The Nie and Meng families had arranged an engagement between their children when they were young.
Nie Fei enlisted in the army as a teenager and spent years carrying out special missions on the border. Later, he was sent to Germany to attend a military academy.
By the time Meng Xiaoyu was seventeen, she still had no idea what her fiancé looked like.
During the political reforms, Division Commander Meng was implicated. To protect his beautiful, fair-skinned daughter Meng Xiaoyu, he had her pack whatever belongings she could take and travel alone to his wife's family home in Matuo Village, a thousand li away, to wait for her fiancé.
On the train, Meng Xiaoyu met Zhao Yuqiong and her son. Luo Dongliang and his mother looked after her attentively throughout the journey. Seeing how handsome Luo Dongliang was and how kind he was to her, Meng Xiaoyu fell for him.
After divorcing Division Commander Meng, Jiang Hongying hurried back to her family home to look after her daughter. When she learned that Meng Xiaoyu had become a daughter-in-law of the Luo family, she was so furious she nearly fainted.
With the belongings Meng Xiaoyu had brought, Luo Dongliang, who had started with nothing, became a well-known local entrepreneur.
But as Luo Dongliang grew wealthy, he became increasingly cold toward Meng Xiaoyu. In her forties, unable to bear her husband's neglect, Meng Xiaoyu asked for a divorce.
After leaving with nothing, Meng Xiaoyu took shelter in a drafty shack and learned that Luo Dongliang had been involved with her classmate Jiang Youlan for more than a decade.
Unable to accept it, Meng Xiaoyu went to the Luo family to demand an explanation. In front of their friends and relatives, Luo Dongliang repeatedly praised Jiang Youlan for being so gentle and considerate, while everyone else merely told Meng Xiaoyu to accept it and not be foolish again.
Her life had become a complete joke. What future did she have left?
That night, a heavy storm sent rocks tumbling down the mountain and crushed the shack. Meng Xiaoyu died inside.
Meng Xiaoyu opened her eyes and discovered she had transmigrated into a book. The heroine, who shared her name, had suffered a hard life and died a tragic death.
Fortunately, she had only just boarded the train. None of the tragedies had begun yet.
Watching Luo Dongliang and his mother fuss around her, Meng Xiaoyu gave a faint sneer.
She had died once already. She wasn't going to live that way again...
Even with an arranged engagement, it was no easy task for a teenage girl to protect what her parents had left her.
When Meng Xiaoyu arrived in Matuo Village, she did not go to her mother's family home. She picked up her bag and went to the Nie family instead.
Nie's father had died young, leaving only a shrewish, unreasonable termagant in the Nie household!
Theme: Girls should learn to protect themselves
