(Alternate universe + transmigration + female lead pursues the male lead and never switches roles)
Main couple: an easygoing, optimistic college student who loves to lie flat vs. a gentle male youth sent down to the countryside
Side couple: a handsome, tragic writer who takes the lead vs. a sharp-tongued receiver who always gets the last word
Mo Zi never expected to join the wave of transmigration stories herself.
Other people transmigrate and either become delicate, helpless little flowers, tormented body and soul as they get caught up in a battle of wills with a law-breaking CEO, or become unhinged, overpowered female side characters who utterly crush their scummy fathers. At worst, they become bystanders who know the plot and shout, “I ship them for real!” at just the right moment.
But she transmigrated to China in the 1970s. No protagonist’s halo, no mind-reading ability, and certainly no transmigration-into-a-book System. All she could rely on was her meager knowledge of the past.
What a mistake! She should have listened to people online when she was scrolling through Douyin and memorized when housing and gold prices would rise. Now she regrets it, but there’s no one to complain to. The things she remembers best are all from after 2019, but by then she’ll be in her seventies or eighties, with nowhere to spend the money she earns.
Worst of all, there are no phones. How is a college student who spends twelve hours a day on Douyin supposed to survive? So she decides to lie flat and wait to die.
But Mo Zi never expected to meet them. She sits bolt upright on her deathbed, thinking, “Wait, maybe I can still be saved.”
Mo Zi remembers seeing a question online: “If you could, would you change your mother’s fate, even if it meant you would cease to exist?”
“I would. Even if the future me no longer existed...”
