In the Nineties, I Exposed My Relatives' Scandals and Became a Top-Tier Star at the Newspaper

【1990s setting + ensemble cast elements + workplace wish-fulfillment + vicious relatives tearing into each other + obsessive male lead + romantic rivalry】 “Welcome to the 1990s. There’s no family love here, only traffic!” And a bunch of men who’ll go crazy over you. Chen Yu is an elite graduate who returned from the UK, but in 1998 she’s just a struggling reporter at a newspaper in Guangcheng. Until she realizes that her outrageous relatives are the stepping stones to her career taking off! Her great-uncle dies suddenly at forty? She writes “The Mystery of a Middle-Aged Man’s Sudden Death: Medical Malpractice or Murder?” overnight, setting off a citywide frenzy of discussion! Her grandmother secretly sells the family’s heirloom silverware? Her in-depth report, “How to Be a Brother-Enabling Sister: Draining Your Husband’s Savings to Support Your Younger Brother,” racks up over a million views! Her second great-uncle keeps a mistress? Her column, “An Old Man’s Second Spring: How Much Does It Cost to Go from Wife to Mistress?” leaves the newspaper’s phone lines jammed! Her third great-uncle runs a feng shui scam? Her undercover report, “The Fortunes of a Fraudulent Fortune-Teller: How to Earn Over Ten Thousand a Month Through Superstition,” brings the police to his door! “Chen Yu! You’re even ripping off your own family?” “Ripping you off? I’m making you famous!” From a rookie editor earning 850 yuan a month to a star reporter making a million a year, she wields her pen to turn her family’s scandals into viral hits, driving all of Guangcheng wild! 〖The early story focuses on her career. The romance comes later.〗 Until that man appears. He smiles as he cuts the tape from her interview recorder. “Writing about other people is so boring. Why not… write about me?” (And you’ll soon discover he isn’t the only lunatic around.)