[At first: a frail, pitiable country girl × a sickly, handsome village teacher]
[Later: a scheming, tea-sipping rich heiress × a cool, calculating university professor]
Su Ruan is a cardiothoracic surgery intern. She has all the tricks of a flirtatious drama queen, but she’s never even touched a handsome man’s hand.
After working three days and nights in a row, Su Ruan heroically gives her life for medicine and unexpectedly finds herself inside a melodramatic novel.
Her father doesn’t care for her and her mother doesn’t love her?
Married off to an old man, she has three children and gets beaten at home?
All her children grow up to be ungrateful, and she eventually dies of illness in a pigsty?!
No, no, no! She must be dreaming!
*
When she opens her eyes again, instinct for survival makes her grab hold of a passerby.
She never expects him to be sickly. One tug sends him crashing down on top of her, nearly killing her.
She thinks their paths will never cross again, but the sickly man is just too handsome and rich.
Life is hard in the countryside of the 1980s: no money, no house, no meat.
Su Ruan glances at Shen Yi, who’s out of breath after taking just a couple of steps, and tearfully sets off once more on her endless journey of studying medicine.
*
Later, she gets into Huaqing University, only to discover that the once-frail village teacher has become a university professor.
And she has become the Su family’s long-lost heiress in the capital, switched at birth.
Su Ruan pouts. “So Ah Yi is Professor Shen after all. I guess I was never good enough for you.”
Shen Yi pulls her into his arms and gently coaxes her. “I’m the one who married up, Ruanruan.”
