At eighteen, Shen Zhiqiu was sold off by her own parents with a marriage contract. They took thirty thousand yuan in bride price to build a house and find a wife for her younger brother.
In her previous life, she accepted her fate and married Wang Qiang, a compulsive gambler. After enduring years of misery, she died alone and sick before she turned thirty.
Then she was reborn on the very day her family tried to force her into marriage, and messages from the future suddenly appeared before her eyes.
[Run! Marrying him is a plunge into an abyss!]
[Seize the opportunities of the times and start a business from a street stall. You could become the richest person of your generation!]
Seeing how coldhearted her family really was, Shen Zhiqiu tore up the marriage contract and fled the village that very night.
With not a penny to her name, she relied on the messages' glimpses of the future to ride the waves of the 1980s.
She started with a little stall, opened shops, built factories and businesses, and worked her way up from nothing, one step at a time.
Her parasitic family kept hounding her, and her competitors pressed her at every turn, but she found a way through every crisis.
Gu Yanci, a technician who had returned to the city after being sent down to the countryside, faced the turbulent times at her side.
Needing no rescue by a wealthy family and no dependence on romance, Shen Zhiqiu carved out a world of her own as a woman in the 1980s.
