In her previous life, Lin Niannian married Liu Qiang, a gambling addict from the neighboring village. For thirty years, he beat her, cursed her, and bled her dry. She thought her greatest regret in life was marrying the wrong man. Reborn in 1975 at the age of fifteen, she has a chance to make things right. But on the very first day of her new life, she discovers a shocking secret: all the strokes of luck she’d thought were “heaven finally opening its eyes”, someone dragging Liu Qiang away whenever he was about to beat her to death, someone anonymously covering her son’s school fees, a sack of rice mysteriously appearing at the door when the family ran out of food, all point to the same person: Shen Jianshan, the cold-faced childhood friend from the village who had barely spoken ten words to her in his entire life.
He is the only son of the village butcher, Shen, a taciturn man with a cold expression whom everyone thinks is strange and difficult to get along with. Only Lin Niannian knows that this man will later join the army and become a renowned military commander. He was secretly in love with her his entire life, and never married before he died.
This time, she won’t let him slip away. She’ll make money, build a career, and slap down everyone who ever bullied her, then win over this stubborn man with a soft heart.
But Shen Jianshan is like a wall. When she takes one step forward, he takes ten steps back. She smiles and offers him candy, and he turns around and walks away without a word. She gives him cloth shoes she made with her own hands, and he says, “I don’t need them.”
But Lin Niannian notices that when she casually says, “That crooked tree at the village entrance is in the way,” the tree is cut down the next day. She says she wants fish, and on the third day a string of fresh grass carp appears at her door. When someone bullies her, the troublemaker mysteriously breaks a leg the next day...
Shen Jianshan, you say you don’t want me, but your actions tell a different story.
