After a car accident, Su Wan, a modern-day woman with a PhD, transmigrated into 1983 and woke up in a military family compound in southern China. She had become Lin Zhiwei, a military wife scorned for “climbing into her husband’s bed to force him into marriage.” On their wedding night, her husband, Lu Chenzhou, left her with the words “behave yourself” before returning to his unit. He had been gone for three years. Her mother-in-law, Zhang Xiulan, cursed her daily as a “barren hen,” while her sister-in-law, Lu Hongmei, hid her ration coupons to frame her. The entire compound shunned her: they smeared her name, docked her grain rations, and tore up her high school diploma in front of everyone...
