Shu Yue died after being poisoned by her daughter, Cheng Hui. On her deathbed, Cheng Hui revealed that she was not her biological child but the daughter of Cheng Jing’en and Huang Fang. The babies had been swapped at birth. Shu Yue’s own son had drowned at three or four years old, and the entire Shu family, including her aging relatives, was poisoned together. Overcome with hatred and despair, Shu Yue breathed her last.She awakened in excruciating pain, as if in childbirth, and recognized that she had returned to the day she gave birth. While still weak, she heard Huang Fang and her mother plotting to exchange Huang Fang’s newborn daughter for Shu Yue’s son. They had induced Shu Yue’s premature labor by scattering beans at her door and had starved her to keep her unconscious. Now, as Huang Fang hesitated, her mother urged her to hurry. Shu Yue forced her eyes open and saw them approaching. She slapped both mother and daughter, accusing them of child swapping and intentional injury. She threatened to report them to the Public Security Bureau. Huang Fang and Mother Huang panicked and tried to intimidate her with her status as a Capitalist Miss, but Shu Yue refused to back down. Weak from childbirth, she let them leave, then bolted the door and held her son, vowing to protect him.Shu Yue’s life had been defined by her background. She was the daughter of a wealthy capitalist family. After her mother died and her father remarried, she was raised by her maternal grandfather and grandmother. When the family faced political persecution, they arranged for her to go to the countryside as an educated youth to spare her the worst. They divided their savings and valuables among the younger generation. Alone in Heilongjiang Province, a fellow educated youth named Sun Qing exposed her family’s capitalist background, branding her a Capitalist Young Lady. The villagers ostracized her and subjected her to constant harassment. One afternoon, a local troublemaker, Li Lao San, tried to assault her. She fled and fell into a river. He pursued her, intending to take advantage of her in the water, but a soldier, Cheng Jingchuan, arrived and kicked him away, then dove in to save her. On the bank, he performed first aid, pressing on her chest. The villagers gossiped, and Li Lao San’s mother demanded that Shu Yue marry her son, claiming she had been compromised. Desperate to escape a worse fate, Shu Yue turned to Cheng Jingchuan and declared that he had hugged and touched her and must marry her. Cheng Jingchuan angrily said he was only saving her, but Shu Yue forced the marriage, knowing she needed protection.Thus she became the daughter-in-law of the Cheng family, where her background earned her contempt. Her husband was the second son, while the eldest son was Cheng Jing’en, married to Huang Fang. The Cheng family valued sons over daughters. When Shu Yue was about to give birth, her parents-in-law left to attend the youngest son’s wedding in the city, leaving only Huang Fang and her mother to “help.” In her previous life, the child swap succeeded. Shu Yue woke to find a baby girl beside her. She raised that girl, Cheng Hui, with love and sacrifice, exchanging her own clothes for rice soup to feed her. Yet that girl grew up to poison her entire family. The son she had borne was given to Huang Fang and died young. Now, having scuttled the swap, Shu Yue held her son, a healthy boy. She reflected on the past: her maternal uncles who sheltered her, the division of family assets, the months of isolation in the village, the river rescue, and the forced marriage that brought her to this point.She knew that in the previous life she had been too weak and trusting, which led to her death and her family’s destruction. Now, she was determined to change everything. She would protect her son with her life, expose the crimes of Huang Fang and her mother, and seek justice for herself and those she lost. The road ahead was dangerous. She was isolated on the edge of the village with no neighbors to call, and the Cheng family would likely side with the eldest daughter-in-law. But Shu Yue was no longer the same woman. She had the knowledge of what happened before and the resolve to fight. She would raise her son to be strong, and she would make all her enemies pay. Holding her sleeping child in her arms, Shu Yue planned her course of action. The rebirth was a gift, and she intended to use every moment to forge a new destiny for herself and her son.
