[Period setting + adorable child + regretful husband chases his wife + strong heroine + both leads have no prior experience]
Su Lan has a prophetic dream. She sees herself “protecting” Gu Changfeng, the aloof educated youth sent to the countryside, by using her family’s connections to force him to marry her. But when he returns to the city, he unleashes a frenzied revenge on her.
The Gu family is rehabilitated, and Gu Changfeng becomes the youngest engineer at the machinery factory. Meanwhile, the Su family is destroyed, and the “grand gift” he gives her drives Su Lan to the brink.
When she wakes from the dream, she looks at the man sleeping beside her and slaps the divorce papers against his face. “Gu Changfeng, you’re free. We owe each other nothing!”
As he stares at her in shock, she disappears without a trace, carrying the baby in her belly.
Five years later, Su Lan has become a technical expert at the Red Star Textile Factory through her own hard work, and her life is flourishing.
A new factory director arrives to oversee production and push through reforms. He is decisive, efficient, and utterly impersonal.
At the factory-wide meeting, Su Lan looks at the cold, ascetic face onstage, the one that haunts her dreams at night, and freezes.
The man’s sharp gaze lands squarely on her. His thin lips part. “Comrade Su Lan, I hear you’re highly skilled. Then you’ll be the first to go through the last-place elimination system.”
Su Lan: ...Well, looks like this regretful husband’s chase will have to start with me being burned to ashes.
Later, everyone at the factory sees the aloof, distinguished Director Gu drenched in the pouring rain, looking like a drowned rat as he waits humbly outside Su Lan’s dormitory. His voice hoarse, he pleads, “Lanlan, come home with me. I’ll give you my life.”
