The Eighties: After Turning My Family Around, I Became a Rich Second-Generation and Took It Easy

[1980s + Rebirth + Family Life + Beloved by the Whole Family + Cozy and Healing + Building Wealth]

After working herself to death, Li Qinglan, the youngest granddaughter of the Li family, decided she needed to live differently.

Rather than exhausting herself to give the whole family a better life, she would inspire them to make their own fortunes and become rich in their own right.

Looking at her surroundings, she saw a house with bare walls and a family known throughout the village as one of the poorest. Then she took a closer look at her parents and siblings: her father cared too much about saving face, her mother was indecisive, her eldest sister had gotten involved with a terrible man, her second brother was too cautious, her third brother had a hot temper, her fourth brother was idle and never studied, and her fifth sister was a self-sacrificing do-gooder.

It wasn’t the best start, but that was all right.

Li Yundong rolled up her sleeves and set about guiding her parents and siblings, one step at a time.

In time, her father landed a government job, her mother opened a breakfast shop, her eldest sister became a rising singer, her second brother became a junior manager at a steel mill, her third brother went into livestock farming, her fourth brother became a construction contractor, and the fifth became a proud schoolteacher. The Li family left their shabby mud-brick house behind, moving into spacious, bright two-story villas. They drove cars and lived in fine homes, while her parents and siblings regularly sent her money to enjoy herself. Li Yundong smiled to herself. Being the family’s darling was so satisfying! Watching the whole family work hard was so satisfying!

(A grounded, down-to-earth life full of warmth and happiness, with no unrealistic overnight fortunes.)