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

Okay so let me just say this scene on the train is absolutely MASTERFUL plotting. You have human traffickers pretending to be a poor family, you have Song Lili trying to sabotage Song Fanghua, and you have Wang Juan being her usual awful self—all happening at the same time. The author just stacked conflict on top of conflict like a house of cards waiting to fall. What I loved most was how Song Fanghua played both sides. She let Song Lili think she was winning by pretending to cry about the past, while her real focus was on exposing the traffickers. When she suddenly stopped her tears and said 'You two, stop right there'—chills. That moment of switching from acting to real action was so satisfying. She wasn't just defending herself; she was actively solving the problem while everyone else was distracted by the sister drama. And the reveal? The child crying for his real mother, the bruises, the rope marks on his wrists—she didn't just accuse them, she PROVED it. That's how you write a smart protagonist. She didn't rely on luck or someone else saving the day. She observed, she deduced, she acted. The only thing I'd say is the Song Lili confrontation felt slightly convenient—like the author needed a rival to appear right at that moment. But honestly, it worked. It gave Song Fanghua a chance to throw some shade while also handling the traffickers, and the passengers' reactions went from 'oh no she's a killer' to 'wow she's a hero' in like five minutes. That's a reputation flip I can get behind.

Let me just say this: Song Fanghua's family is absolutely disgusting and I love that the book doesn't pretend otherwise. Her parents Song Weiguo and Zhao Guilan are the worst kind of people — they sold her into this marriage for a factory job connection, and the second Zhang Yong dies, they're already calculating how to get her money. The scene where they whisper outside her door about 'treating her better' so she'll 'let her guard down' gave me actual chills. This is textbook emotional manipulation and Fanghua sees right through it. Her inner thought — 'With these two top-notch parents, could their acting skills even compare to Song Lili, the reborn woman?' — is absolutely peak. She's playing the same game as her sister, who is also reborn. Two reincarnated people in the same house and neither is telling the other. And Song Lili herself! She's the 'perfect younger sister' who cries and adds fuel to the fire, but Fanghua knows exactly what she's doing. When Lili twists Zhang Yong's story into him being a hero who rescued someone from the moat, Fanghua internally rolls her eyes because she knows the REAL story — the girl jumped in to escape Zhang Yong's harassment. This sister dynamic is so much more interesting than it first appears. Then there's Wang Cuifen, the dead groom's mother, who storms in screaming and trying to physically assault Fanghua. Fanghua dodges her slap like it's nothing. The woman has reflexes. And Li Youde? He's clearly the main antagonist in the making — manipulative, scheming, using his position to benefit his own family while pretending to be neutral.