The Eighties: A Good-Deed Beauty's Guide to Saving Herself

Lin Daiqing transmigrates into an 1980s family-feud novel as its “troublemaking villainess,” the least-loved third daughter of a family of scholars. In the original story, the former occupant is drowned in a pond after envying her elder half-sister’s engagement and framing the male lead. Once she awakens her Merit System, she starts earning merit by doing good deeds: helping an elderly neighbor find her lost chicken earns her a sewing-machine coupon; standing up for a bullied mute girl gets her a book of traditional medicine; even building a shelter for a stray dog wins her grain coupons. Facing a grandfather who favors boys, a cousin-in-law plotting to take her dowry, and Wei Guo, the male lead who wants to break off their engagement, she collects useful rewards with one hand and fires back like a beautiful madwoman with the other. Not only does she change her family’s opinion that “Third Girl is a jinx,” she also turns the man who once couldn’t stand her into a clingy sweetheart, crouching beneath her window with roses.