On a stormy night, in the mud,
Lin Wanting watches as her husband, Gu Yuan, takes a truck head-on to protect her, his body covered in blood. Even as he dies, he clutches her hand and tells her, “Stay alive.”
Her mother-in-law calls her a bringer of bad luck, then takes all their belongings and favors her younger son. The village bully withholds her compensation money, leaving her with nowhere to turn.
She closes her eyes, full of hatred. When she opens them again, she’s back on the night before the 1982 wheat harvest.
By moonlight, Gu Yuan is crouched beside the whetstone, sharpening a sickle. The burn scar on the back of his hand, left by a fire poker, is still fresh and painfully vivid.
This time, she won’t wait for her mother-in-law to make a scene and demand they split the family. She slams the table and calls out, “We’re splitting up!”
The ledger her husband hid for half his life has returned with her, reborn along with her pocket dimension.
What Wang Cuihua owes, what Liu Dafugreedy stole, what Qian Baiwan embezzled, what Qin Sihai did to them…
She’ll collect every last debt, with interest!
She gathers morel mushrooms in the hills, opens the village’s first local-produce buying station, sets up a food-processing factory, and teams up with local businesses to take down the tyrant of the market…
The once meek, long-suffering wife and her taciturn, rugged husband go from Leaning Mountain Village all the way to the provincial capital.
Some people laugh at Gu Yuan for being useless and living off his wife.
Lin Wanting sets the plaque of the province’s leading food company in the courtyard and declares:
“My man loves me, protects me, and is good with his hands. I made him a tycoon, so what’s your problem?”
In our previous life, you risked your life to protect me. In this one, I’ll turn everything around for you.
Not one person who owes us will get away.
