Zhu Xinyu transmigrates into a book, becoming a 200-pound, wickedly fat woman in a crowded seaside courtyard in the 1980s.
She and her stingy, awful mother have just picked up a handsome amnesiac by the shore to be their cheap “live-in son-in-law,” and they work him like a beast of burden every day.
At this very moment, Yan Tingchao, who will one day become a powerful navy commander in the original novel, is wearing a tattered undershirt that shows off his eight-pack abs, humiliatingly scrubbing her enormous floral-print underwear under the scorching sun!
Zhu Xinyu is scared out of her wits. In the original story, Yan Tingchao was a promising young commander of a naval special operations unit, and the heroine was his unattainable first love. But after an accident left him with amnesia, he became a live-in son-in-law to the original owner's mother and daughter, suffering daily humiliation and exploitation. When his memories return and he rejoins the navy, the first thing he does is throw the original owner, who tried to cling to him and become the commander's wife, into international waters to feed the sharks!
To avoid becoming shark bait, Zhu Xinyu decides to save the situation tonight!
Her mother won't let him eat meat? Zhu Xinyu stuffs a big meat bun into his mouth and snaps, “It smells weird. Taste it for me, miss!”
Her mother makes him haul two hundred pounds of frozen fish at the pier? She grabs the carrying pole. “Who'll look after me if he works himself to death? I'll carry it!” (And work up a sweat to lose weight, too!)
Later, Zhu Xinyu slims down into the prettiest flower on the island, makes a roaring success of her small business, and gets ready to hand this man a huge sum so he can go find his first love.
But the male lead, whose memories have long since returned, pins her against the wall, his gaze dark and burning. “I've given you my body and my heart, Zhu Xinyu. Are you going to use me and then dump me?”