After waking one day, twenty-six-year-old Lin Xiaoman discovers that she has returned to 1999, the year her mother, Fang Hui, turned twenty-four.
That year, her mother is still a young woman with clear eyes who believes in love. Her father, Lin Guoqiang, has yet to show his true colors, and is using honeyed words to trick her into giving up her studies and taking her tuition money to "run away" with him to Guangzhou.
Lin Xiaoman knows all too well what will happen next: her mother will be abandoned, give birth to her alone, and spend her whole life enduring the scorn of others and the crushing weight of daily hardship. The girl who loved to laugh and sing will become a housekeeper who leaves early, comes home late, and works herself bent over.
And her so-called father will die alone of liver cancer twenty-six years later, still bragging on his deathbed about how many women he had when he was young.
Lin Xiaoman decides to change everything.
But when she stands before her young mother, seeing her shyly buy a shirt for that man, reading the sweet thoughts she writes in her diary, and watching her clutch a train ticket as she waits at the station from dawn until dusk, she suddenly realizes that changing someone's fate is much harder than she imagined.
She can expose that man's lies, but how can she dim the light in her mother's eyes? She can stop this doomed romance, but can she give her mother a better life?
This is the story of a daughter who transmigrates into the past and tries to rewrite her mother's fate. It is also a heartfelt declaration about understanding, letting go, and "Even if I could live it all over again, I would still choose to be your daughter."
