Reborn in 1977, Lin Wanqing’s first order of business is to take down the village bully and send the best friend who drugged her to the interrogation room.
Her second is to pick up a gray cat.
The cat can talk and identify treasures. A chipped bowl in the chicken coop turns out to be blue porcelain from the Northern and Southern Dynasties; a piece of scrap copper at the salvage yard is a Tang dynasty bronze mirror; and a chamber pot at a black-market stall is an imperial Ming-era Xuande porcelain. She buys them for fifty cents apiece, collecting them one by one. She goes from a disgraced educated youth selling soap at a street stall to a businesswoman famous throughout the province.
The military officer who has searched for her for more than ten years corners her in an alley and asks if she’ll let him make up, one thing at a time, for the regrets they carried over from their previous lives.
She says yes.
