In her previous life, Guo Yujiao married a cold and heartless man. Their marriage was bleak and loveless, and after years of trying, she still had no child. She endured humiliation in silence for half her life, suffering one hardship after another, until nothing remained but regret and a life in ruins.
Overnight, she transmigrated back to the 1960s and became Guo Yujiao, a farm wife whose husband, Zhao Weiguo, was an honest, hardworking country man.
But this marriage in her new life was no perfect fairy tale, either.
Her husband was kindhearted and sincere toward her, but filial to a fault. Faced with his biased parents and troublesome relatives, he was constantly torn and could never bring himself to stand up for her.
The six children were good at heart, but each had their own flaws. They were immature and rebellious, and had been left without proper discipline, while household chores kept piling up.
The original Guo Yujiao was timid and awkward by nature. She knew only how to toil in silence and wasn’t good with words. Honest and easy to push around, she had never been favored by her husband’s family.
Her mother-in-law was easily swayed and believed whatever she heard, favoring the eldest son’s family at every turn. She let her eldest daughter-in-law spread rumors and make things difficult for Guo Yujiao as she pleased. From the moment she arrived, prejudice and mistreatment came at her from all sides.
Having returned with half a lifetime of pain from her previous life, Guo Yujiao refused to repeat the same mistakes.
She shed her weakness and timidity and stopped meekly enduring every slight.
From then on, she set her husband straight, taught the children, found her confidence, and set firm boundaries.
Little by little, she corrected the family’s bad habits and turned their miserable circumstances around. She stood up to injustice, handled conflicts with her in-laws calmly, fought back against her sister-in-law’s constant provocations, and put troublesome relatives in their place.
In the poor, hard-working rural life of the 1960s, she used her own resilience and intelligence to turn her life around, shape her husband into a dependable family man, and raise sensible, devoted children.
Amid the daily bustle of family life, she worked with her own hands to earn a peaceful and fulfilling life, becoming the very picture of happiness she had dreamed of in her previous life.
