Su Ruanruan transmigrates to the 1960s and finds herself in hell mode from the start: she's been married four times, with one current husband and three ex-husbands, and her seven kids are so hungry they can't even cry.
The whole village calls her a hard-luck woman who brings death to her husbands, but she gets bound to a Big Promises System. First, she gives people half a bite of flatbread to give them hope, then she makes grand promises that she must fulfill at least thirty percent of within thirty days. Fail to deliver? The System freezes her skills and deducts her rewards.
So the people in every village for miles around wait to see how this woman who supports her ex-husbands will use nothing but her words to turn her broken household into the most prosperous family in Kaoshan Village.
With nowhere else to turn, Su Ruanruan starts making promises like crazy. She promises her seven kids, "Tomorrow, you'll get a proper meal," and that night the System rewards her with two jin of cornmeal. She promises her ex-husband, a veteran with a broken leg, "I'll get you back on your feet," and receives medicinal wine; his leg gradually heals. She promises the whole village, "We'll eat meat dumplings for New Year's," and on New Year's Eve, she really serves up enough dumplings for twelve people.
Troublesome relatives show up to loot her home? She flips up the lid on an empty pot, then turns around and gets back the work points they'd embezzled. A money-grubbing peddler copies her bamboo weaving? She simmers wild fruit to make colorful bamboo crafts, then sells out at triple the price. The county authorities come to crack down? She slaps her tax receipts and joint-venture permits on the table. "I support four ex-husbands and seven kids, and I pay more taxes than anyone. So tell me, who's the capitalist?"
On the surface, her four ex-husbands each handle their own duties: farming, bookkeeping, security, and medicine. In private, they're all competing with one another. Zhao Fengnian silently fills the water vat; Lin Huaijin slips love poems into the account books; Shen Lie declares in public, "My life belongs to her"; Zhou Wangchuan only does one thing: when Su Ruanruan is tired, he keeps the other three out.
More than four hundred promises, with a fulfillment rate of ninety-two percent. One by one, all seven kids make something of themselves. On the day the System shuts down, Su Ruanruan stands in the courtyard, facing her four
In the 1960s, if you had relationships with four men at the same time, wouldn't you be shot? Even in modern times, others will say