The 1960s: A Spirit Spring Leads to Wealth

Lin Wanqiu, a modern-day office worker, had just paid the down payment on a home when an accident sent her to 1966, where supplies were scarce. She became an orphan in Hongqi Production Brigade, whose parents had died early and whose cruel second aunt tormented her. With a broken leg and a frail body, she had less money in her pocket than a face has color. She couldn't even get a decent meal, let alone pay the rent penalty she was dreading. Wait, what she should be worrying about now is whether she'll survive!

At the height of her desperation, she unexpectedly found a mysterious glass bead in the ashes of the stove. It concealed a portable space with a spirit spring: the spring water could heal injuries and strengthen the body, the fertile black soil could grow grain and fruit, and the little storeroom was piled high with gleaming white rice and flour!

With her golden finger in hand, Lin Wanqiu decided she would no longer suffer in silence. She used the spring water to heal, secretly grew high-yield crops to earn work points, improved her life with what she produced in the space, and saved money so she could leave the family and live on her own. She helped her kind cousin Xiaofang climb out of poverty, and came to the aid of Gu Yan, the cold-faced but warm-hearted educated youth. Quietly, in this unusual era, she carved out a path to prosperity that brought full stomachs, warm clothes, and benefits to her neighbors.

But her second aunt's covetousness, rumors in the brigade, and unknown dangers came one after another. How could she protect the secret of her space? The stern Educated Youth Gu was always helping her from the shadows. Was it coincidence, or did he have another motive? As the spirit spring's extraordinary powers gradually came to light, could Lin Wanqiu build a brilliant life of her own in the 1960s?