Dressed as sixty-year-old cannon fodder, he followed his father in the army and became a group favorite

Jian Chu found herself cast as the pitiful cannon fodder in a novel set in the 1960s. Her starting situation was about as bad as it could get: a doting mother, a scheming stepfather, a vicious stepsister, and a household in complete chaos. Jian Chu only sneered. If that was the script, she wanted no part of it. The heroine's opportunities? Sorry, but now that she was here, they were hers. She kicked her stepfather where it hurt, then called her father in the army to complain. "Dad, I want to come live with you!" She assumed that tagging along to the military base would mean fading into the background. Instead, she discovered that her childhood friend Lu Siyan had become a major figure in the army—and he was still pressing her to honor a promise she'd made years ago. Jian Chu was horrified. How could he possibly remember some silly joke she'd told as a child? Later, everyone watched as Lu Siyan doted on Jian Chu as if she were the most precious thing in the world. Their jaws practically dropped from envy. Where was the poor, pitiful girl they'd all sworn to help? She was clearly the little darling everyone now worshipped.