【Military Romance in the 1970s + Transmigrate into a Book + Cooking + Raising Kids + Cozy Everyday Life】
After transmigrating into a period novel as the spoiled ex-wife who looked down on the poor, Lin Wan takes in the bare-walled marital home and the child so hungry he’s chewing his fingernails, then silently rolls up her sleeves.
While others mock her for never having lifted a finger, she ties on an apron and lights a wood stove in the kitchen of the wind-whipped northern countryside.
She turns rotten vegetable leaves into emerald-green soup and fries potatoes into golden crisps, managing to fatten up the whole family in an era when food and cooking oil are scarce.
At first, the other military wives sneer, “Those city-educated youths are so spoiled!”
Then they’re all crowding around her windows every day: “Wanwan, what are you making today? Teach me!”
She raises her daughter plump and rosy-cheeked, and the little girl tells everyone, “My mom is a cooking genius.”
Her rugged regiment commander husband turns into a doting wife-lover. If anyone dares say a word against his wife, he immediately turns on them and takes her side: “My wife knows how to run a household. Who are you to criticize her?”
Later...
When news comes that the college entrance exams are being reinstated, she kneads dough while studying, and opens a little private restaurant on the side.
From the military compound to the provincial capital, everyone knows that the wife of Regiment Commander Lu can turn the plainest ingredients into irresistible delicacies.
And the officer who once coldly handed her divorce papers now comes creeping to the kitchen late at night with a blanket in his arms:
“Wifey, I’m hungry. Could you fry another plate of potatoes?”
“...And maybe we can talk about having a second child?”
Happy Chinese New Year, family! Let's move forward together in 2026!
I wish you all unstoppable good luck in the Year of the Horse, may your wealth roll in like a tide, and bring you wealth and good fortune. Happy Spring Festival!
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Happy Chinese New Year, family! Let's move forward together in 2026!
I wish you all unstoppable good luck in the Year of the Horse, may your wealth roll in like a tide, and bring you wealth and good fortune. Happy Spring Festival!
It's Chapter 50, you guys can vote with your little fortune-making hands, I love you!
It's over! Thanks for all the support and see you in the next story.
Have you guys started going to work? Cry, I don't want to go to work