An Eighties Military Marriage: That Couple Is Both Awful

(Military marriage, 1980s setting, research genius, one-on-one romance) Luo Shiyi had spent seventeen years running wild in the twenty-first century. After doing too many awful things, she suddenly died and transmigrated into an 1980s novel, where she landed in the body of a simple-minded girl abandoned by her mother, stripped of her identity by the female lead's cousin, and bullied by the entire village... From the start, everything was a disaster. She lived in a thatched hut and ate cornmeal buns, never knowing if there'd be food for the next meal. The more Luo Shiyi thought about it, the angrier she got. Putting up with things would give her fibroids; taking a step back would leave her coughing blood and hanging herself. So she chose to make money and support her family by going berserk, while improving the village's conditions as she cursed and complained. When Luo Shiyi uses biogas to bring electricity to the poorest village, when the villagers use the wheat thresher she cobbled together from boards, chairs, and a scrapped motorcycle engine she conned out of someone, and when she lets loose on her vicious, sharp-tongued cousin and evil mother, the villagers who benefit from her and the researchers at the science institute who are stunned by her genius ideas speak up when the police try to take the troublemaking Luo Shiyi away for questioning: “What dangerous criminal? She's a good person, a truly good person. We can all testify!” The bigwigs up top say, “No! We have to recruit this genius into the institute!” Luo Shiyi: “Thanks for asking, but I only have a high school diploma.” The army's most unruly, sharp-tongued, and shameless colonel, Tao Siyan, first meets his wife when she's “stealing a man,” and he's forced to “steal a man” with her. The second time he sees her, she's modifying all sorts of equipment... and he's forced to accept hush money. Later, his wife joins the army, and chaos follows. She teases people, leads cats around, climbs walls, and tears off rooftops. Tao Siyan sighs: “What can I do? I'll just have to spoil her.”