In 1975, the sky was bright and cloudless.

From the courtyard of the village party secretary’s house in Qin Family Village came wailing cries that pierced the peaceful sky.

“Nian Nian, if you want a divorce, even if I have to kneel at the army compound gates day and night, I’ll beg Xie Zhengnian to divorce you! Why would you do something so foolish as to kill yourself? How can Mom live if you die?”

“Nian Nian, it’s all Dad’s fault. Dad shouldn’t have forced you to marry someone you didn’t like.”

“Uncle, Auntie, I’m sorry. I never thought Qin Nian would go so far—hurting her own children and herself—just to be with me. It’s my fault. I shouldn’t have stayed in contact with her. I ruined her life.”

“All to be with another man, she’d even harm her own children? She’s vicious and shameless beyond words!”

“Exactly! How could such a heartless woman exist? If Qin Wan hadn’t arrived in time, Riceball and Bean Sprout would’ve drowned already!”

Listening to the chattering voices around her, Qin Nian slowly opened her eyes, disturbed from her pleasant dreams.

“Ahhh! A corpse has risen!”

Seeing Qin Nian open her eyes, the crowd recoiled in shock, faces full of terror.

Qin Nian’s clear, beautiful eyes swept over the group of men and women dressed in distinctly 70s-era clothing.

A rush of unfamiliar memories flooded her mind.

She had transmigrated—into the very novel she had stayed up all night reading, Sweet Second Marriage in the 70s!

She was now the vicious ex-wife of the male lead, military officer Xie Zhengnian, who even shared her exact name!

In the book, the original Qin Nian was the Qin family’s only daughter, doted on by her parents and three elder brothers.

She was bright and beautiful, and had planned to take the college entrance exam.

But that year, the state abolished exams and encouraged educated youth to relocate to remote countryside areas.

Though her family lived in a rural village, it was in Beijing, and she had lived a comfortable, sheltered life. Naturally, she refused to be sent to the impoverished Northwest.

Under her family’s persuasion, she instead married her childhood fiancé, Xie Zhengnian, a military officer.

But after high school, she came to despise Xie Zhengnian as a rough, unrefined man.

After marriage, she refused to live with his family or follow him to the army base, choosing to stay in her parents’ home.

In six years of marriage, she had only slept with him twice.

Yet, those two times resulted in a son and daughter, thanks to her naturally high fertility.

Xie Zhengnian, a hardworking soldier, sent his entire monthly stipend home for the sake of their children, giving her a life of comfort and luxury.

But a life of ease breeds restless thoughts.

When her old classmate Han Mingze returned from the countryside, their feelings rekindled.

Egged on by her cousin Qin Wan, Qin Nian began to despise her husband more and more.

She hatched a plan: drown her own children to force Xie Zhengnian to divorce her.

Three days ago, she put the scheme into motion.

She brought her kids to a pond, pretending they had fallen in so she could “rescue” them.

But she didn’t know Qin Wan and Han Mingze had set her up.

While she pretended to save her children, Han Mingze held her underwater, drowning her.

Qin Wan swooped in to “save” the children, earning everyone’s gratitude.

Later, Qin Wan brought the children to Xie Zhengnian, and under her gentle care, he remarried her.

Two years after Qin Wan bore Xie Zhengnian a child of her own, Qin Nian’s two children died mysteriously.

In the novel, Qin Wan built a business empire and became the richest woman in the country, pampered for life by Xie Zhengnian, who rose swiftly in rank.

Han Mingze also became a legendary business tycoon.

Now, staring at Han Mingze—the scumbag who rose to glory on the original Qin Nian’s corpse—kneeling before her, Qin Nian slapped him hard across the face.

“How dare you slander me! Destroying a military marriage is a crime. I’ll report you to the police!” she said coldly.

Han Mingze looked at her with wounded eyes.

“Nian Nian, you said you regretted marrying Xie Zhengnian, that you truly loved me, and wanted to be with me forever. How can you accuse me of slander?”

Han Mingze wore a crisp white shirt and black trousers, his delicate features and peach blossom eyes making him look every bit the poster-boy heartthrob.

In modern times, he’d easily be a top idol, the “dream man of nine hundred million girls.”

No wonder the original Qin Nian fell so hard for him that she lost her mind, abandoning even her own children.

“Smack!” Another sharp slap landed on Han Mingze’s face.

Qin Nian sneered, full of disgust:

“No mirror? You can always piss and look at your reflection. Do you even see what you are? My man is 188 cm tall—you’re 168. My man’s a regiment commander—you’re an exiled nobody. Am I blind or brain-dead to like a useless loser like you? Spread one more rumor about me and Xie Zhengnian, and I’ll have you locked up!”

Han Mingze was 25—the same age as Qin Nian.

In modern times, that was young, but in this era where most married at 18, he was already considered an “old bachelor.”

“Nian Nian… you’re really alive?”

Qin Nian’s mother, shocked by her daughter’s violent slaps, snapped out of her daze and grabbed her hand in joy.

Looking at the parents who were identical to her own from her previous life, Qin Nian’s heart twisted with pain.

Her modern parents had painstakingly raised their only daughter into a top medical student, only for her to suddenly die from overwork after binge-reading a novel.

They must have been just as heartbroken as these parents.

“Mom, I’m fine. I just fainted earlier, that’s all. Don’t worry.”

Qin Nian’s gaze shifted to Qin Wan, who was shielding a six-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl in her arms like a mother hen.

Her heart jolted.

She was stunned by how beautiful the two children she and Xie Zhengnian had were.

Even with their messy clothes and dirty faces, their stunning features shone through.

Her son, nicknamed Fantuan, looked like a handsome little prince straight out of a drama, and her daughter, Xiaobao, was an irresistibly adorable, doe-eyed little girl.

With such precious children and a strong, dashing husband, why on earth had the original Qin Nian been so self-destructive?

“Dad, Mom, I didn’t hurt Fantuan and Xiaobao. Qin Wan and Han Mingze plotted against me. Qin Wan wanted me dead so she could take the kids to Xie Zhengnian and marry him herself!”

Her words shocked everyone, and they all turned to stare at Qin Wan.