An upside-down wall clock pulled Su Wanxing, an educated youth returning to the city, back to 1975. Carrying the secrets of a mysterious tin box, a map to hidden liquor and an old photograph of an unfamiliar woman, she resolved to rewrite the past life in which she'd been manipulated.
Facing rising rents and the treachery of those around her, she seized opportunities in the cracks of the times and ventured into business, carefully making her way from trading ration coupons on the black market to putting the supply and marketing cooperative's resources to good use. But as the hidden liquor came to light, the mystery of “Mei,” the strange movements of the tin box, and the motives of the mysterious salesclerk Chen Mo all made this rebirth seem far from simple.
This time, she would carve out a way to survive, unravel the mysteries, and build a thriving business of her own in the seventies.
