The global value is depreciating, I will wear it back and take my whole family on a flight!

Shen Ci, a distinguished aerospace researcher who retired at sixty-five after a lifetime of dedication, finds herself unexpectedly transported back to her twenty-year-old self. She awakens in a café in Long City, sitting across from Li Xiao’s mother, who attempts to buy her off with a mere ten yuan check to leave her son. In her previous life, Shen Ci had been naive and deeply in love with Li Xiao, a wealthy young master who eventually stole her academic paper, ruined her career, and drove her to a lonely existence. This time, however, she calmly rejects the money and the relationship, shocking both Li Xiao and his mother with her indifference. As she navigates this new reality, she discovers that the world’s currency has devalued by a factor of ten thousand, meaning her lifetime savings of nearly five million yuan in her old life are now equivalent to over fifty billion yuan in this new economy. Furthermore, she retains access to her bank account through a mysterious "Time-Space Bank" app, securing her financial freedom for the first time in either life.

Shen Ci immediately severs ties with her past. She packs her belongings from the dormitory, discarding all gifts from Li Xiao, and confronts her former roommates, including Yu Xinxin, who had consistently bullied and isolated her. Shen Ci asserts her dominance, slapping Yu Xinxin when provoked and moving into a new dormitory where she meets Gu Lianxing, a wealthy but kind-hearted classmate. Her primary focus shifts to protecting her younger sister, Shen Li, a freshman at a film academy who suffers from low self-esteem due to her family’s past neglect and her own insecurity. Shen Ci uses her vast new wealth to spoil her sister, buying her high-end electronics, luxury clothing, and expensive jewelry, ensuring she never feels inferior again. This act of sisterly devotion marks a significant emotional turning point, as Shen Ci redresses the regrets of her previous life where she had been too consumed by her own struggles to properly support Shen Li.

The narrative introduces Qu Yang, a tall, athletic basketball player and Li Xiao’s roommate, who becomes an incidental observer of Shen Ci’s transformation. Shen Ci encounters him during a livestream incident where she anonymously sends expensive virtual gifts, causing Li Xiao to become enraged and paranoid, suspecting she has moved on to a richer suitor. Li Xiao’s jealousy and possessiveness are further fueled by Yu Xinxin’s manipulative suggestions that Shen Ci is seeing someone else. Meanwhile, Shen Ci continues to build her new life, purchasing luxury real estate and high-end goods without hesitation. She demonstrates her financial power and social confidence by purchasing two villas in a prestigious estate, bypassing a dismissive salesman to support a diligent intern, and later confronting Yu Xinxin again in a public restaurant. When Yu Xinxin accidentally breaks Shen Ci’s expensive Cartier bracelet and attempts to deny its value, Shen Ci calmly calls the police and produces payment records proving the bracelet’s worth, leaving her former tormentors humiliated and powerless against her newfound status and composure.

As the story progresses, Shen Ci establishes herself as an independent, wealthy, and unassailable figure on campus. She rejects the pity and speculation of her peers, focusing instead on her studies and her relationship with her sister. The contrast between her past life of suffering and her current life of luxury and respect is stark. Li Xiao’s attempts to reconcile or investigate her new life are met with cold indifference, while Qu Yang’s growing curiosity about her hints at potential future romantic developments. Shen Ci’s journey is one of reclaiming agency and correcting the injustices of her past, using her second chance and immense wealth to protect those she loves and punish those who wronged her, all while maintaining a calm and calculated demeanor that commands respect from everyone around her.