[1980s military marriage + transmigrate as a stepmother + raising children + starting a sewing business + love after marriage]
When Lin Qiutang transmigrates to 1982, she is carrying off 386 yuan and 50 cents from the Zhou family, along with two train tickets. Outside, her husband, a battalion commander who has returned to his unit early, blocks her path. Behind her, two children who have gone hungry all day stand beside the locked food cupboard, while a divorce letter is hidden in her travel bag.
Caught red-handed from the start, she returns the money and tickets and unlocks the cupboard. She asks for just three months: to make it up to the children, recalculate the household finances, and decide whether this marriage is worth keeping.
Starting with a three-jiao clothing alteration, she turns old military uniforms into sleeve protectors and tool bags, gradually working her way up to orders from local work units. When a fake school tries to trick her into paying for materials, she checks its letter of introduction first. When the supply and marketing cooperative asks her to make ten items on consignment, she agrees to display only four. Faced with acquaintances driving down her prices and urgent orders pressing her for time, she puts the deposit, inspection terms, and delivery date down on paper.
She earns money to build an escape route she can take at any time. But when both her bankbook and shop sign bear her own name, she realizes that this family now has people worth staying for.
