CompletedLin Shuyin wakes up to find herself transmigrated to the 1970s as an 18-year-old high school senior about to graduate. She's stressed—without a job, she'll be sent to the countryside, something she dreads.
Suddenly, bullet screens appear before her eyes:
"Honestly, Lin Shuyin, you'd be better off going to the countryside. At least then, you wouldn’t meet that scumbag husband Zhou Jianguo and everything that follows."
"Sigh! Second Sister Lin’s life is truly tragic. Before marriage, her parents didn’t love her. After marriage, her husband turned out to be an abusive cheater who ended up with her younger sister, driving her to death."
Lin Shuyin: "Huh?"
Only then does she realize she's transmigrated into a family drama novel called The Lin Family’s Children.
In the original plot, Lin Shuyin is introduced to Zhou Jianguo, the wealthy son of a factory director, by her eldest sister. Initially, life seems good—Zhou Jianguo provides her and her younger brother with jobs, showers her family with benefits, and even offers high bride price money to her parents.
However, the good times don't last. Zhou Jianguo cheats, becomes abusive, and eventually gets involved with Lin Shuyin’s younger sister, driving her to her death in fury.
Faced with limited choices—either go to the countryside or marry into trouble—Lin Shuyin questions the system:
"Are these my only options?"
The system responds: "No, there’s another way."
Task 1: Save a drowning child, and you'll be rewarded with a good job.
With this, Lin Shuyin joins a military arts troupe.
Task 2: Find a man to marry, and you'll earn 10,000 yuan.
For the sake of "love" (not really), Lin Shuyin finds an upright and highly-rated soldier in the military and marries him.
But then, the bullet screens take a surprising turn:
"Wait, the male lead Shen Guannan got married? What about our female lead?!"