[Transmigrate into a book + struggle in the 1970s + farming + building a business from scratch + devoted to one another + love after marriage + mutual healing + making money + satisfying read]
985 top student Xu Manning stays up late reading the latest chapters of a period novel, then wakes up to find she has transmigrated into the book as its “spoiled, difficult female supporting character”! In the 1970s, the original owner spends her days clinging to a scumbag, while treating her handsome husband, Lin Yanqiu, who quietly protects her, with cold disdain.
It is late summer. The scent of osmanthus drifts through the lanes paved with bluestone. Xu Manning looks at her delicate face and braided hair in the mirror, then meets the eyes of the man outside as he offers her a bowl of sweet porridge. His gaze is even more tender than the book described.
She decisively takes her husband’s rough but warm hand. “Yanqiu, let’s lease an orchard from the commune tomorrow!”
When a top student’s intellect meets the dawn of the 1970s, book knowledge and agricultural techniques become the keys to prosperity. Xu Manning crouches by the fields, sketching plans, while Lin Yanqiu carries a bamboo basket and keeps her safe. From selling canned loquats to setting up a township enterprise, their kitchen gradually fills with gold-lettered certificates, beside the curling smoke from the stove.
The old folks at the entrance to the lane gossip: “Manning used to be so stuck-up, but now she and Yanqiu look like a pair of New Year’s painting dolls.”
