Lu Yan, a mechanical engineering graduate student who has just finished her thesis, crashes headfirst into a story set in a frustrating era.
From the start, it's hell mode:
A lecherous neighbor blocks her in the woodshed and tries to assault her, while a vicious old woman comes demanding two hundred yuan!
Her father crouches in a corner pretending to be dead, while her mother and three strapping brothers, all over six feet tall, try to force her to marry the man and jump into the fire pit!
Lu Yan laughs in fury. Put up with it and get breast hyperplasia; back down and end up with ovarian cysts. Whoever wants to be a doormat can do it themselves!
She grabs the jujube-wood bar propping up the door and uses Archimedes' lever principle to flip her eldest brother!
She switches on "human Gatling gun" mode, cursing them from genetics to current criminal law until the wicked old woman foams at the mouth and suffers a stroke and paralysis!
Her father and brothers shut the door, thinking they can enforce family discipline?
She rigs two sets of movable pulleys and dumps a bucket of overnight pig slop over their heads. Three blows with a stick give them Stockholm syndrome, and she trains the whole family, who are bullies at home, into rabid defenders of their own!
Her tyrannical uncle drives up in a tractor to knock down the courtyard wall?
Lu Yan identifies the problem by its sound: a seized cylinder, a locked crankshaft. Bring me five hundred yuan, and I won't fix it for a penny less!
She also takes a fancy to her savior, Captain Lu, with his broad shoulders, narrow waist, and eight-pack abs.
In everyone else's eyes, he's a living King of Hell. To her, he's walking testosterone.
Lu Yan tosses aside her stick and wipes away imaginary tears. "Big Brother Lu, I'm scared. How about I repay you by marrying you?"
The bullies behind her, beaten black and blue, cry out: "Wait, who should be scared here?!"
