In 2024, top international lawyer Lin Wanqiu suddenly collapsed in a conference room.
When she opened her eyes again, she had become a rural woman with the same name in 1988: 24 years old, with only an elementary school education, an abusive husband, a mean mother-in-law, and three-year-old twins, a boy and a girl, crying for food.
On the first night after being reborn, she was beaten in the woodshed, and her daughter was burning with a fever, close to death.
She thought this was simply a cruel punishment from fate for her past indifference. All she wanted was to do everything she could to protect her children and help them climb out of the mire.
Then, in a hidden compartment by the stove, she found half of a cold Laofengxiang gold lock.
Then, after touching the lock, her mute daughter drew an astonishing pattern on the ground with a fire poker: a top-secret gold transport route map from 1980.
Then, words written in blood appeared on the back of a yellowed money order: “No. 13 Yong'an Lane, western Shanghai. Your surname was Shen.”
Only then did she realize that the original owner's life had been carefully arranged as a switch from the moment she was born.
Her husband was the man who carried out the gold heist. Her kind-faced mother-in-law was the keeper of its secret. The shocking gold case, buried for thirty years and responsible for countless deaths, had left a mark in her blood that could never be erased.
From then on, Lin Wanqiu's life split in two:
On one side, she kept pace with every beat of the times, going from a scallion pancake stall in the county town to becoming the queen of boxed lunches in Shenzhen, then a foreign trade tycoon who dominated the Canton Fair. In a jungle ruled by men, she used the wisdom of her past life and the grit of this one to make the rules herself.
On the other side, guided by fragments revealed through her children's strange abilities (her daughter could “see” the memories of objects, while her son could use mathematics to deduce the truth), she returned to the people she once loved
