Sweet Little Days in the 1960s: A Spoiled Young Lady's Everyday Life

In 2024, Shen Zhaoning was the famous eldest daughter of Shanghai's Shen family. She'd never lifted a finger to do a thing and knew nothing of life's hardships. After an accident, she transmigrated into 1962, a time of shortages, penniless and branded an illegal resident whom everyone wanted to punish.

One evening, just as she was about to faint from hunger on the street, she met Zhou Chengan from the security office at the Jiangbei County Steel Factory.

The man had a rather unsavory reputation in town: a roguish good-for-nothing who spent all day lounging around with a cigarette dangling from his lips. Yet whenever anything serious happened at the steel factory, he was always the one who sorted it out. Nobody knew the factory had once belonged to his family. His parents were underground Party members who used their cover as patriotic capitalists. Both died on the eve of liberation, leaving him two unremarkable brick rooms in a crowded town courtyard, one to live in and one for storage, along with enough savings and gold bars hidden in various places to last a lifetime.

And he fell in love with Shen Zhaoning at first sight.

From the moment he saw her, he knew she was no ordinary girl: delicate, pampered, and with an air that made people want to protect her. As for Shen Zhaoning, she felt nothing when she first saw Zhou Chengan. But when she heard that marrying him would get her a household registration and a meal, she gritted her teeth and agreed. If it meant getting registered, then fine, she'd marry him.

Only after the wedding did she discover she'd married a “rich landlord.”