[#Transmigrate into a book in the 1970s #Period drama #Underdog comeback #Foil the forced marriage and strike back #Protective stepbrother #Fashion design #Family and village life #Face-slapping satisfaction #Angst before sweetness #Mystery of her origins #All-consuming devotion]
Can eighty yuan really buy a woman's whole life?
Shen Jiaojiao wakes up inside a book to find that her own mother has already taken the money and plans to marry her off to a fifty-year-old butcher who beats his wife.
“If he's so good at treating people right, why don't you marry him yourself, Mom?”
“You can lock my door, but you can't lock away my ability to change my fate.”
She pretends to be sick and helpless, uses her father's old case to scare her mother, and plans to earn her way out with her sewing skills. But when Wang Laowu shows up with the bride price, a man in an old military uniform suddenly kicks open the courtyard gate. Zhang Cuihua drops her teacup in fright, Matchmaker Wang is struck speechless, and the villagers all crane their necks to see.
Everyone thinks Shen Jiaojiao has no choice but to accept her fate. Only the readers know that she has already laid the first step of her counterattack.
But who is this man who helped her take back her bride price?
