Two Years Without Meeting in a Military Marriage: The Young Army Wife Brings Two Kids to Find Their Dad

Xu Yan, a twenty-five-year-old veteran of street gangs, wakes up in an unfamiliar body after a violent altercation. She has transmigrated into a novel set in 1970s China, inhabiting the body of a woman who shares her name. The original Xu Yan was a village idiot, brain-damaged after her uncle, Xu Dashan, refused to pay for medical treatment during a childhood fever. Her parents had died in an accident, and her uncle had sold their family home, keeping the money for himself. The idiotic Xu Yan had been married off to a soldier named Song Yanche, who had been stationed at the southern border for two years. She was left to raise his two adopted children, Song An and Song Xuan, while being abused and exploited by her greedy relatives.

Upon waking, Xu Yan finds herself in a compromising situation with Wang Defa, a middle-aged factory director whom her uncle and aunt planned to sell her to. They had drugged Wang Defa, intending to force him into taking responsibility after he assaulted her. Xu Yan, however, fights back with lethal efficiency, incapacitating Wang Defa with a single knee strike. Her aunt, Liu Chunhong, and cousin, Xu Yutao, arrive to find the factory director unconscious and panic, fearing murder charges. Xu Yan, realizing the gravity of her new reality, walks away from the scene, leaving the greedy relatives to deal with the consequences. She returns to the Xu family home, where she witnesses the neglect and abuse inflicted upon Song An and Song Xuan. The children are malnourished and treated like servants, while the Xu family enjoys dual-income privileges obtained through their connection to the military.

Confronting her relatives, Xu Yan reveals her sharp wit and intelligence, shocking the family who believed she was still a fool. She flips the dinner table, refusing to accept the rotten food provided to her and the children. When Xu Xiaolan, her cousin, claims ownership of a jade bracelet belonging to Xu Yan’s deceased mother, Xu Yan forcibly retrieves it. Upon touching the bracelet with her blood, she activates a spatial dimension containing a vast farm, a spiritual spring with healing properties, and a fully stocked villa. This discovery gives her the means to sustain herself and the children independently. That night, she secretly feeds Song An and Song Xuan bread from her space, earning their trust and gratitude.

The following morning, Xu Yan executes a plan to sever ties with the Xu family. She withdraws all the money from the family bank account, which Song Yanche had sent over the years, and announces her divorce in the newspaper. She then steals all the household items, including the Xu family’s savings and possessions, leaving them with nothing. The family reports the theft to the police, but with no leads, the case goes cold. Xu Yan, armed with the money and a referral letter from a sympathetic police officer, takes Song An and Song Xuan to the southern border to find Song Yanche.

During the train journey, Xu Yan uses her medical skills to save an elderly man, Guo Jianjun, from a heart attack. In return, he offers her assistance upon arrival. When they reach the military district, Guo Jianjun reveals that Song Yanche has been in a coma for a month after being severely injured in a mission. He takes Xu Yan and the children to meet Song Yanche’s grandfather, General Song Yuanhang. Xu Yan performs acupuncture to remove blood clots from Song Yanche’s brain, successfully waking him from his coma. The story concludes with Song Yanche regaining consciousness, reunited with his children and his new wife, as Xu Yan prepares to build a new life for them all.