marriages in the 1970S

[Coming Next: “In the Seventies, Fate Has a Way of Bringing People Together” is open for follows] As soon as Fan Yunying transmigrated, she found herself on her wedding night. Her scar-faced groom looked as cold as ice. “If you don’t want this, the marriage doesn’t have to count. Hanging yourself is the stupidest thing you could do!” Her birth mother, eager to curry favor with her stepfather, forced her own daughter to give up her childhood betrothed: the handsome, promising publicity officer at the textile mill, son of the head of the department-store purchasing department. She gave him to her stepdaughter instead. Then she forced her own daughter to marry her stepdaughter’s fiancé, Liang Mu, the son of her stepfather’s war buddy. He already had a fearsome face, made even more frightening by a scar, enough to make the neighbor’s children cry. And that wasn’t all: his family lived in the countryside, in a mud-brick house, with no brick home in sight. His mother was frail and sickly, and his younger siblings were still babies who needed constant care. Compared to that, no wonder the original owner had lost all hope. But where could she go if she left? There was no place for her in her old home, and she didn’t want to marry a stranger. “Can you take me in for half a month?” Half a month would be enough time for her to figure out somewhere to settle. Liang Mu: “One month. And you have to help me look after my younger siblings!” He had a case that would take a month or so to handle. His mother was ill and his siblings were little, so someone had to care for the family. Fan Yunying: “Deal!” That month, Fan Yunying cured Liang Zijie’s mother, the brigade chief’s only child, and the wife of Dazhu, who had suffered a difficult labor. She treated the brigade members’ various minor ailments, and even cured the brigade’s sick ox. Word spread of her outstanding medical skills, and people from all the villages for miles around came to seek treatment. Even people from the county town came. As she cured more and more difficult cases, her fame grew, and the county hospital offered her a permanent position. The one-month contract was up. Fan Yunying was just about to pack her things and leave the Liang home for the county hospital when Liang Mu stopped her at the door. “A life-saving kindness should be repaid with your hand in marriage. You saved my mother, so I’ll repay her debt. From now on, I’m yours.” Fan Yunying was dumbfounded. She really wanted to ask him, Liang Mu, what happened to your face? Where was the Liang Mu who used to scare the neighbor’s children into tears? ** Liang Mu was a capable man with a fierce temper. Young officers at the Public Security Bureau took detours to avoid him. People had even nicknamed him King of Hell Liang. And yet this very King of Hell was discovered to be afraid of his wife. It started when someone saw him coaxing her. King of Hell Liang, big as a black bear, knelt timidly on a washboard. “Honey, I was wrong. If I ever do it again, I’ll drink bitter melon juice for a month. No, two months!” People also heard that King of Hell Liang kept a notebook full of household rules his wife had laid down for him. The punishments were all over the place: kneeling on a washboard, drinking bitter melon juice, even drinking coptis water. Each one was more outrageous than the last. Someone asked King of Hell Liang which punishment in the notebook was the worst. He would take a sip of coptis water, shoot them a glare, and say, “My wife is gentle and virtuous. She knows I’m always overheated, so she specially prepared this coptis water for me. It tastes bitter, but it sweetens my heart!” Blurb for “In the Seventies, Fate Has a Way of Bringing People Together”: When Qin Manlin went into the mountains to forage, she ran into a wild boar and was rescued by a tall, handsome soldier with long legs. This soldier was exactly her type. Remembering how her mother was at home scheming to sell her off for the highest price, she rolled her eyes and said, “They say a life-saving kindness should be repaid with your hand in marriage. What do you think, comrade?” Gu Qingyu glanced at the skinny, malnourished Qin Manlin, who looked like a bean sprout, and curled his thin lips. “Serving the people is my duty. There’s no need to repay me.” Qin Manlin’s first attempt to escape her birth family through marriage failed! After a few twists and turns, Qin Manlin rallied and made use of every source of help around her. At last, she escaped her birth family, entered a military hospital, and became a nurse. Gu Qingyu was handsome and exceptionally capable. The women people tried to set him up with could have filled an entire company, but the guy just didn’t get it. He had no idea how many girls he’d turned down. This time, his father gave him an ultimatum: settle down. Unwillingly, he went on a blind date. The woman looked familiar, but he couldn’t connect the elegant beauty sitting before him with the bean sprout he’d met back then. When Qin Manlin realized her blind date was the man who had rejected her, she stood up before Gu Qingyu could say a word. “We’re not right for each other.” Then she turned and walked away, brisk and decisive. It was the first time Gu Qingyu had ever been rejected, and from then on, Qin Manlin lingered in his heart. Once, Gu Qingyu was badly wounded and on the brink of death. While all the doctors were at a loss, Qin Manlin, now a doctor herself, stepped forward and saved him with her extraordinary medical skills. As he recovered, Gu Qingyu fell for her. “Dr. Qin, a life-saving kindness should be repaid with your hand in marriage. I want to date you.” Qin Manlin rejected him coldly. “Saving lives is a doctor’s duty. There’s no need to repay me.” Gu Qingyu’s first confession to a girl failed! After overcoming obstacle after obstacle and going to immense lengths to win Qin Manlin over, Gu Qingyu finally brought her to meet his parents. His father looked at his wife and wept as he cried, “My girl, I’m your father, your biological father!” Gu Qingyu asked his father, “Should I call you Dad from now on, or Father-in-law?” Old Gu took his daughter’s hand and glared at the son he had raised for more than twenty years. “What do you think?” Gu Qingyu understood. From that day forward, he was no longer a son of the Gu family. He was a live-in son-in-law. Theme: Live life wholeheartedly