The System Pushes Me to Build a Career, but I Pick the Wrong Target

Ding! Host mission: Help the cold-faced village chief Gu Mingxuan make a name for himself. Once he succeeds, you can return to the modern world!

Shen Qinghe wakes up to find herself a sent-down youth in a settlement in the northwestern countryside in the 1970s. She is the troublesome girl everyone despises, too weak to carry a shoulder pole or lift a hand. Faced with barren yellow earth, coarse-grain buns, and grueling labor, the modern woman is on the verge of breaking down.

Her only golden finger, the Career Support System, gives her an absurd mission: win over that ice-cold village chief?!

Determined to get home, Shen Qinghe grits her teeth and works hard. She starts literacy classes, experiments with seedling cultivation, and organizes a women’s sewing group to earn extra income... She turns a tragic life story into a tale of career success.

Her accomplishments catch the village chief Gu Mingxuan’s attention, and the System’s “merit points” rise. But her gaze keeps drifting to Lu Chenzhou, a quiet young man sent down to the countryside because of his family background, who always appears with a helping hand when she is at her lowest.

The System’s alarm blares: “Warning! Incorrect emotional link target! Correct immediately!”

One step forward means the “bright future” laid out by the System and a place as the village chief’s wife. One step back means a “forbidden romance” condemned by the world amid the tides of the era, and a plunge into an abyss of ruin.

Holding the warm eggs Lu Chenzhou secretly slipped her, Shen Qinghe smiles. “Whoever wants this mission can do it themselves!”

This is the epic coming-of-age story of a young sent-down woman who, caught up in the System and swept along by the tides of her time, holds true to herself and chooses her person, her work, and her era.