The Beautiful Military Wife Wants to Divorce, and the Officer Husband is Panic

Ruan Xiangxiang, a successful but unattractive corporate executive in 2024, dies after being poisoned by jealous colleagues and transmigrates into the body of a woman with the same name in 1983 China. The original host was a strikingly beautiful woman of Tajik descent with blue eyes, sold by her stepmother to the Gu family for a 300-yuan bride price to fund her stepsister's university education. Ruan Xiangxiang wakes up in the Gu household, where she learns that the groom, Gu Rongqing, is a deputy regiment commander rumored to be impotent due to a past mission injury. Initially planning to flee, she discovers that the rumor is false and that Gu Rongqing is a capable and handsome man. After a series of misunderstandings and conversations, she decides to marry him, and they register their marriage the next day.

Gu Rongqing returns to the Gu family home after receiving telegrams from his mother about the bride's distress. He finds Ruan Xiangxiang preparing to leave but is struck by her beauty. After learning that she believes he is impotent, he clarifies the misunderstanding, and she agrees to stay. The couple's relationship develops quickly, with Gu Rongqing showing kindness and respect. Ruan Xiangxiang navigates the complex dynamics of the Gu family, dealing with her jealous second sister-in-law, Zhang Meizhi, while bonding with her supportive mother-in-law, Lu Wenhua, and eldest sister-in-law, Li Chunlan. She also befriends a local woman, Lin Meiqi, and starts a small business doing bridal makeup and styling.

As the story progresses, Ruan Xiangxiang and Gu Rongqing grow closer, with their marriage becoming more intimate and loving. Gu Rongqing invites her to join him at his military base in Shangdu City, where he has an apartment assigned. Ruan Xiangxiang accepts, seeing it as an opportunity to start a new life away from her abusive stepfamily. The narrative concludes with the couple preparing to leave for Shangdu, with Ruan Xiangxiang having secured her place in the Gu family and begun to build her own independence through her styling business.