The Comeback of Xie Huijie, the Educated Youth

At nineteen, Xie Huijie is forced to go to the countryside for reeducation. Before leaving, she takes back the precious mutton-fat jade her mother left behind from her stepfather's Shen family, and demands 2,000 yuan in cash and 200 jin of national grain coupons as her “dowry.” Shen Qingqing, the Shen family's daughter, is so jealous she grits her teeth. She secretly pulls strings to get Xie assigned to the hardest job of all: the pig-raising team.

As soon as she arrives in Liu Family Village, Xie Huijie clashes with Liu Angong, the stern and hard-nosed production team leader. She refuses to sleep in the crowded communal dormitory for educated youths and insists on building her own house; she won't eat coarse-grain buns and insists on going into town to buy white flour; she's quick and efficient at work, yet is constantly criticized for her “bourgeois ways.” The two are at each other's throats, and neither will back down.

It isn't until a flash flood leaves Liu Angong injured while saving Xie Huijie that she discovers the secret behind the seemingly old-fashioned man's facade. Meanwhile, as the truth about the mutton-fat jade gradually comes to light, the Shen family's schemes and the educated youth office's underhanded tricks keep coming one after another...