Chapter 1

Su Wan is a nurse who relieves stress by reading fantasy novels. Lately, she’s been dreaming about scenes from the books she reads. And oddly enough, she’s always the heroine in those dreams.

Tonight, she dreams she sleeps with a handsome man.
His skin is tanned, his muscles firm—he even has an eight-pack.
Even though she knows it’s a dream, the experience feels embarrassingly real.
The pain at first, then what follows—it’s all straight out of the novels she reads.

It feels like a nightmare, except… one she doesn’t want to wake up from.
At 32, still a virgin, she figures:
“If I can live this fantasy once in a dream—worth it!”

In real life, she’s just a workaholic homebody. She only dares fantasize about men like that from a distance, crippled by self-esteem issues.

So this dream? It’s a gift.

Su Wan tells herself that once she wakes up, she’ll write it all down and keep it as a personal memento.

Eventually, exhausted even in the dream, she drifts off into a deeper sleep—
Only to be awakened by a deep, restrained male voice:
“Wake up!”

She licks her lips absentmindedly, still savoring the dream…
Until a light slap lands on her cheek.

“Wake up!” the voice repeats.

Su Wan opens her eyes—to see a sculpted, muscular chest in front of her.
The man is hurriedly putting his clothes back on.

“Still staring? Don’t you hear people yelling outside?” His sharp gaze cuts through her.

A sudden chill runs through her, and Su Wan realizes in terror:
This isn’t a dream.

Why is the environment so… primitive?

Flustered and embarrassed, she grabs the clothes on the floor—
Only to freeze.
These clothes… they’re so small.
How did I even fit into these?

“Hurry up. I’ll pretend I was helping with firewood.”
The man doesn’t look at her again—like a true gentleman.

Still shaken, Su Wan throws on the clothes, then lets out a cry:
“Ah! Why am I so skinny now? I… I wasn’t like this!”

This is the body she always dreamed of having!

She remembers: it was the night shift.
She was called back to the ER, worked late, got hungry, and ordered food.
While picking up her delivery,
a flowerpot fell from above and hit her.

She clearly remembers: she died.

Now she hears footsteps approaching.

Suddenly, strange memories rush into her mind.
This isn’t her body.
But the original owner had the same name—Su Wan.
And she’s only 18.

But there’s more:
She’s now in the year 1971.

For someone from 2068, this is like being sent to the middle of nowhere.

She looks around at the crumbling yellow mud house filled with firewood and feels utterly lost.

Then the man beside her kicks over the firewood pile.
“Do you know what to say?” His expression is serious, with a trace of worry.

Su Wan isn’t stupid.
“Don’t worry…” she begins to say—

But the door slams open.

“Su Wan! I never thought you were this shameless! First, you tried to seduce me in the dorm—thank God I’m a man of integrity and rejected you.
But now, you’ve actually hooked up with Captain Xiao?!”

The speaker is Lin Feng, a city-bred educated youth.

Su Wan (the original one) had a fiery personality, no education, and was the village joke.
Her home was bare, with only a sick aunt.
Her mother had run off with another man, and most of her family died during a famine.

Her mentally ill aunt was bullied by local kids—and once even ate poop in confusion.

Su Wan (the original) had a crush on Lin Feng, which made her a laughingstock.
He had long wanted revenge.

He conspired with others to get her to drink an aphrodisiac—
But ironically, she drank someone else’s drugged tea instead.

His plan had been to send her to an old widower in another town,
So how did she end up in bed with Xiao Muting instead?

Xiao Muting is no pushover.
He’s a military officer sent to help develop agriculture in the village—
A well-known, disciplined, and intimidating figure.

But Lin Feng is arrogant, thinking this scandal will destroy Su Wan’s reputation
and bring down Xiao Muting a notch.

Xiao’s cold voice cuts through:
“Lin Feng, are you blind? Can’t you see I’m helping collect firewood?”

Su Wan adds,
“Exactly. Captain Xiao was helping out. And you accuse him like this? Who’ll dare to do good in the future?”

In her mind, original Su Wan’s memories flash—
Lin Feng may look gentle with his glasses and pale skin, but he’s not worth it.

She scoffs at the original’s poor taste.
If she had to choose, she’d rather have a tough man like Xiao Muting.

Which… she sort of already did.

Her ears burn with embarrassment.

The villagers start to gossip but also lose interest—
Until Lin Feng yells:
“If he’s helping, why lock the door? Captain Xiao should’ve been at the brigade right now!”

Hearing that, the crowd turns back eagerly.

Xiao Muting stands there, his military shirt unbuttoned,
His olive tank top hugging his muscular frame.
Every muscle—from chest to abs—is on full display.

Su Wan remembers just how wild she got last night, thinking it was a dream.
She’d even shouted for him to “go harder.”

He’s at least 6’1″, while she’s just 5’3″—
And she’d been on top.

She feels her ears burning hot again.

In this era, how would people see her now?

She couldn’t yet fully trust Xiao Muting.
What if he turned on her to save himself?

She couldn’t afford to mess up. She needed to think clearly.

Just as Lin Feng looked ready to stir more trouble,
A young woman with two braided pigtails rushed in, crying:

“Su Wan… how could you scheme against Brother Xiao?”

Su Wan recognized her immediately from the original’s memories—
Liu Chunmei, the village chief’s daughter.

Apparently, Liu Chunmei had drugged the wine meant for Xiao Muting.
The original Su Wan had seen her spiking the drink.

She had thought about blackmailing Liu for some benefits—
After all, she and her mentally ill aunt survived on scraps and cunning.
They were barely hanging on.

Original Su Wan had no friends—people saw her as a jinx.
She only liked Lin Feng because she was misled by gossiping village women.
They told her marrying him meant a good future in the city.

So she stalked him daily, eventually falling for him.
She even prepared her own aphrodisiac,
Planning to sleep with him and force a marriage.

But now Su Wan (the new one) didn’t have time to investigate who set her up.
She had to survive first.

“Liu Chunmei, are you blind or just stupid? Can’t you see Captain Xiao’s sweating from carrying wood?”

But Liu Chunmei wasn’t innocent either.
She may cry pitifully,
But her heart was pure poison.