Set in a small northern town in the 1980s, it tells the story of the reborn heroine Deng Meng and the "Mama's Boy" Desk Xianjie, from the entanglement of changing marriages to the lifelong relationship.
Deng Meng returned with the memory of being tricked by her step-sister in her previous life and died tragically in the temple. At the marriage exchange site, she made some counter-conditions and got her wish to marry her step-sister, Desk Xianjie - a taciturn cannery worker who paid all his salary to his paralyzed mother. He was once despised by everyone as "good-for-nothing". When she first entered Zuo's family, she had to deal with the difficulties of her paralyzed mother-in-law and the obstruction of her sister-in-law. She also had to guard against the revenge of her stepsister and the scumbag in her previous life. She also had to uncover the secret hidden under Zuo Xianjie's cold exterior: he was a veteran who rescued injured people and silently shouldered the burden of the family.
From knitting sweaters under the kerosene lamp to subsidize the family, to founding the "Sprouting Knitting Club" to mobilize neighbors; from helping Desktop Xianjie clear his grievances in the factory, to accompanying him from quality inspector to factory director, Deng Meng used resilience to break the stereotype that "rebirth will lead to instant wealth", and woven warmth into the parents' shortcomings. However, Desk Xianjie's protection was never revealed: he went to seek medical advice on a rainy night, used his military service fee to redeem her dowry silver bracelet, and when she was slandered, he said, "My wife doesn't have anyone else's turn to speak out."
When the paralyzed mother-in-law clutched her hand before she died and said, "You are better than my own daughter," and when the step-sister received the cotton-padded clothes anonymously sent by her in desperation, the couple who started calculating finally understood: the so-called perfection is just having someone accompany you to weave the bitter days into sweetness, and live the bleak years into warmth.
