Reborn in 1994: The Village Tyrant's Comeback

While struggling to conceive in middle age, Zuo Qingtian is hit with both unemployment and her husband's affair. As she beats the scoundrel senseless, everything goes black, and she wakes up back in her childhood!

Zuo Qingtian remembers her family being poor when she was little, but actually reliving her childhood leaves her feeling overwhelmed.

The house is completely bare!

They owe eight thousand in debt!

Her dad plays mahjong all day!

Her mom runs around taking care of everything and still finds time to fight with her dad!

The whole family is shunned by the villagers!

Looking around her childhood home, Zuo Qingtian realizes that poverty can be made painfully tangible:

A wooden door riddled with holes, an eight-immortal table missing a leg, a long bench that creaks whenever anyone sits on it, and a wooden bed covered with straw and a grass mat...

Zuo Qingtian clenches her fists. Now that she's been given another chance, surely she can help her parents achieve a moderately prosperous life?

But just as she finishes making her vow, her mom, thirty years younger and red-eyed as a rabbit, hits her with a devastating question: "Qingqing, are you going with your dad or your mom?"

Four-year-old Zuo Qingtian trembles before this deadly choice and cries out to the heavens: "Somebody save this child!"

Once she accepts reality, Zuo Qingtian decides to work hard and seize her chance to turn herself into a swan. She'll whip her dad into shape, cherish her mom, look after her younger siblings, and do her best to fit into Zuo Family Village.

But she overdoes it and accidentally becomes the village bully everyone is afraid to provoke. No matter, she'll go from village bully to top student, and make "promising at a young age" her defining trait!

This is the everyday story of a rural girl and her family. It may read like a running diary, so personal attacks are not welcome.

Theme: Your fate is in your own hands.