Severing Ties with Family and Sent to the Countryside! Pampered by Beijing’s Elite Officials

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Author:
不吃烤冷麵
Status:Ongoing

Summary

1970s Era Setting + Rebirth + Spiritual Spring Space + Divine Healer + Stripping Everything Clean + Sweet Protective Military Marriage + True and False Heiress

In her past life, Su Qing was nothing more than a disposable blood bank for the Su family. She took her stepsister’s place and was sent to the countryside, only to die a miserable death on the streets.

Reborn, she looked at the severance letter forcing her to leave and smiled. Sign? Of course I will! But before she goes, there is one big thing to do first—strip this place bare!

Furniture? Take it! Savings? Take it! Gold bars? Take it! Even the peanuts hidden in the mouse hole in the corner are dug out and taken away! Her rule is simple: leave not even a single hair for those wretched relatives, then head for the countryside without a care in the world.

After arriving in the countryside:
She holds a secret space with a magical spiritual spring, and possesses peerless medical skills.
Local good-for-nothings picking a fight? Kick them flying!
Stepmother and stepsister coming to leech off her? Humiliate them publicly and teach them a lesson!

She originally planned to quietly build her fortune, top the imperial examinations, and return to the capital to reclaim her rightful place in the family. But who would have thought she would cross paths with the feared “Living Yama” who commands the Northwest.

Short Scene:
Lu Zhanye, the youngest commander in the Northwest Military Region. No one dares to come within three meters of him when his bipolar disorder flares up. Until he meets Su Qing. She is his only cure, his whole life, and his obsession spanning two lifetimes.

One day, word spreads throughout the entire military region: the decisive, ruthless Commander Lu is actually learning how to knit a scarf?

Lu Zhanye corners Su Qing against the wall, the corners of his eyes red, his voice hoarse. Qingqing, don’t look at anyone else. Look at me. I will give you my entire life. Will you marry me?

Novel Items

Jade pendant

Treasure

A half-broken jade pendant that was found by Wang Cuihua when she adopted baby Lin Kexin. It was hung around Lin Kexin's neck for over a decade. Lin Tianci stole it as a gift for a girl, was rejected, and threw it at Lin Kexin's face, breaking it into two pieces. When Lin Kexin's blood touched the jagged edge, it activated a Spatial Spirit Spring mystical space.

Spiritual space

Magical Item

A personal spatial ability possessed by Su Wanwan where she can store items mentally, shower, and access Spirit Spring water. She hid the soda bottles Xie Beishen gave her inside this space.

Spirit spring water

Materials

Water from An Ruoyan's space that made her skin white and tender as a peeled egg after drinking it.

Severance of Kinship Document

Documents

Legal document stating Su Qing voluntarily severed all ties with the Su family. Written by Zhao Jinhua who included the clause that 'all personal belongings of Su Qing shall be disposed of by herself.' Su Qing used this clause as legal basis for clearing out the entire house. Contained fingerprints and official stamps.

gold bars

Item

Valuable items Chu Xuan had sold to Brother Yi. He sold ten gold bars initially and later exchanged the remaining gold once more. Most of his gold had been sold off until only a few pieces kept for collection remained, leaving him broke.

Camphor Chest

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Located under the bed in the parents' bedroom. Contained Zhao Jinhua's dowry jewelry and private savings. Transferred to Su Qing's spiritual space along with thirty-two yuan and grain, meat, and cloth tickets that were tucked under the pillow.

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LunarixArt Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ November 17,2025

The moonlight scene at the end is pure cinema. I can literally see the frame—the two of them walking side by side, the moon blazing bright above them, casting sharp lines into Lu Zhanye's profile. The author writes: "these days it seemed to shine extra hard whenever they met after dark, like a spotlight on stage." That line alone transforms the entire scene from a simple walk into something mythic, like the universe itself is framing this moment. But the worldbuilding details throughout this passage are what really ground it. The olive-green scarf visible through Su Qing's window crack. The hard wooden chair with a faded army-green cushion. The military compound with its commander's quarters. The black market where Su Qing sells goods. The red clay unique to Hongxing Commune caked on Li Jianjun's shoes. Every detail feels specific and lived-in, not generic. The visual contrast between Lu Zhanye's damp, half-dressed vulnerability inside and the stark moonlight outside mirrors the emotional arc of the scene—he's guarded and buttoned-up indoors, but under the open sky, something shifts between them. The setting isn't just backdrop; it's actively shaping the mood.

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HexDevil Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ May 23,2026

The author's use of environmental contrast here is actually insane and I don't say that lightly. Let me paint this for you: Lin Wanqing arrives and the snow is described as coarse, gritty, stinging the face like handfuls of sand. Northwest snow is nothing like the fine soft flakes of the capital. This isn't just atmosphere—it's a statement. The capital girl comes to a place that doesn't care about her polish. Her tailored black wool coat and lambskin boots are mentioned like armor she thinks will protect her, but the environment itself is already working against her. Meanwhile Su Qing is standing in that same snow in a faded grey cotton jacket, no makeup, hair simply tied back, and she looks like a white plum blossom pushing through ice. The imagery is almost cruel in how it sets up the two women: one dressed for a magazine cover, one dressed for survival, and the survival one is the one who wins every scene. And then the clinic scene—the packed room, the tea steam, the way Lin Wanqing's voice carries perfectly across the space like she's on a stage. The author keeps giving us these theatrical moments for Lin Wanqing and quiet, intimate moments for Su Qing. The window tapping three short two long—that detail alone tells us everything about their relationship. No grand gestures. Just code. Just two people who've learned to speak in whispers. The world feels lived-in because the author never forgets that this is 1976 China, where a pair of Shanghai soap bars and fifty yuan can buy you an ally, where a wool scarf is the closest thing to a love letter you'll get.

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Kenjihayamura Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ November 29,2025

The author has this incredible ability to lull you into a cozy rhythm and then YANK the rug out. Let me walk through how this sequence works because it's masterclass-level pacing. We start with Su Qing's daily routine—studying medicine, treating villagers, selling on the black market, accumulating five hundred yuan in two weeks. It's satisfying, almost peaceful. The Lu Zhanye candy scene adds warmth and romantic tension. You're settling in, right? Feeling good about Su Qing's progress. Then—bam. A madwoman appears at the village gate screaming about swapped babies. The transition is seamless. Su Qing is finishing an acupuncture session, walks toward a crowd, and suddenly the entire narrative axis shifts. The madwoman's cries of "Swapped! They've all been swapped!" echo through twenty years of silence. And that red mole—Su Qing's birthmark, something she never thought twice about—becomes the key to an eighteen-year-old mystery. What's brilliant is how the author controls the reveal. The madwoman doesn't just say "swap"—she says it for twenty years in fragmented bursts, and only in her clearest moment does she lock eyes with Su Qing and whisper about the mole. Then the chapter ends with Su Qing watching Aunt Zhou clutched in the moonlight, whispering apologies to a ghost, holding a frayed swaddling cloth. No resolution. No answers. Just the question hanging like the north wind: who swapped her, and why? The pacing here is like a slow exhale followed by a gasp. You don't see it coming because the author makes you comfortable first.

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AkosiRen2323 Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ August 21,2025

Okay so this clinic scene is genuinely one of the most vividly staged moments I've read in a while. Let me just say it: Su Qing doesn't need to raise her voice to destroy someone. She crouches, touches a wrist, closes her eyes for ten seconds—and suddenly thirty people are witnesses to Lin Wanqing's private suffering. The way the author writes it, the words literally hang in the air like a stone. That's not just dialogue, that's spatial awareness. You can feel the crowd leaning in, you can feel Lin Wanqing's face burning, you can feel the awkward pity of the onlookers parting as she flees. And then the shift to the youth quarters at night—lights out, snores rising and falling in waves, Su Qing curled under her quilt with a candle from her storage space. The image of that candle flickering down to its wick and dying, leaving her in total darkness, is cinematic in a way that made me actually pause and sit with it. She doesn't light another candle. She needs the dark. That detail alone tells you everything about her emotional state without a single internal monologue. Then the materials exchange fair—shoulder to shoulder crowds, over a hundred work units, coarse grain and farm tools and homemade pickles. Dull and rustic, the author says, before Su Qing's stall appears. I'm already imagining the visual contrast. This is a world that feels lived-in, not just described. The loess soil, the dry winter grass, the crisp air of a northern Chinese county in the 1970s—it all accumulates into something you can step into.

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Goblin1000 Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ December 9,2025

Let's talk about what's actually at stake here, because on the surface this looks like a survival-and-thriving story but underneath it's a mystery about identity that could shatter everything Su Qing thought she was. The madwoman's revelation isn't just dramatic flair—it's the inciting incident for Su Qing's entire origin story. That red mole on her collarbone, something her parents never cared about, becomes the single piece of evidence that connects an eighteen-year-old baby swap to her very existence. And Aunt Zhou? She's not actually mad. Or at least, the clarity flashes suggest she saw something so terrible—"they said they'd kill me if I told"—that her mind broke rather than betray her. Twenty years of silence. Twenty years of clutching that frayed swaddling cloth. The stakes just went from "Su Qing needs to survive in a harsh era" to "Su Qing may not be who she thinks she is, and powerful people have been lying about her entire life." The jade pendant growing warm when she touches it feels less like a magical convenience and more like it's reacting to the truth closing in. Even Su Jianguo—someone she trusts—might have fought to bury this secret. And Lu Zhanye? His family connections, the surveillance, the capital ties—all of it suddenly feels less like romantic subplot and more like pieces of a larger puzzle. The author is weaving multiple threads of conflict together and the tension is compounding with every chapter. What happens when Su Qing learns the truth? Who are her real parents? And what does that mean for her position in this world?

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2003Med Review ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ September 13,2025

The gloves are such a loaded symbol and I keep coming back to them. They're ugly—messy, crooked stitches, homely and lumpy. But they're also an act of love so specific and practical that it transcends romance. Lu Zhanye can't do anything delicate, but he can protect her from having to touch other people's skin. It's jealousy and care wrapped in cotton. Su Qing pressing them to her cheek and calling him a "jealous, stubborn fool"—she sees through the rough exterior to the tenderness underneath. Then there's Lu Zhanye's scar. The author describes it as "a pale old scar curving like a silver centipede across his skin." A centipede—many legs, creeping, ancient. It's on his face, visible to everyone, a permanent mark of whatever he's survived. And yet Su Qing only looks at his collarbone for 0.3 seconds before darting her gaze away. She notices everything about him but pretends not to. The scar is his history written on his body; the gloves are his present-tense devotion. And of course the title metaphor itself—"the mantis stalks the cicada"—carries the whole theme of hidden predators and underestimated victims. Su Zhirou thinks she's the hunter, but Su Qing is the sparrow waiting behind everything. The story keeps flipping who has the power, who sees clearly, who's actually in control.

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