[Period] [The 1980s] [Reborn] [a slow-simmered romance] [feel-good power fantasy] [light ensemble cast]
Lin Shu is reborn, back on the evening her aunt forced her to marry an elderly widower in exchange for bride price.
In her previous life, she resigned herself to her fate. It brought her three years of inhuman torment, and in the end she died in the bitter winter snow.
This time, she grabs her bundle and heads straight to the most dilapidated mud-brick house in the neighboring village.
Lu Chen is mixing mud with his shirt off. When he sees her, he frantically tries to pull on his clothes, his ears red as if they might drip blood.
Lin Shu shoves her bundle into his arms. “Lu Chen, marry me. Do you dare?”
The man freezes for three seconds, then turns and runs into the house.
Lin Shu: ???
When he comes back out, he’s holding a tin box. He stuffs all the crumpled money inside, thirty-eight yuan and fifty cents, into her hands, so flustered he can barely speak:
“I-I saved it! It’s all yours! I can farm, chop wood, raise chickens, and I’ll take good care of you... D-don’t change your mind...”
Later, the whole village watches as that shabby mud-brick house becomes a grand two-story home.
A reporter comes to interview Lu Chen, the famous entrepreneur, and asks him the secret to his success.
The decisive man who rules the business world scratches his head and smiles sheepishly.
“I ain’t got any special talents. I just listen to my wife.”
