Du Ruo is a wealthy heiress with no job. While letting loose and pursuing freedom on a hiking trip, she was struck by lightning and sent back to the 1950s, where she became Xia Xiaohua.
In the 1950s, Xia Xiaohua was born into a wealthy family and was a young lady who could eat white-flour buns every day.
Du Ruo can't stand eating buns every day. Wanting to eat meat, she decides to get married and follow her husband to his post.
After following her husband, Du Ruo not only can't get any meat, she can't even get white-flour buns.
Faced with the harshness of reality, Du Ruo resigns herself to her fate. She gnaws on black-flour buns and rolls up her sleeves to work hard. Before she knows it, she can eat meat again, has more clothes, and her life becomes more and more enjoyable.
Theme: Becoming an independent woman in the 1950s, and truly growing up.
