In her previous life, Shen Yulan's uncle arranged for her to marry a widower in a neighboring village in exchange for a bride price. She was mistreated for ten years. After escaping and starting a stall that finally began to take off, her cousin seized her shop, framed her with false testimony, and sent her to prison. She served two years and died of illness in a hospital in 2003.
When she opens her eyes again, she is back in 1979, on the day her engagement is arranged. The matchmaker arrives, an ox cart rolls into the courtyard, and her family gathers around the table, waiting to marry her off for the bride price.
This time, she neither cries nor makes a scene. In front of everyone, she settles the account of this marriage, item by item.
With memories of the next twenty years and a storage space only she can enter, she starts by collecting eggs and selling goods at the market. She breaks off the disastrous engagement, fights to reclaim her father's tiled-roof house, then sets up stalls, opens shops, and builds factories, climbing one step at a time until her business goes international. One by one, she drives into the dirt everyone who trampled her in her past life.
She wants more than money. She wants her younger siblings to stand tall, her mother, who has been meek all her life, to dare to speak up, and no one ever to bully her family again.
