[Blurb confirmed on July 30, 2026, screenshot uploaded]
Meng Dongqing is fed up with her relatives pressuring her to get married, so every day she posts absurd things online. Her post titles include, but aren't limited to, "How to Marry a Husband and Bring Him Home," "A Husband for No Dowry," "Seeking a Charming Husband to Marry In," and "A Worthy Husband to Marry In."
After staying up too late, she transmigrates to 1980. There are four sisters in the family, and their clan demands that one of them bring a husband into the family.
None of the four sisters is willing, and one argument after another breaks out.
Meng Dongqing is delighted. A pillow arrives just as I'm getting sleepy? What a great deal! I'll do it!
After she volunteers to bring home a husband, her whole family feels they owe her, and they throw themselves into finding her a man who's perfect in every way.
When they ask what she's looking for, Meng Dongqing tosses out a piece of paper covered in a string of rhyming requirements:
Can cook and do chores, handsome, sweet-voiced, and tall
Doesn't smoke or drink, keeps a clean circle, few women in his life
Well-read, good at math, emotionally steady, and even-tempered
The clan members' faces fall. "Are you kidding? Where would you find a man like that?"
Meng's mother slaps the table. "Only a man like that is good enough for my Dongqing!"
As the atmosphere turns tense, there is a knock at the door. A deep, slightly husky male voice says, "Excuse me, are you looking for a husband to marry in?"
Meng Dongqing looks over. Wow, that face is a work of genius!
There's big news at the factory lately: the most dazzling flower in the Meng family has married in a gloomy pretty boy who came back from the military corps with no job and no family. He'll eat her alive!
Meng Dongqing, running through the snow with a hunting rifle in hand, wipes the sweat from her brow and smiles. We'll see who eats whom!
Bian Bai thinks his family background has made him selfish, cold-hearted, and callous by nature.
He married into the family of his own accord for practical reasons.
Love? Who's ever seen it? Marriage? Nothing more than an exchange of equal value.
And yet...
A year into the marriage, the new Marriage Law takes effect, and several couples around them begin filing for divorce. Meng Dongqing smiles and says, "I know you never really wanted this. We can get divorced too."
Bian Bai: "..."
He's panicking.
How can he return to the lonely darkness now that the deep sea has been lit by the sun and glitters with rippling light?
Theme: Love is like gears meshing.
