On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in 1979, a bitter wind swept across the Loess Plateau.
Lin Qiuping was reborn on the day her engagement was arranged. In her previous life, she obeyed her parents and married into the Li family. A lazy husband wore her down, a cruel mother-in-law exploited her, and she worked herself to death by the stove without even a decent coffin.
Only as she lay dying did she realize that she had been nothing more than a bargaining chip for her family’s bride-price and a beast of burden for her in-laws.
Back at eighteen, faced with parents forcing her to marry, a shrewish future mother-in-law making a scene, and a worthless man who lounged around all day,
Lin Qiuping’s gaze turned steely. She said each word clearly:
“I’m not marrying him!”
Her parents favor sons over daughters? She argues her case and refuses to be pushed around.
Her future mother-in-law throws a tantrum? Lin Qiuping calls her out in public and doesn’t back down.
The scumbag lays hands on her? She fights back fiercely and never bows her head.
In this life, she won’t be a dutiful wife or a woman who sacrifices everything for her brother.
She’ll earn her own food with her hands and live with dignity.
But then Tian Shouyi, a taciturn veteran as steadfast as a distant mountain,
steps between her and the world when she’s at her lowest:
“With me here, no one can touch you.”
Ordinary days, a life reborn.
In the bitter winds of 1979, she becomes the brightest light of all.
Are kids playing house? Good material, but poorly written.