Reborn as the Shadow of the Republic of China, She Became a Foot-Bound Child Bride

The 33-year-old award-winning actress Bai Meiluo died unexpectedly at a celebration party because she mistakenly took a cephalosporin as a hangover medicine. When she opened her eyes again, she became the child bride of the Zhao family in Shanghai in the early years of the Republic of China - a 17-year-old girl with the same name. Her small feet were wrapped in feudal shackles, and she was as timid and meek as an old painting. And her "husband" Zhao Ningzhou, a patriotic businessman who had returned from studying abroad, hated this feudal marriage and regarded her as a burden deep in the house. He turned around and devoted himself to the torrent of industry and education to save the country. When they first met, he thought she was "a woman with bound feet who doesn't know anything about her country" and she laughed at him for "acting too crudely by pretending to be indifferent". From teasing the powerful at the banquet, to helping him expose the disguise of a traitor; from secretly cutting loose footcloths to learn a new path, to standing on the podium of a girls' school to impart knowledge - she used the sensitivity and resilience of an actor to tear a ray of light in the dust of troubled times. He watched her run through the beacon fire on her little feet, and watched her move between the house and her country with ease, and then he understood what kind of hot soul was contained in this fragile skin. When the hem of the cheongsam swept away the smoke, when the account books and intelligence overlapped under the lamp, this pair of people, who had gone from tit-for-tat to life-and-death dependence, finally turned their personal Ukiyo-e into a long scroll of the same family and country in the storm of the Republic of China.