Shen Qiuhe has transmigrated into the doomed ex-wife everyone in Shuixian County pities. Her husband sank with a ship two years ago, leaving no body behind. Her mother-in-law wants her to remarry for the bride price, her brother-in-law wants her to give up the house, and the neighbors are waiting to watch her and her two children starve to death.
She looked at her son, so thin he was little more than skin and bones, and gave a quiet laugh.
No one knows that the ancestral jade pendant on her chest conceals an acre of black soil, a spring of spiritual water, and hands that can save lives.
She trades for food on the black market and is tougher than the old hands who hoard supplies. She makes bean paste at the sauce shop, and it sells out completely. When neighbors fall ill and can't afford treatment, one dose of her medicine brings them back around.
All of Shuixian County is waiting for her to fail at living as a widow, but not only does she refuse to remarry, she makes her life the envy of everyone on the whole Blue Stone Street.
Then one day, the man everyone thought had died at the bottom of the river stands at her door in a military uniform.
"I'm back." Shen Qiuhe holds her bowl of rice and glances at him leisurely. "Comrade, who are you?"
Later, people in Shuixian County all say that Battalion Commander Huo chased after his wife like a dog, while she wouldn't even open the door for him.
