A Young Wife in the 1970s: Breaking Off an Engagement and Supporting Her Family

About the story

Modern-day fashion designer Chen Yao unexpectedly travels back to 1970 and becomes an 18-year-old peasant girl who has been pushed into a river by her older female cousin. After waking up, she takes on her scoundrel of a fiancé and her cousin, decisively breaks off the engagement and demands compensation, helps her parents split from the extended household to escape their awful relatives, and marries the man who saved her life—Shu Ziye, a driver for a city transport team. After marriage, Chen Yao refuses to suffer in silence when faced with her cruel mother-in-law's harassment, her elder sister-in-law's schemes, and coworkers' rumors, fighting back forcefully at every turn. With neither a personal storage dimension nor a system to give her special advantages, she makes herself her own greatest asset. Relying on her talents in fashion design and drawing, she finds her way into a garment and bedding factory, secures urban household registration, and joins her rugged, fiercely protective husband in turning their lives around, building a thriving little life in the 1970s.