[Transmigrate into a book + 1970s setting + space + feel-good story with a strong female lead + family squabbles + family comeback]
She opens her eyes to find herself in a rural village in Northeast China in 1975, and damn it, she’s a cannon-fodder character?! Li Xia nearly falls apart on the spot.
Fine, she’s transmigrated, but she’s landed in the “pathetic contrast family” of a period novel about a lucky heroine!
Just look at the lineup: a greedy mother, a father who lies flat, an eldest brother destined to become a good-for-nothing, and a pair of mischievous twin siblings. In the original story, Li Xia’s family are nothing but props to make the “lucky heroine” next door, Lin Nuannuan, look good. Their fate is either prison or begging on the streets. It’s utterly miserable! Who wrote this plot? Come out and take your beating!
Luckily, Heaven still has a conscience and gives her an antique vase with its own space, complete with a spirit spring and fertile black soil. Li Xia is now calm. Cannon fodder? A contrast family? No. Li Xia’s motto is: No one gets to step on me to climb to the top!
“Mom, stop staring at those few steamed corn buns. Wouldn’t it be better to make a fortune ourselves and eat well?”
“Dad, you’re lying flat the wrong way. Get up and earn work points, or there’ll be no food!”
“Big brother, instead of wasting away in the village, why not put in some effort and do something big? You could become a soldier-king one day!”
And those two little brats? “Study hard and make progress every day. Your big sister will make sure you eat well!”
Under Li Xia’s iron-fisted guidance, her hopeless parents and siblings go from resisting her at first to loving the changes. Her lazy dad becomes a model worker, her greedy mom becomes a master chef, her good-for-nothing brother puts on a military uniform, and her mischievous younger siblings become top students and geniuses!
Now that’s the good life! This is what a transmigration heroine should be like!
It's a good start, I'm looking forward to the rest of the story