People say, "A sparrow can become a phoenix by flying to the treetop." But becoming a phoenix up there is never that easy. Strip away all the layers of pretense, and a sparrow is still just a sparrow, hardly fit to be seen in public.
Everyone in the compound says Chu Lanqiu has leaped from the muddy fields of the countryside into a nest of good fortune. Her husband is a young, considerate officer, and her three children are bright and well-behaved. Even if she is their stepmother, she has a truly enviable life.
But the truth is, the real Chu Lanqiu was slowly tormented to death. The Chu Lanqiu who transmigrated here wished she could flee in the middle of the night. After a battle of wits and courage, she finally went from a carefully polished "phoenix" back to a "sparrow." Who in the compound doesn't say Chu Lanqiu is a fool?
What? The military district compound's "prettiest flower" has fallen from grace, too? He's injured his leg? He's leaving the army? The girls used to throw themselves at him one after another, and even now, with his injured leg, the daughter of a division commander is still chasing after him. What? He turned her down? He accepted Chu Lanqiu, that fallen "sparrow"? Everyone's jaws hit the floor!
Everyone in the compound says the two of them had a perfectly good life, but insisted on becoming wild pheasants and getting assigned to some remote mountain valley.
Who could have imagined that less than a year later, the two of them would make a triumphant return?
Theme: The choices you make matter more than your efforts, and choosing well matters more than changing.
It was purely a marriage fraud, so the heroine was allowed to work as a nanny at home.