Winning Over the Girl Next Door in the 1990s

A cynical, adorable, clever and capable student x a gentle, alluring, motherly older woman, set in a small county town in Northeast China

Yu Wanlin is a top student in her final year of high school in 2026.

Leng Dongxiang owns Dongxiang Dumpling House in the winter of 1996.

After an accident sends Yu Wanlin thirty years into the past, she steps into the warm light of the dumpling shop and gazes at the woman before her, who looks like she has stepped out of a magazine. Hugging the orange cat in her arms, she asks, "Big Sister, would you rather take in little Yu or this little cat?"

Later, Yu Wanlin becomes a regular at the dumpling shop.

The neighbors all say Leng Dongxiang has taken in a clever, capable student, and the two of them are doing a thriving business together.

They pickle cabbage and dry cured meat together, but only Yu Wanlin knows that these aren't the only things she wants to do with her big sister. The place she wants in her life is more than just a little sister's. By day and night, her own fantasies burn her, yet she welcomes them. A voice in her heart says: Didn't you dream of marrying your big sister in that vision on the mountain?

The tenderness of her sister, so close she could almost touch her, had been a dream. But Yu Wanlin refused to believe it couldn't come true.

A name in a letter from far away becomes a secret neither of them can bring herself to speak aloud: Jiang Xue. Is she her sister's old flame?

Yu Wanlin resolves to be better than anyone else in her sister's life. She wants just a little more of her sister's affection, and ideally, to have it all to herself.

Caught in a gentle whirlpool, she asks in a trembling voice, "Big Sister, are you this kind to everyone?"

"What I give you has always been one of a kind."

Theme: Greatness can be found in the ordinary.