From the Start in the Famine Year of 1960: Buy Anything for One Cent
开局1960灾荒年，每天一分钱秒杀
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- Completed
- Length
- 2.0M Words
- Genre
- Urban
- Subgenre
- Urban Farming
- Updated
- 9mo ago
- English
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This is an exceptionally good book. The protagonist is wealthy and generous, always willing to help his neighbors. If a neighbor cooks him a few meals a day, he'll give them ten yuan as a token of his appreciation. Other authors should learn from this kind of simple and honest spirit. Although the protagonist only earns 26 yuan a month, he's incredibly generous, and he also has a system, so he's never short of resources.
It's exactly the same as "I Have a Supermarket" from "Crossing 58," except for the name. That book seems to have over a million words.
Okay, here's a simplified novel review of about 100 words: > **Novel Review:** The setting is novel, cleverly blending time travel (1960s), fantasy (Pinduoduo's "one-cent flash sale" system), and historical background. The protagonist uses the system to improve his life, help relatives and friends, and support the country during an era of scarcity; he is portrayed as intelligent and kind.
Simple yet flavorful, keep it up! Keep writing, and it'll get even more exciting when you start writing about things that significantly contribute to national development. After getting married, something always feels off. It's almost chapter 800, and it's still all about trivial matters every day. You need to make bigger contributions and changes, not come here to marry a wife!
Holy Father, Great Holy Father, truly a supreme Holy Father. Even Bodhisattvas would yield their thrones to him. He casually takes out hundreds or thousands of grains, giving them away by the dozens of kilograms at a time. He gives them to everyone he meets.
This monumental work is truly a masterpiece, every word a gem, a refreshing and delightful read. The author's writing is fluent and captivating, as if each sentence contains profound thought and rich emotion. The article is structurally rigorous and logically clear, each paragraph perfectly serving the theme, allowing readers to easily follow the author's train of thought and deeply appreciate…
Awesome! I want to see more, I love watching! Give me more! It's easy to watch, not melodramatic, and not heart-wrenching.
Wasn't Uncle San a teacher? How did he become a fitter?
It's pretty good, except the prices must have collapsed, right? There are basically no villains or melodramatic events in the book; they're all poor people struggling to make ends meet. I wonder which courtyard the protagonist lives in; it's always "49" or "56." And that guy from the same village who got the job at the steel mill—sometimes he's called Daping, sometimes Dawei.
It's alright, but a bit too generous. I couldn't stand the part about picking up a child; she's not even married yet, and she's already picking up a kid. Then I saw the part about making instant noodles. I really couldn't watch that; they invented things way too fast.