After overworked office drone Su Ruanruan dies from working overtime, she wakes up as a cannon-fodder supporting character in a 1970s novel, a girl who starves to death after pursuing the male lead. She also acquires a portable space stocked with modern supplies. Determined to stay away from the original leads and save her own life, she never expects her change in personality to catch the male lead, Lu Jinting's, attention. The aloof former soldier and educated youth turns into a scheming, flirtatious husband, carefully drawing her in step by step. From heading to the countryside to avoid suspicion to somehow ending up married, the couple team up to slap down the fake sweethearts, prepare for the college entrance exams, and buy a home in the city. They build a business and make a fortune amid the wave of reform and opening-up, ultimately rising from rural educated youths to winners in life. Their warm, happy ending proves that even a life that veers off course can still shine.
I saved my life. This is so frustrating. It just makes me feel more troubled.