70s Sent-down Youth with a Space: Having Multiple Babies and Marrying a Military Officer

Song Fanghua, a billionaire seafood tycoon from the twenty-first century, finds her soul transferred into the body of a cannon-fodder true daughter in a 1970s novel. The original host had been brought back from the countryside to the Song family, only to face immediate exploitation. Her nominal parents, Song Weiguo and Zhao Guilan, along with the fake daughter Song Lili, plan to swap marriage prospects. They intend to marry the virtuous but secretly abusive Zhang Yong to Song Lili, while forcing Song Fanghua to marry the remote island soldier Lu Qingye, who is currently paralyzed and disgraced. Song Fanghua, aware of the plot, recognizes that Zhang Yong is destined to die on his wedding day from an acute illness, which would make her a widow and grant her a substantial compensation package. Conversely, Lu Qingye’s marriage represents years of hardship before his eventual rise to general. She feigns submission and allows the swap to proceed, secretly relieved to escape the toxic family dynamic.

On her wedding day, Zhang Yong indeed dies suddenly. The Zhang family, led by the vengeful Wang Cuifen, storms the Song household, accusing Song Fanghua of being a jinx. Song Fanghua remains calm and negotiates with Li Youde, the neighborhood committee director, who seeks to secure the deceased groom’s factory job for his own son. Song Fanghua agrees to transfer the job to Li Youde’s son in exchange for a five-hundred-yuan compensation and permission to volunteer for the educated youth program in the countryside. She secures the money and coupons, outmaneuvering her greedy parents who attempt to reclaim the funds through emotional manipulation. Meanwhile, Song Lili departs for the island, believing she has secured a prestigious military marriage, unaware that she is walking into a decade of servitude and suffering.

Boarding the train to Haidong, Song Fanghua encounters two fellow travelers, Xu Wanqiu and Wang Juan. She quickly identifies Wang Juan as a manipulative opportunist and Xu Wanqiu as naive. During the journey, the group is targeted by human traffickers posing as a poor family seeking medical treatment. While Wang Juan nearly falls for the ruse, Song Fanghua exposes the traffickers by noticing inconsistencies in their story, such as their ability to afford luxury instant noodles. She reveals bruises on the child, leading to the arrest of the criminals by the train police. Song Lili, also on the train, attempts to smear Song Fanghua’s reputation by calling her a husband-killer, but Song Fanghua counters by exposing Song Lili’s role in the marriage swap and her own victimhood, turning public opinion against the fake daughter.

Upon arriving in Haidong, Song Fanghua joins a group of educated youth sent to Haijiao Cun, a remote fishing village. She forms a tentative alliance with Xu Wanqiu, who proves to be a genuine friend, while maintaining distance from Wang Juan. The village lacks electricity and modern amenities, but Song Fanghua is undeterred. Leveraging her background as a seafood tycoon and her spatial ability to access modern goods, she plans to establish a profitable business. She views the harsh conditions not as a punishment, but as an opportunity to build wealth independently, far from the reach of the Song family and the original plot’s constraints.