Cai Meimei was born in 1986 and is 39 years old. Her father raises chickens at home. Her mother had taken over her grandmother's job at a textile mill, but the mill went bankrupt two years later, and her grandfather's little shop also closed. Her husband is a maintenance worker at a factory and is eight years older than Cai Meimei. When Cai Meimei was in college, she met a scumbag who got her pregnant. She miscarried, and her mother had no choice but to find her the husband she has now. Later, they had a daughter, Tiantian, who is already eight. But her in-laws are fiercely biased toward boys and keep demanding she have a second child, even though she hasn't been able to get pregnant. After Tiantian started elementary school, Cai Meimei began making little paper boxes at a factory to help support the family.
Cai Meimei has two younger sisters, Cai Lingling and Cai Huihui. Lingling married better than Meimei, while Huihui still hasn't found a job after graduating from college. Cai Meimei's in-laws often make life difficult for her.
One day, while Cai Meimei was gluing paper boxes at the factory, she got a message from her middle school classmate Liu Yue about a 25-year reunion. Li Yifan, a boy who had once liked her, was paying for the entire event. According to Liu Yue, Li Yifan was worth hundreds of billions. Cai Meimei had no idea. Back in middle school, Li Yifan had even written her a love letter.
After having a few drinks that day, Cai Meimei started feeling dizzy and fell asleep with her head on the table. Liu Yue suddenly shook her awake, and she discovered she had transmigrated back to 1998, the year she was in seventh grade.
After giving it some thought, Cai Meimei made a plan to focus on the following:
1. Study hard and stay away from scumbags.
2. Run her grandfather's little shop well.
3. Try to get a welfare apartment and join the real estate speculation boom.
