[1970s setting + transmigrate into a book + golden finger + sweet-on-the-surface-but-dark-underneath heroine + making a fortune]
Lin Chu was a college junior and a compulsive novel reader.
This year, she’d become obsessed with stories set in a bygone era. After reading them for a whole semester, she’d nearly run out of novels she liked, and now she was in a reading slump.
Lately, she’d been lying in bed every day, digging through the trash for hidden gems. Last night, she happened upon a particularly deranged novel that made her sick to her stomach. Before she could even complain about it, she was sent into the story on a mission, transmigrating into the body of a cannon-fodder character who barely appeared.
She looked at her frail mother, her young brother, and herself, newly arrived in this world.
Then she looked at her useless “father,” who did nothing but sit around with his legs crossed, and her fists clenched.
It was fine. He could still make money for her.
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At their first meeting, Pei Qingyan found Lin Chu drowning and pulled her ashore. He almost gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. When Lin Chu woke up, they both remembered how people in this era would gossip, and stepped back at the same time.
At their second meeting, Lin Chu went on a blind date at a state-run restaurant. She smiled as gently as a spring breeze the entire time, verbally trounced her date until he was speechless, and left him too embarrassed to show his face for some time. Pei Qingyan thought she looked absolutely stunning.
At their third meeting, Lin Chu returned to Qingshan Commune. Pei Qingyan saw her acting like a queen, beating up her elders. She was nothing like the fragile, warm, lively girl he’d seen before. Instead, she seemed ready to risk her life.
Pei Qingyan admired her and thought that sharing a life with her would be very interesting.
