[Feel-good period drama + married couple transmigrate together + raising a child and getting rich + everyday family life + a touch of ensemble cast]
Shanghai drifters Lin Xiao and Lu Jin fall asleep listening to an audiobook, only to wake up as sent-down youths returning to the city in the 1980s.
One has become the female lead's doomed birth mother.
The other has become the female lead's deadbeat father, who abandoned his wife and child.
And Lu Linsui, the original novel's female lead, is currently a three-and-a-half-year-old little girl named Hehe. According to the plot, Hehe will one day be forcibly possessed by a domineering tycoon and suffer both physical and emotional abuse.
[Ding! System 017 is online. Host, would you like to accept a story mission?]
Lin Xiao and Lu Jin exchange a glance: Since we're here...
Complete story mission 1: Reward, a pair of spatial rings.
Complete story mission 2: Reward, a Western-style apartment in Shanghai.
Complete story mission 3: Reward, a refrigerator, a color TV, and a washing machine.
They also get one sign-in opportunity every day.
Their very first sign-in gets them A Guide to Household Registration for Returning Sent-Down Youth, complete with policy explanations. Attending a wedding gets them the bride's exact dowry set. A trip to a department store gets them ten sets of pure cotton bedding. Registering Hehe's household gets them information about job openings.
As for that damn domineering tycoon who bullies Hehe?
Cut off his path to success. Let him spend the rest of his life in that poor mountain village. He's not even worthy of seeing Hehe!
The stable jobs, inner-ring apartment, Shanghai household registration, bank balance, and clever, beautiful daughter that Lin Xiao and Lu Jin had dreamed of all their lives are now theirs, with the double boost of the era's opportunities and the System Buff. Get! Get! Get!
The parents are short-sighted, scheming, and top-notch. Overall it's pretty good and I will continue to follow it.
It's good to watch. The story about the parents' relationship is quite interesting. The heroine and her husband are both fine.