When she woke up, Li Xiumei, a model worker in a textile factory, found herself reborn in 1996, the year when the wave of state-owned enterprise restructuring swept across the country. The good news: She returned to a time when her husband had not become taciturn due to the pressure of life, and her daughter had not yet had low self-esteem due to poverty and was so sensitive that she did not dare to raise her head. Bad news: In three days, she will be "honorably laid off" from the Red Star Textile Factory where she has dedicated half her life as one of the first batch of optimizers. Looking at the meager severance pay in her hand and the old "Butterfly" sewing machine at home, Li Xiumei's life seemed to have reached a dead end. In her previous life, she ran into trouble with this money, and finally spent her life in endless quarrels and embarrassment. In this life, she refuses to accept her fate! While the workers were still crying in confusion over losing their "iron rice bowl", Li Xiu-mei had wiped away her tears and set up a stall in the night market. From transforming dull work clothes to imitating bell-bottom pants and bat shirts from Hong Kong-style magazines, her skillful hands developed in the workshop have become her greatest asset. The "leftover materials" from the fabric market have become sought-after hair ties and hair flowers in her hands; a mediocre "Chenliang" shirt with unique embroidery and lace can sell for a high price. Everyone around was watching the joke: "What about the model worker? It's embarrassing to set up a street stall!" "How much money can she earn with just those few clothes? Sooner or later she will come back crying." However, Li Xiu-mei's stall became more and more popular, from a night market stall to a prosperous shop on the street, from a sewing machine to running a small clothing processing factory. The people who laughed at her at first,
