80s Beautiful Naive Bride: From Sold Wife to Village Queen

Ye Zhen is a successful food blogger who owns a high-tech kitchen and live-streams culinary content to a large following. After experiencing recurring dreams of selling steamed buns in a backward rural town during the 1980s, she interprets the visions as a call for charity. She prepares for a humanitarian mission by purchasing bulk ingredients and equipment, intending to sell affordable meals to impoverished communities. However, while driving to the designated location, her vehicle skids on a rainy mountain road and crashes off a cliff. Upon regaining consciousness, she finds herself in a hospital bed in 1986, inhabiting the body of Ye Xiaozhen, a young woman with intellectual disabilities who had just been rescued from a village pond.

Ye Xiaozhen was sold by her abusive father, Ye Zhengguo, and stepmother, Sun Qing, to Xie Lin'an, a local man known as a "killer star" because three of his previous fiancées died under mysterious circumstances. The sale was arranged for a mere thousand yuan to fund the education and marriage of Ye Xiaozhen's siblings. Before the transaction, Ye Xiaozhen attempted to escape her fate but fell into the water. In the hospital, her biological parents callously negotiate with the buyer's grandfather, Lin Xinghua, over medical fees, ultimately forcing the old man to pay a fraction of the cost while they abandon the girl. Xie Lin'an, a strong and silent laborer working on a dam project, arrives to take his new wife home. He is initially wary but quickly becomes protective upon learning of the abuse she endured.

Ye Zhen discovers that her modern, fully stocked luxury kitchen has traveled with her to this era. She can mentally access the kitchen at will, retrieving high-quality food and ingredients. This secret advantage allows her to survive and thrive despite the poverty of her new surroundings. She decides to maintain her facade of being a fool to avoid suspicion and danger, but she is fully aware of her legal status. She learns that her family obtained a mental disability certificate for her, which she views as a powerful tool. The certificate provides her with government subsidies and, more importantly, offers a degree of legal immunity, as her actions can be attributed to her condition.

Upon returning to the Xie household, Ye Xiaozhen is welcomed by Lin Xinghua, who treats her with kindness and respect. Xie Lin'an, though rough around the edges, promises to protect her from further harm. He secures their marriage legally and transfers her household registration, severing her official ties to her abusive family. When Ye Zhengguo and Sun Qing discover that the marriage is finalized and that Xie Lin'an is withholding the disability certificate, they confront the Xie family. They demand the return of the certificate and the remaining nine hundred yuan of the dowry. The confrontation escalates when Ye Xiaozhen, armed with an oak branch, physically attacks her parents, driving them away from the property.

The assault leads Ye Zhengguo and Sun Qing to file a police report, accusing Ye Xiaozhen of violence and alleging that the Xie family instigated the attack. They are joined by Ye Xiaozhen's siblings, who encourage the legal action. Lin Xinghua counters by threatening to report the biological parents for chronic child abuse, presenting evidence of the scars on Ye Xiaozhen's body. The police mediation process begins, pitting the greedy biological family against the protective, albeit poor, in-laws. Ye Xiaozhen uses the legal proceedings to her advantage, leveraging her disability status to shield herself while planning to expose her family's crimes. The story follows her integration into the Xie family, her secret culinary enterprises, and her ongoing battle for justice against those who sought to sell her life for a small sum.