Waking Up in the 1970s, Chasing a Down-on-His-Luck Bigshot to the Countryside to Live a Blessed Life

Sheng Jinhe, a top intelligence agent from the modern era, transmigrates into the body of an eighteen-year-old woman in 1970s China. She finds herself in the role of a cannon fodder fiancée in a novel she had previously skimmed. In the original story, this character was a foolish woman who selflessly gave her job and spatial ability to the female lead, Yao Manman, only to be manipulated into a staged drowning incident that resulted in her death. This tragedy allowed the male lead, Lin Helian, and Yao Manman to unite, while the original Sheng Jinhe’s grandfather died of grief six months later, leaving the family estate to be seized by Sheng Jinhe’s nominal father, Sun Ke, and his new family.

Upon waking in the moat after falling in, Sheng Jinhe is rescued by a mysterious, injured man named Li Zhanye. She realizes she has the opportunity to change her fate. Instead of playing the victim, she reverses the script. When Yao Manman attempts to drag her into the river to frame her, Sheng Jinhe pushes Yao Manman in instead. She uses her skills to strike pressure points with stones, causing both Lin Helian and Yao Manman to suffer without leaving visible marks. The incident is witnessed by her friends, who expose the couple’s affair. Sheng Jinhe’s grandfather, Sheng Li, a respected factory director, immediately cancels the engagement and demands a written guarantee from the Yao family, ensuring Yao Manman is blamed for any future harm to Sheng Jinhe.

Sheng Jinhe is hospitalized with a fever, a ruse to retrieve her stolen spatial ability. She discovers that the spatial ring, which contained a magical companion named He Miao and a villa, was worn around Yao Manman’s neck. She successfully steals it back, causing the space to expand into a vast agricultural world. He Miao reveals it can produce crops and purify water, solving the food shortages of the era. Sheng Jinhe uses the space to heal her body and prepare for the future. She also confronts her nominal father, Sun Ke, gathering photographic evidence of his infidelity and secret family to secure her legal standing and protect her grandfather.

Learning that Li Zhanye, the man who saved her, belongs to the powerful Li family which is about to be exiled to the countryside, Sheng Jinhe decides to follow him. She views this not as a hardship but as an opportunity to build a life with a future military powerhouse. She prepares supplies, seeds, and funds, enlisting her friends to help her transition. She plans to leave the capital, using her father’s misconduct as a pretext to go to the countryside for “re-education.” Her goal is to establish herself in the rural area, utilize her spatial abilities to accumulate wealth and resources, and support Li Zhanye as he rises in the military ranks. The story follows her strategic dismantling of her enemies, her recovery of stolen assets, and her decisive move to shape her own destiny alongside her chosen partner.