A Stunning Beauty’s Laid-Back Life with the Army

Novel Blurb: Shen Lizhen transmigrates into a novel set in a bygone era and becomes the only daughter of a wealthy merchant, living in a detached house. But she barely gets to enjoy her good fortune for two days before her parents are branded capitalists. They donate their money and house to save themselves, only to be framed and face imminent relocation to a farm for reform.

Shen Lizhen: "..."

To protect their daughter, her parents entrust Shen Lizhen to the son of a military district leader who had once been indebted to them. They hope marriage will shield her from the consequences of her class background.

Shen Lizhen carefully recalls the novel's plot. This officer is an important character with a bright future. She won't suffer if she marries him, and he'll be able to protect her. This marriage is a go! She can cling to this powerful ally!

When Shen Lizhen takes a week-long train ride to marry her fiance, she finds the man before her has striking brows and bright eyes, and wears his uniform impeccably. He's even more handsome than she imagined. What a bargain.

The Shen family once did the Zhao family a great kindness. Now that the Shens have been branded capitalists, Zhao's father forcefully arranges for his son Zhao Huatao, who is the same age as Shen Lizhen, to marry her and protect her.

But Zhao Huatao has heard that the capitalist heiress is spoiled, willful, and ugly, so he's reluctant to go through with the marriage. He wavers between obeying his parents and resisting an arranged marriage.

Even when his fiancee first arrives at the military district, Zhao Huatao volunteers for a mission to avoid her, leaving his sworn brother Liang Shaojun to receive her.

After Zhao Huatao returns to the unit from his mission, he hears from Liang Shaojun that his fiancee Shen Lizhen is just as the rumors described. His heart sinks. And when his sworn brother, who has faced life and death alongside him, encourages him to bravely oppose the arranged marriage and pursue free love, Zhao Huatao finally makes up his mind: he will break off the engagement!

Zhao Huatao never expected that, not long after he ended the engagement, his comrade Liang Shaojun, who had always seemed uninterested in romance, would marry at lightning speed.

Liang Shaojun has distinguished himself in battle. At just twenty-six, he earned the position of the youngest regiment commander in the military district. He's tough as nails, but still unmarried at an age when most men have settled down. The leaders and families in the military compound keep an eye on him, all hoping to bring him into their own households.

Then he meets Shen Lizhen, the fiancee who has traveled a thousand miles to join his comrade. She's breathtakingly beautiful, with a graceful figure, and Liang Shaojun's gaze shifts.

The only problem is his sworn brother. How can he get the man to call off the engagement of his own accord?

Later, when Zhao Huatao sees the stunning woman beside Liang Shaojun, his heart stirs shamefully. Then someone says Shen Lizhen's name, and Zhao Huatao suddenly realizes: Isn't she the fiancee I broke things off with?

Zhao Huatao demands angrily, "How can you call yourself my brother? You told me to bravely resist an arranged marriage, but you were plotting this all along!"

Liang Shaojun replies with complete confidence, "A good brother takes the hardship of an arranged marriage off your hands. You should thank me."

Zhao Huatao: ?

You follow Shen Lizhen around all day, and you call that hardship?

Shen Nian transmigrates, only to learn that the military officer she'd been arranged to marry, a man she'd never even met, has died on the battlefield. She is now a widow.

A beautiful widow with no one to rely on becomes the target of many people's advances.

Her mother-in-law summons her late husband's cousin, a military officer who is a heroic yet aloof big shot in the novel, hoping he'll marry Shen Nian and give her a way forward.

Shen Nian: ?

Is it really going to get this intense right after I transmigrate?

He Xiao is young, has distinguished himself in battle, and is the most promising man in the military district.

His career is thriving, but his personal life has become a major headache. Everyone in the military compound wants to claim him for their own family, and even his aunt back in the countryside has her eye on him.

His aunt wants He Xiao to marry his deceased cousin's wife and take care of her.

The upright, conservative military big shot naturally refuses. "I've always respected my cousin. I'm willing to look after his widow, and I can even find a match for her, but I will absolutely never marry my cousin's wife."

It's a matter of principle. A younger brother marrying his older brother's wife is feudal dross. How could he possibly agree?

Later, his sister-in-law's image keeps haunting He Xiao's thoughts. When he sees her on a blind date with a comrade, he wants nothing more than to slap himself.

Why was I so adamant about refusing back then?

Theme: Fight tooth and nail for love.