Beautiful Woman of the 80s Courtyard

In a post-apocalyptic world plagued by natural disasters, Lu Qiange unexpectedly travels to the 1970s. As soon as she opens her eyes, she falls into a lake. While her fiancé is busy weeping over a damsel in distress, it is the visiting factory representative, Qin Hengzhi, who jumps in to rescue her. The courtyard is buzzing with rumors that the second daughter of the Lu family has gone mad after being jilted. Unbeknownst to them, she possesses the ability to understand the thoughts of animals and manages to navigate her way from being a mediator at the community office to the foreign trade bureau. The missing gold ring of Elder Li from East Alley is hidden in a swallow’s nest under the eaves of the neighboring Qi family’s house, and she even retrieves a national treasure that had been lost for decades from the reed marshes of Red Star Lake. She can extract clues about a leaked blueprint case from a parrot raised by the factory director’s wife. People say that Qin Hengzhi is as cold as ice, with a sharp look in his eyes, yet during his visit to thank the Lu family, he smirks and says, “I’m waiting to collect Lu comrade’s thank-you gift.” It isn’t until their wedding night, when Lu Qiange finds herself pressed against a glass window adorned with wedding characters, that she realizes he has already uncovered all her secrets. Years later, when reporters ask about the couple’s token of love, the previously cold-hearted Qin Hengzhi turns into a devoted husband, softly caressing the yellowed engagement letter, while Lu, the chairman renowned in the business world, adjusts her pearl earrings: “Back then, someone held the drowning damsel and cried, yet my Qin representative jumped into the lake and salvaged an entire business empire—tell me, should this life-saving grace be repaid over a lifetime?”