When Wen Hongyang opens her eyes, she's stunned. One moment she's killing time at a supermarket in 2024, and the next she's a young educated youth about to be sent to the countryside in 1968.
Even worse, her so-called mother has just reported her own father, leaving Wen Hongyang as the odd one out.
Wen Hongyang slaps her thigh. “This isn't how the story's supposed to go!”
Luckily, there's a way out. The modern supermarket has come along with her, and she can even send packages across time to her modern-day grandparents.
When in Rome, make yourself at home. Wen Hongyang uses modern thinking to handle whatever comes her way, while secretly improving her life with supplies from her space. She puts troublesome people in their place, protects her father, makes friends, and builds a thriving life for herself.
But what is up with Lu Zhanfeng, the stern-faced regiment commander? He keeps “happening to be passing by” the production team where she lives, then asks her with a straight face, “Comrade Wen Hongyang, what ‘innovative idea’ have you come up with this time?”
When her birth mother shows up in the Northeast demanding money, the commander files a marriage application on the spot. “Marry me. I'll protect you.”
Wen Hongyang: “Wait, my dad's still in the cowshed!”
The commander: “Bring him here.”
Wen Hongyang: “And... I might have to bring along my stepmother?”
The commander: “...Fine.”
Wen Hongyang: “My brother's on his way, too...”
The commander rubs his temples. “Comrade Wen Hongyang, are you getting married, or bringing your whole family to enlist in the corps?”
All in all, this is a heartwarming story about a modern firecracker in a turbulent era, who uses her smarts and courage to turn a terrible hand into a royal flush, while bringing her whole family along and making sure everyone is well settled.
Life is hard, but home is warm. The road ahead is long, but love is everywhere.
