Mistaken Marriage in 1975: The Rough Soldier and the Elegant Career Woman

[Period Drama + Military Marriage + Marriage First, Love Later + Farming + Food] [Realistic Slice of Life + Light Comedy + Healing Romance] Qiao Yujie was a thirty-four-year-old elite doctor with a successful career and a perfectly ordinary life. Then, during the Qingming Festival, she went to pay respects to her ancestors. After nine solemn kowtows and fifty thousand firecrackers burned to ash, she somehow managed to send herself straight back to 1975. When she opened her eyes again, she was already being packed off to a military compound to get married. Even worse, the gentle and refined “Young District Chief Xu” she had been promised was nowhere to be found. Instead, waiting for her was a tall, rugged soldier with sun-darkened skin, a fierce face, and an intimidating presence that practically screamed, Strangers, stay away. Qiao Yujie took one look at him and wanted to run. She was already afraid of marriage. Now her prospective husband looked more like a bandit than a groom. The man, however, had no intention of letting his bride escape. Without wasting a word, he submitted their marriage application, secured them a new courtyard home, and brought her back with him. Qiao Yujie thought married life would simply be about making do and getting through each day. But the rough-looking man remembered every little thing she said. She complained that the kang bed was too hard, so he piled three layers of bedding on top. She complained that the communal latrine was filthy, so he bought her a wooden chamber pot. She had no job and no grain ration, so he quietly stockpiled fifteen hundred catties of cabbage and potatoes to make sure she would never go hungry. When others questioned his decision, he had only one answer. “I’ve made up my mind. She’s the one.” Then he placed his entire life savings in her hands. “It’s all yours.” Suddenly, Qiao Yujie began to think that being sent back to 1975 might not be such a terrible thing after all. So she rolled up her sleeves and got to work. She transformed their little home, raised chickens, planted vegetables, cooked delicious meals, and used her knowledge and ingenuity to turn their humble, difficult days into a life filled with warmth. Their marriage might have begun without romance, but somewhere between three layers of bedding, a courtyard full of vegetables, and fifteen hundred catties of winter provisions, affection quietly took root. Just when Qiao Yujie thought she had finally settled into her new life, however, someone revealed a shocking truth. The marriage documents had been stolen and tampered with. She had married the wrong man. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Mistaken Marriage in 1975: The Rough Soldier and the Elegant Career Woman — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠