Back to the Sixties: My Best Friend and I Team Up to Make Money and Support Our Families

Liu Shiyan, an executive at a publicly traded company, dies from overwork and opens her eyes as a little orphan in the 1960s, with barely enough to eat.

Gu Jia, a fashion designer ruined by bankruptcy, falls and wakes up as the third daughter in a family that favors boys, a punching bag who can do no right.

The two lock eyes in front of an earthen house. One mouths, “Phone?” The other gestures back, “No signal.”

Well, looks like we're stuck together in this life, too.

No pocket dimension, no magic spring, no golden finger System. Their only advantages are the modern knowledge in their heads and each other.

Liu Shiyan understands business, can read policy trends, and knows how to calculate costs and returns.

Gu Jia is a fashion designer with a knack for product packaging and a natural people person who can win anyone over.

While others chew tree bark, they use acorn flour to make pastries the supply and marketing cooperative can't get enough of.

While others fight among themselves, they form a sideline work group and turn the village women into industrial workers.

While others wait for policies to loosen, they get a head start and expand their business from the town to the county seat.

Difficult relatives kick up a fuss? They slap the account books on the table during the family split and don't give them a single extra cent.

Rival businesses frame and report them? They turn the tables, send the culprits to the village committee, and walk away completely clean.

From simply getting enough to eat to owning their own factory, these two modern souls carve out a path to success through difficult times with their intelligence and friendship.

Someone asks, “What's the greatest stroke of luck in this life?”

Liu Shiyan and Gu Jia exchange smiles.

“Being born into an era when you're here.”