[Period setting + woman disguised as a man + powerful female lead + lovesick male lead who overthinks everything + mutual devotion]
Medicinal plant professor Yu Songnian transmigrates to 1986 with a supernatural ability. The moment she opens her eyes, two colleagues nearly expose her true identity.
From the start, her father is arrested, her twin brother dies in action, and her younger sister, the troupe’s star performer, has a breakdown after being fired. Yu Songnian is left heartbroken.
Misfortune always seeks out the unfortunate.
She’s barely seen off her “helpful” colleagues when her fiancée shows up to break off their engagement.
You think you can just call off the engagement? You take me for a pushover you can bully however you like?
Give back the betrothal gifts, and pay compensation for emotional distress, too.
While Yu Songnian is busy saving her father and conducting research, she somehow rises from a lowly agricultural technician to become a deputy director.
Then her sworn rival offers herself to Yu Songnian for love, chasing after her every day and shouting, “Yu Songnian, I don’t even care that you’re a man, so why are you being so coy? What about the ring?”
Yu Songnian takes the ring and takes her rival’s hand. “If anyone’s proposing, it should be me. You...”
Chen Jiayou cuts in, “I do.”
