Xia Jiaojiao transmigrates to the 1970s, and right from the beginning, someone schemes to marry her off to the village bully. With nowhere else to turn, she has no choice but to honor her late grandfather's wishes and travel a thousand miles to seek refuge with her fiance's family at their military compound.
She doesn't know her fiance's name, much less what he looks like. All she knows is that his surname is Shen and that he's said to be an outstanding young man.
So when the handsome man before her asks whether she's from Li County, Xia Jiaojiao, with nowhere else to go, obediently nods and throws caution to the wind. "Yes. I've come to marry you!"
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Shen Xu, the youngest regiment commander stationed there, lost his mother when he was a child. Reserved by nature and indifferent to romance, he has somehow dragged himself into being a bachelor well past the usual age for marriage.
One day, his family asks him to pick up a distant relative. At the bustling train station, a girl with smiling eyes and a blush on her cheeks tells him she's come to marry him.
In his twenty-six years, Shen Xu has never known he was promised in an arranged marriage as a child.
It isn't until his stepmother comes to him with an altered marriage contract, asking him to marry the girl in his younger brother's place, that he learns she'd mistaken him for someone else.
Shen Xu has always conducted himself as a gentleman, but for the first time in his life, he eagerly plays the villain.
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Shen Yu, who abhors arranged marriages more than anything, is pressured by his elders to marry his childhood fiancee from the countryside. He's heard that she's dark, fat, gaudily dressed, and covered in pockmarks. So terrified is he that he flees to another city on a work assignment overnight, without even looking at her photograph.
He plans to stay away for a year or two, but not long after he leaves, news arrives from home that his older brother is getting married.
A haughty man who has never had any interest in romance, Shen Yu decides to return and see for himself. The thousand-year-old iron tree has finally bloomed.
He pushes open the door and sees a beautiful, fair-skinned girl in his older brother's shirt. Shen Xu walks out of the room, wraps an arm around her slender waist, and introduces her: "This is your sister-in-law, Xia Jiaojiao."
Shen Yu: "..."
Xia Jiaojiao?!
Isn't she the girl I was promised to as a child?
Theme: Be the master of your own life
