After transmigrating into a book set in 1975, Xia Xiaoman becomes a second wife and stepmother who is treated with indifference.
Her husband is still hung up on his ex-wife and sends money out of the household. Her in-laws are poor and struggling, and she has two stepchildren, one mischievous and one sweet-natured.
Freeing herself from the shackles of her birth family and leaving behind her indifferent ex-husband, she sets up a food stall to make a living and studies day and night for the college entrance exams.
She leaves her old marriage behind, saves up, and gets into a top university. From the bustle of village life to the halls of learning in the capital, she writes the story of an ordinary girl’s rise to success in the 1970s.
