“In her previous life, Su Tang sat on the earthen bed in Linjia Village, clutching her crumpled educated-youth certificate and weeping. Her mother was gravely ill with no medicine, her younger brother was forced to drop out of school, and she couldn't even scrape together half a ration coupon.
In this life, her alarm blares on a summer night in 1975. She stares at her twenty-year-old reflection in the mirror, digging her nails into her palm. Starting over, she'll stock up on ration coupons and medicinal herbs, and turn the wasteland east of the village into a gold mine!
When she knocks on the brigade leader's door with news that “land will be divided among households in 1978” and “ration coupons will be obsolete in three years,” retired soldier Lin Shen stands behind her with a hoe over his shoulder and says, “Point me in the right direction, and I'll do the work.”
This time, tragedy will never repeat itself. She'll lead the whole village out of its poor mountain hollow and onto a bright road to prosperity.”
