A Difficult Ex-Wife from the 1980s? The Research Tycoon Divorced the Wrong Woman

Lin Xi, a fashion director, wakes up in the body of a spoiled ex-wife from a period novel, a woman who despises poverty and is about to be kicked out.

Her husband is a penniless scholar buried in scientific research, with an uncertain future; her in-laws are dirt-poor country folk; and her own family treats her like a commodity, urging her to divorce and marry the factory director’s foolish son.

Meanwhile, the reborn heroine from the novel, a scheming white lotus, is waiting with chicken soup for Lin Xi to divorce, so she can swoop in and enjoy the glory of a future national treasure of a scientist.

Lin Xi looks at her gorgeous, badass self in the mirror and tears up the divorce papers. “I’m not getting divorced!”

She kicks her awful family to the curb, uses her ahead-of-the-times taste to design clothes and open a factory, and sets off a fashion revolution in the 1980s, making a fortune.

Two years later, the celebrated research scientist Lu Chengan comes home to finalize the divorce, only to see the “ex-wife” who was supposed to be down on her luck dressed in a stylish Western outfit, surrounded by millionaire business owners like a star.

Meanwhile, the white lotus is twisting her handkerchief in envy, unable to even touch the hem of his wife’s clothes.

Lu Chengan: ??? Did I... divorce the wrong person?