The 1980s: Reborn After My Family Was Destroyed

Zhou Nian isn’t afraid of hardship. She just never expected her life to be so bitter.

She had a medical condition that kept her from having children after marriage. Her in-laws pretended not to mind, but secretly made her life miserable in every way.

Then came social reforms and the factory closures. The iron rice bowl everyone had once envied was gone. Her husband played mahjong while she took odd jobs to support the household. The prettiest girl in the workers’ compound had become an old maid in everyone’s eyes before she even turned forty.

Zhou Nian thought things couldn’t get any worse, but then one disaster after another struck her family. First, her second older brother landed in prison. Then her eldest brother lost his job and struggled to make ends meet. Her father died of a heart attack brought on by overwork. A few years later, just as life began to improve, her mother got cancer and, unwilling to burden the family, jumped to her death.

Having failed to see her mother one last time, Zhou Nian felt there was nothing left to hope for in life, and followed her.

When she opens her eyes again, she’s back in 1980, at the very beginning of her fate.

Zhou Nian breaks off the engagement everyone envies, changes jobs, marries the local hooligan from the back street, and becomes a self-employed businesswoman everyone looks down on.

Only after changing the course of her life does she learn that it wasn’t her who couldn’t have children in her previous life. He Wenbin was the problem. With money in hand, her father doesn’t have to die, her eldest brother enjoys a good life, her second brother finds his own happiness, and her mother’s health improves...

In this life, even the sun overhead shines brighter than it did before.