[Transmigrate to the 1970s + take down terrible relatives + Pinduoduo golden finger + marriage first, love later + doting rough-around-the-edges husband + career comeback]
Shan Ji, a top designer from Shanghai, wakes up as a timid young wife in the countryside of Northeast China in 1971!
Her spacious apartment is gone, along with her prime location. In its place is a cramped mud house, a vicious mother-in-law, a mean-spirited sister-in-law, and a husband in name only, supposedly a ne’er-do-well who’s never home.
The original owner was tormented until she was covered in bruises. She was timid as a mouse and couldn’t even get enough leftovers to eat!
Jiang Ji is furious: “I worked myself to the bone in my last life. It wasn’t so I could come here and let people walk all over me!” Her terrible relatives think they can push her around? She’ll put them in their place! Fifty yuan in compensation for emotional distress, hand it over!
Just as she’s figuring out how to use her design talents to carve out a path in this poor era, something even more absurd happens: she finds a bizarre “Pinduoduo Marketplace: Thrifty Homemaker Edition” tucked inside a broken cabinet!
Ten free-range eggs for a penny? Brown sugar for ninety-nine cents? In an era of scarce supplies and ration coupons, this knockoff System is a golden finger sent from heaven! She can’t stop grabbing bargains, and riches are finally within reach!
But... why is her mysterious husband in name only, Pei Nanchuan, looking at her in a way that’s more and more suspicious? Weren’t they supposed to stay out of each other’s business?
