Xiao Wan, a PhD in economics from the 21st century, wakes up in the body of a sixteen-year-old cannon-fodder girl in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s, where her entire family leeches off her. Facing a shrewish mother, a spineless father, and a parasitic older brother, she takes on her awful relatives and vows never to be anyone’s servant. With her foresight, she seizes every opportunity created by Reform and Opening Up, rising from a household with ten thousand yuan in savings to become a business queen. She plans to focus on her career and enjoy life on her own, but the aloof, supposedly chaste son of a powerful Beijing official won’t stop pursuing her. Ruthless and decisive to the outside world, he turns clingy around her and is even willing to defy his family, all to keep her safe for life.
