Life in a Family Compound in the 1970s

Yu Shutong was born into a small mountain village in Huaguo in the 1950s. Although she was a girl, her family did not favor boys over girls and sent her to high school. At eighteen, she followed her family’s arrangements and married her childhood sweetheart, Xie Ming. She soon gave birth to a son. Just when she thought she would live out a quiet, ordinary life, her husband suddenly came home and told her he wanted a divorce. Yu Shutong had no idea what to do, but her mother-in-law made the decision for her son: he would find Yu Shutong a job. Then she left with Yu Shutong and her grandson Yuanbao, giving Yu Shutong half her salary every month. After following her ex-husband to the city where he worked, Yu Shutong unexpectedly met his superior, married him, and won back custody of her son. The story follows what happens in the residential compound. The heroine has a pocket dimension, but she does not sell goods on the black market.