Period setting + anti-cliche + no chasing his wife + male-lead focus
In the bitter winter of 1980, heavy snow cut off Kaoshan Village in northern Liaoning, where grain was more precious than human life. Wang Defa, a modern man in his fifties who had been divorced twice, had two sons who were not his own, and had been killed by a truck, opened his eyes to find he had transmigrated into the body of a village thug with the same name. The original owner had just forced his way into the home of Liu Fang, a widowed educated youth, when the old brigade leader knocked him unconscious with a shoulder pole. When he woke again, his body was now inhabited by Wang Defa, the village's infamous good-for-nothing. Under threats and inducements, Wang Defa married the widow Liu Fang. From then on, the three of them lived together with his widowed sister-in-law, Li Xiumei.
