The day Shen Wanwan wakes up as the villainess in a story set in the 1970s, she is about to follow the plot and frame the original heroine, ruining her own life.
The original Shen Wanwan was spoiled and willful, relentlessly pursued the educated youth male lead, and ruined her reputation. In the end, she had no choice but to marry a timid, honest man whom everyone bullied.
She not only dragged him down and cost him his future, leaving him ostracized, but also ended up abandoned by everyone and dying a miserable death.
Once she comes to her senses, Shen Wanwan acts fast to cut her losses.
No chasing after the male lead, no stirring up trouble. She focuses on holding tight to her own unremarkable, bargain-bin husband.
The whole compound laughs at Lu Zhixing for being honest and timid, someone anyone can push around or order about.
Only Shen Wanwan knows he’s a genius overlooked by his era, a poor soul who silently bears everything.
She patiently teaches him to stop being a doormat, and to fight for the work points, housing permits, and model-worker honors he deserves.
She shields him from awful relatives, takes on the gossipy neighbors, and protects his peaceful life.
She devotes herself to saving her humble husband, spoiling him until he becomes the best person in the family.
But gradually, she discovers...
Her seemingly gentle, timid, easy-to-manipulate husband
is brilliant at drafting plans, deep-thinking, and a master strategist.
When no one at the factory can solve a problem, he resolves it with ease;
when others scheme against him, make things difficult, and set him up, he quietly turns the tables.
It turns out that from beginning to end, she wasn’t the one saving him.
He was the one patiently biding his time, laying plans step by step, quietly waiting for her to find her way back.
The world sees him as ordinary and honest. Only she understands:
He’s spent half his life bowing his head and enduring everything, all so he can cherish her alone.
