Lin Suiyi, daughter of a cloth merchant, was only running away from an arranged marriage when, for no good reason at all, she ended up in the unfamiliar interstellar future.
Since she was there, she might as well make the best of it. First things first: find a way to survive.
Her benefactor told her she needed a skill that could support her.
Her eyes lit up as she looked at the fabrics in the lab. “I can weave cloth and make clothes!”
Her benefactor also said she needed to become familiar to the people around her, which would help when the time came to obtain an identity.
She learned to livestream on the Star Network and teach everyone how to make clothes from ancient times. “That’s enough people, right?”
Her benefactor also said she needed someone willing to vouch for her, preferably someone she was married to.
She tilted her head and thought for a long time, then looked up at him expectantly. “Couldn’t you do that?”
Si Lin, a professor at the Federal Institute of Historical Research, discovers an ancient person at an excavation site.
He is caught in a dilemma. The good news is that handing her over would open the way to great opportunities. The bad news is... he can’t bring himself to do it.
Even if she is from ancient times, she is still a person. He can’t stand by and watch her be dissected, locked up, and exploited.
He’ll take things one step at a time. For now, the most important thing is to teach this ancient person how to survive in the Federation.
She has useful skills from her own time and is clever, too. With his guidance, she can make a decent life for herself.
But then things go wrong again. He starts to resent the viewers who unabashedly call her “wife” on screen.
When he can’t take it any longer, he stops holding back.
After the livestream ends, he looks at the flood of “wife” comments, points at the screen, and complains to the little ancient woman with a wounded expression. “Didn’t you say you were going to marry me? What are all these people?”
Later, Lin Suiyi asks Si Lin,
“When you suggested recreating wedding outfits from different dynasties, were you already plotting to win me over?”
“Didn’t you give me your silent approval, my dear?”
Theme: Find the path back through time, and trace civilization to its roots.
