[Transmigrate into a book, 1980s setting + no golden finger + second marriage to a powerful man + love grows over time + everyday family life + face-slapping and fierce feuds]
He Yue transmigrates into an 1980s novel as the short-lived ex-wife of the father of the story’s villainess! Her scumbag husband’s family falsely accuses her of adultery, hoping to force her to leave with nothing.
No golden finger? She can still turn the tables! She throws the scumbag’s evidence of cheating right back at him, drains his assets, and divorces him in style.
Everyone waits for her to become a laughingstock, but she transforms into the backbone of a garment factory.
The factory director curries favor with her, officials receive her, and even the decorated military officer Zhou Yunjing retires from the army to go into business for her, turning into her devoted loyalist.
Watching Zhou Yunjing do her laundry, He Yue secretly vows: after he dies, she’ll burn plenty of paper money at his grave.
According to the plot, this powerful man will soon die in a plane crash, and the male lead in the book is supposed to inherit everything.
Already married to Zhou Yunjing, He Yue declares that the inheritance belongs to her now.
But Zhou Yunjing is wondering how to tell her that, this time, he isn’t going to die after all.