When he woke up, Jiang Rui, the top student in fashion design, was dressed as the "sick man" known to everyone in the textile factory in the 1970s. The good news: She has a pretty face that is envied by the whole factory, and she also has a guaranteed job. Bad news: The family is poor, the father is cowardly, the mother is weak, and there are two younger siblings waiting to be fed. Every day, her step-grandma and her mean aunt planned to marry her off to the silly son of the workshop director's family in exchange for a bride price to give her cousin a wife. Looking at his sallow face in the mirror and the white washed and rustic work clothes on his body, Jiang Rui hardened his fists. Marry? In exchange for a bride price? Dream! In that era when blue, gray and black were the mainstream, and a "really good" shirt could attract onlookers, Jiang Rui's professional knowledge became her greatest weapon. No money to buy new cloth? Then change it! She changed her old clothes into waist-cinching styles and immediately stunned the whole factory. Is the fabric of the supply and marketing cooperative monotonous? Then fight! She used leftover materials to stitch together fashionable shirts of contrasting colors, which attracted the little sisters in the factory to buy them. The best relatives come to your door to cause trouble? Jiang Rui held scissors in one hand and akimbo with the other: "If you keep making trouble, do you believe I will change your pants into crotchless ones?" Everyone: "..." When bell-bottom pants and Hong Kong style swept across, Jiang Rui had already set up a sewing machine and opened his own small clothing workshop. From secretly taking on private jobs to becoming one of the first "self-employed people," she relied on her skillful hands to ride the wave of the times and carve out a bright future for herself and her family. As for the cold engineer from the capital compound who always came to "trouble" her - "Gong Jiang,
