One-sentence summary: She thought this was a marriage forced upon her. Only after being reborn did she realize he'd been plotting it all along.
After being reborn, Shen Qingwan has just one goal: win back Lu Zheng, the man she'd driven away through her own behavior in her previous life.
She clumsily learns to cook, knits him a scarf, and follows him to his army post, where people in the family compound mock her as “a capitalist's daughter who can't take hardship.”
She grits her teeth and perseveres, until one day, while tidying a cabinet, she finds a yellowed photograph tucked beneath her pillow.
It shows her at eighteen, standing beneath a parasol tree.
On the back, in youthful handwriting, are the words:
“Lu Zheng, autumn 1973: I want to marry her.”
It turns out that even when she looked down on him, he'd already held her in his heart.
Shen Qingwan bursts into tears and rushes onto the training field, throwing her arms around the man who's just returned.
Lu Zheng is at a loss. “What's wrong?”
She looks up at him, laughing and crying at once. “Lu Zheng, why didn't you tell me sooner...?”
