The story takes place in 1975, the last year of Cultural revolution, the last year of Mao's life, just two years before university admission exams will begin and the economy will open up.

There are two couples in that historical novel. The main couple (the hero and the heroine) and the side couple, i.e. The villainess and her husband. The villainess is an educated youth and her husband is a soldier, a non biological son of a peasant family.

The villainess lives in a village and her soldier husband dies when he is sent away to provide relief to the flooded region in another province. She becomes a bitter widow.

The hero of that novel is her childhood friend whom she had crush upon since forever. Her marriage to the soldier was a fake marriage anyways. So the villainous widow interferes between the hero and the heroine and is punished by both of them, sent to prison (in the historical novel).

So, this is the world of the novel that our FL transmigrates into and that is the future that awaits her - prison! She is now a city girl sent to the countryside to work in the fields who just received the news that her soldier husband was missing, most likely dead, and she finds herself in her in-laws house.

The plot twist here is that her soldier husband is reborn in this timeline, he returns! And now two strangers will begin their life journey together.

There are several characters in that novel who get to live twice and know the future to some extent.

(1) The heroine of the historical novel is reborn after her first marriage in 1970s failed, so after rebirth she cancels that marriage and gets together with the hero. Her unfaithful husband is also reborn!

(2) The FL dies in modern times and transmigrates into the villainess.

(3) The soldier husband of the villainess dies in the flood, his soul roams for ten years observing the villainess and the rest of his family and then he is reborn at the moment of his death in the flood. He comes back home determined to protect his wife from becoming the villainess, pursuing the hero and ending up in a prison. He observed her for ten years while being a ghost, so he notices right away that his wife is different. Even her handwriting is different.

actually 3 reborn HAHAHA LOL

so Qin Lingling is same as Gu Yao (Gu Zheng's sister) as they had biological father + stepmother. THE RIDICULOUS THING > so QLL's stepmother come to QLL for abduct QLL to be married disabled man. Of course, GZ come to rescue but QLL's stepmother do not want to lose the opportunity to get money from the couple. SHE JUST REALLY VILLAIN AS LIKE GZ's STEPMOTHER LOL (Li Dani) AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE RIDICULOUS THING IS? GZ ask her little bother to tell Li Dani to confront QLL's stepmother! THE AUTHOR EVEN WRITE LI DANI MONOLOG > Li Dani thinking that QLL's stepmother is digusting as want to marry QLL to crippled man. EXCUSE ME, EVEN YOU WILL MARRY GU YAO FOR MONEY! Li Dani thinking that she better than QLL's stepmother LIKE HOW U DARE TO THINK THAT. Sorry I'm little insane with this ridiculous episode.

In the 1st chapter: Original owner had a miserable married life where she tragically died and got reborn and cancelled the marriage. Met the male lead, fell in love with male lead but Male lead had another white moon light and then she became villain who was also very pitiful and at the end she was in prison and died. So Original owner lived two lifetimes?

In the 2nd chapter: Original owner is in love with her husband who died. So Original owner's 1st lifetime husband who? And it says her husband's death is the reason of her blackening. Like so after her husband died she fell in love with another man who is the male lead or what?

And even if it was true, where is the cancelled marriage? To whom was marriage cancelled. Her dead husband? What? It says her husband went on mission few days after marriage and then he died. So how did she have a awful marriage and died tragically? And if this wasn't the 1st lifetime husband, then did she get married to her husband after rebirth in which her husband died and committed su*cide after jumping in the river and our MC came about? What the heck in going on?

My mind is all jumbled up here

So the book was about reborn female lead who had tragic arrived 1st life and met male lead. And original female lead was the white moonlight of male lead from city who went to countryside as educated youth, got married there for some reason and had a soft spot for her husband but he died and she suffered from injustice there had a pitiful life and blackened as a result. After hearing news of her husband's death she tried to su*cide by jumping in river and then she was saved but MC came about.

Somebody mentioned that the FL did not do anything to the people who caused the original to blacken. But I agree with the FL, instead of punishing them, they improved and redeemed themselves, especially the ML's younger brother which has the best character development. Because they were not really evil, they were still young and it's not right to punish someone for something they haven't done yet. And they changed themselves with a little push from the FL. Sometimes you just have to change your perspective to see that you don't have to make people miserable for you to be happier