Pregnant with His Baby, She Finally Breaks Through the Cold Officer’s Guard

One terrible nightmare opens Su Niannian’s eyes to the truth: her childhood sweetheart is a hopeless gambler, while her stepmother has been plotting against her all along. Determined to protect the baby growing inside her—and to carve out a future for herself—Su Niannian takes a single train ticket and travels thousands of miles south to find the husband she has only met once. But the cold-faced military officer she married greets her with a divorce application. Su Niannian neither cries nor begs. Instead, she proudly lifts her pregnant belly and declares, “You want a divorce? Have you asked our baby first? This military marriage—I’m sticking with it!” From standing up to troublesome relatives to shutting down the neighborhood gossips, Su Niannian wins over the notoriously picky military compound with her exceptional cooking skills. With an incredible ability to learn, she earns her way into university and later rides the wave of the 1980s economic boom to build her own businesses. The timid woman everyone once thought they could bully gradually transforms into the most dazzling military wife on the island. And then there’s Shen Beichen—the man who once coldly insisted on divorce. He secretly tucks her in at night, quietly hands over his entire salary and ration coupons, and slowly transforms from an icy, aloof officer into a devoted husband who treats his wife and child like treasures. Years later, when someone asks Shen Beichen whether he regrets ever wanting a divorce, he pulls Su Niannian into his arms and answers: “What I regret is that I didn’t fall in love with her sooner.”