The heroine isn’t a saint. She gets even on the spot and never waits until tomorrow to take down scumbags.
The romance is a slow, tender burn. The rugged male lead spoils his wife without limit, and they save each other.
Given another chance at life, she returns to the autumn of 1975.
The scumbag man is holding her hand and making empty promises: “Wantang, give me your spot. I’ll come back for you and give you a good life once I return to the city.”
Lin Wantang smiles, then makes sure the scumbag and his mistress are stuck together for good. She exposes their dirty deeds in front of everyone, showing the whole village what monsters lie beneath their human skin.
In this life, she wants no coveted spot and no scumbag, just three things:
Protect her three older brothers. Not one of them can be lost.
Lead her whole family toward a better life, starting with a bar of lard soap.
Find the rugged pariah from a condemned class who watched over her grave for the rest of his life in her previous one.
He Zheng has a bad class background, says little, and is shunned by the entire village.
But Lin Wantang knows that this 188-centimeter “jinxed man” will sit by her grave all night every year after she dies, will never marry, and will become a financial tycoon far beyond her reach.
“Comrade He Zheng, are you looking for a wife?” She walks right up to the broken kiln cave at the end of the village. “I’m pretty, and I can work hard.”
The rugged man’s ears turn bright red, and he even swings his axe crooked.
From handmade soap to a beauty empire, from Liuxi Brigade to the provincial capital and the capital city, Lin Wantang rides the wave of the times and leads a group of women who have been wronged by fate as they fight their way to a better life:
An older cousin abused by her husband, a second sister-in-law exploited by her in-laws, rural women looked down on by others, educated youths deceived by scumbags...
“Women aren’t anyone’s appendage. A woman gets to decide her own fate.”
And that quiet, rugged man always stands behind her. From a condemned class pariah to a financial tycoon, from a broken kiln cave to a publicly listed company, he holds her in the palm of his hand and spoils her for the rest of her life.
