Sold During a Famine, the Little Lucky Star of the 1960s Feeds the Whole Village

[Period farming + surviving famine + ensemble cast and community-building + marriage first, love later]

After waking from a high fever, Su Jinsui discovers that her uncle and aunt have cut off her life-saving food. Worse, they are plotting to sell her to a lame old widower in exchange for bride-price money!

An orphan at the very bottom of the social ladder in Qing Shan Brigade, she tears off her awful uncle and aunt’s mask of virtue in 1959, a famine year when even the tree bark has been stripped bare. Relying on her keen “good fortune” instincts, she fights her way out of a desperate situation.

Where others can’t find a water source, she finds one in no time. Where others can’t grow crops, she turns wasteland into fields that yield a bumper harvest.

She hunts wild game, raises livestock, takes on corrupt officials, and builds workshops. Against all odds, she leads the whole gaunt, starving village through the famine and gets them eating meat from a communal pot!

The villagers all treat her like a lucky star, but the cold-faced technician who’s been sent down to the countryside and whom she casually fed starts looking at her in a very different way.

Then a jeep from the capital drives into the mountain village, leaving everyone stunned: this rugged man sent down to the countryside is actually the eldest grandson of a powerful military-industrial family in the capital!

And the half jade pendant Su Jinsui always wears turns out to reveal a shocking secret about her past as the daughter of a wealthy family from the provincial capital...

When the wrongs are finally set right, the man takes her hand tightly. “All the blessings in the world can’t compare to having you by my side.”