Found-family favorite + period setting + entrepreneurship + sweet romance
On the very day she was born, Shen Nuo's grandfather, who favored boys over girls, was egged on by someone to bury her alive.
As she teetered on the brink of death, a "ding" sounded in Shen Nuo's mind: the Time Archive System had come online.
Whenever she catalogued an antique, a collector from another time and space would lavish her with "Time Points": two thousand for a tape recorder, a few hundred for an enamel mug. The more an item stirred up his childhood regrets, the more outrageous the reward.
The points could be exchanged at the Archive Pavilion for blueprints from the future, rice, flour, fabric, and mechanical core technology decades ahead of its time.
And so the little girl who had nearly been buried became the apple of her whole family's eye.
Her mother, empowered by the System, sold glutinous rice cakes and worked as a translator, rising from a village woman to a businesswoman. Her father gave up teaching to study, going from substitute teacher to scholar at Jinghua University. Her aunt opened a restaurant and became a queen of the food industry, while her uncle went from street punk to chairman of a machinery company. As for Shen Nuo herself, she ranked first in her class, made a name for herself with wedding dresses, and stunned international audiences with a statue of Chang'e.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
