In her previous life, she was an orphan raised by the Zhou family and Zhou Chengyan's fiancée. He defied the marriage arrangement, gave her the cold shoulder, and spent four years at university without coming home. She stayed at the family compound to care for his parents and studied on her own late into the night, all for the chance of hearing him praise her once. What she got in return was a miscarriage, a divorce, and a death in bed from illness.
Reborn in 1978, at the table where the marriage arrangements are being discussed, she wonders whether changing herself will only make the gears of fate turn the same way all over again.