I Became a Pretty Widow in the 1980S, and the Rugged Man Next Door Came to My Rescue

[1980s + transmigrate + everyday family life + marriage first, love later + comeback and face-slapping] The night Xu Zhaozhao wakes up, her husband’s family is just about to marry her off to an old widower in town. The original owner was widowed young, with no money and no one to rely on. Her in-laws took advantage of her weakness, intending to seize her dowry and her little house, and even make all the decisions about the rest of her life. Xu Zhaozhao refuses to accept this fate. She slips out of the Chen family’s house at night and hides in the neighboring courtyard, where she runs into Zhou Ye, a veteran who has just returned to his hometown. The villagers say she’s had a hard life, and they also say she’s shameless. Her in-laws block the door and cause a scene, the neighbors gossip behind her back, and even the old case surrounding her late husband’s accident at the mine has been hushed up tight. But Xu Zhaozhao refuses to bow her head. She’ll get her dowry back and protect her little house. She’ll also settle every debt the Chen family owes the original owner, one by one. As for Zhou Ye, at first he says he’s just helping her out. But later, he’s the first to step forward whenever anyone dares to bully her. Everyone is waiting to laugh at Xu Zhaozhao. Yet that taciturn, rugged man only shields her more fiercely with every passing day.