An Ancient-Era Orphan Girl's Cutthroat Life in the 1970s

[Historical era + ancient-to-modern transmigration + healing + family life + top student + embroidery]

Lu Er was an orphan in the Great Zhou dynasty, with neither father nor mother.

At six, she entered the prefectural charity home.

At ten, she was lucky enough to be taken on as an apprentice by an auntie at an embroidery workshop.

For the next eight years, she worked tirelessly to hone her craft, all while saving money and striving for promotions and a raise.

At last, at eighteen, she bought a little courtyard of her own.

She had a home!

But the very next day, as Lu Er and the embroidery workshop auntie were on their way to deliver new clothes to the prefect’s residence, the horse pulling their carriage suddenly bolted. Lu Er’s head struck the back wall of the carriage…

When she woke again, Lu Er had become a six-year-old girl in China in the 1970s!

Lu Er looked up at the sky and wept. Her house! Her courtyard! She hadn’t even lived in it yet!

But here,

she had parents, brothers, and sisters.

And girls here could go to school alongside boys. Of course she had to go!

She had a skill, too. She’d earn money. She would make money!

As the years passed, the block of ice in Lu Er’s heart slowly melted through the love of family, relatives, friends, and neighbors. When she finally came of age, she was still herself…