Lin Wanyu, a top saleswoman in the 21st century, tumbles from a lavish business banquet into darkness. When she opens her eyes again, she is lying on a drafty earthen kang in a northern Chinese village in 1972. The coarse bedding, the pungent smell of mildew, and the gaunt 18-year-old face in the mirror all proclaim an absurd truth: she has been reborn as a poor country girl who shares her name.
The original owner’s home is a classic nest of parasites. Her irritable father only knows how to throw his weight around, her timid mother sighs all day, and her two younger siblings huddle in a corner. The root of it all is their deeply biased grandmother, Zhang Cuihua, and her precious cousin, Lin Yuanfeng. Grandma controls the family’s work points and grain rations, handing it all over to the eldest uncle, Lin Zhengde, and his family. To raise a bride price for Lin Yuanfeng, she even spreads rumors around the village, falsely claiming that the original owner and Ding the Lame from the neighboring village stripped naked and crawled into a haystack together, dragging the young woman’s reputation through the mud.
The family separation leaves them with only a crumbling earthen house halfway up the mountain and half a sack of coarse grain. Her father and younger brother stay behind in the old home, held there by Grandma’s favors. Only her mother and younger sister go with Lin Wanyu. Seeing her mother’s swollen eyes, Lin Wanyu, who once made her own way in the business world, secretly resolves that in this life she will help the two of them break free from the shackles of poverty.
First, she learns to find a way to make a living on the barren land. When reform and opening-up begin, Lin Wanyu seizes her chance: drawing on her memories of the future, she buys two small houses in a newly developed part of the county seat. When the stock market is just getting started, she decisively buys several promising stocks.
From the countryside to the county seat, then to the city, from scraping by to living comfortably, Lin Wanyu uses a salesperson’s sharp eye and resilience to steadily
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