The Educated Youth Returns to the City to Become a Live-In Son-in-Law

[Single heroine, slice-of-life period drama | Romantic tension | No harem | No simpering doormat | Female characters are supporting cast only]

Gu Bei was an ordinary young man who passed the civil service exam in 2026 and should have been starting a smooth new life. Instead, after getting drunk celebrating with a friend, he woke up back in 1978, transmigrated into the body of a fellow sent-down youth with the same name.

The original Gu Bei was a hopeless simp. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to Li Lianhua, a female sent-down youth, for over a year, only to be cruelly abandoned after she got into college.

After his first love crushed all his hopes, the original Gu Bei died of heartbreak and despair, allowing modern-day Gu Bei to take over his body and live a second life.

Reborn, Gu Bei completely abandoned his former weak, simpering ways. Clear-eyed and decisive, he let go of the wrong person and vowed to seize the opportunities of the vibrant 1970s and rewrite his ordinary fate.

On the green train taking him back to the city, an accidental collision brought him face-to-face with Jiang Wanli, a cool and dazzlingly beautiful dancer with the military arts troupe, who would tentatively become the heroine.

A small misunderstanding forged a bond that would last the rest of their lives.

A sharp-tongued, clear-eyed young man who transmigrated × a proud, genuine, cool goddess of the military arts troupe

At first, they are bickering rivals, trading misunderstandings and awkward barbs. Later, they choose each other wholeheartedly, cherish one another, and find redemption together.

This is strictly a single-heroine story. All female supporting characters serve only the plot, with no romantic tension or unnecessary relationship subplots. It is devoted, sweet, one-on-one romance from beginning to end. Watch Gu Bei use his knowledge of the future to move steadily forward through the tides of the times with the woman he loves, staying by her side year after year.