The Scapegoat Ex-Wife Comes to the Island, and the Abstinent Commander Spoils Her Rotten

When agricultural sciences PhD Lin Yushu opens her eyes, she's become the childhood betrothed of the male lead, a girl from his rural hometown who starves to death early in a novel set in the 1960s. Faced with a bare home and a body so thin from hunger that she can't even compete with others for tree bark, Lin Yushu decisively heads north to find her fiancé. Her fiancé has broad shoulders, a narrow waist, and long legs. He's a hot catch on the marriage market, and everyone warns her not to get her hopes up: arranged marriages never bring happiness. What a joke. How can any man compare to the taste of meat? She gathers fish by the shore, clears land for farming, raises chicks, treats swine fever, develops vaccines, farms oysters, and builds high-standard farmland... Lin Yushu: “I have a dream: that everyone will have enough to eat and meat at every meal.” Huo Shixun: “My wife's dream is my dream. Honey, I've washed my abs. Do you want to feel them now or later?” The word around the family compound is that the missing fiancée from Regiment Commander Huo's rural hometown has turned up. She's a gaunt, dark-skinned beanpole, an illiterate country bumpkin, and a terrible match for him. Everyone is waiting to see her make a fool of herself. But who would have thought that this quiet little wife would simply pick up a hoe and get to work, becoming a farm technician in no time? Even the farm manager has to follow her around, serving tea and water, and foreign experts come all the way to the island to learn from her. Gradually, the once-gaunt beanpole turns into a stunning beauty with fair skin, and she makes Regiment Commander Huo's heart flutter. Every night, he coldly washes his underwear by the window. “My wife won't let me into bed again today. I must not have done well enough last night. I'll have to practice more tonight.”