In her previous life, Zheng Sinü died in the torrential rain of the summer of 1982. She was drenched while bringing in the whole family's grain harvest, suffered a hemorrhage, and died.
When she opens her eyes again, she has been reborn at the beginning of that same year. Her belly is flat, and her mother is calling to her from the courtyard: "Fourth Girl! Come eat!"
She calmly says, "My name isn't Fourth Girl. It's Zheng Yuru."
Heaven has given her back her twentieth year, along with something she refused to accept even as she died:
She won't marry into the Han family, no matter how respectable their job is. She'll wait for the man everyone believes was "killed in action": a soldier with an old injury to his left foot, who can repair radios and crouches on the ground drawing houses.
No capital? She takes in pants hems and embroiders trim, turning three yuan into her first hundred.
No connections? The price difference on piles of fabric scraps is her first mountain of gold.
Fabric ration coupons are about to be abolished, and change is in the air. She moves with the times at every step.
That year, she turns her fabric-scrap stall into a shop, the shop into a clothing business, and the name "Yuru Fabrics" into a brand.
Years later, when someone asks her the secret of her success, she says:
Adversity and hardship refine a person into something great.
