Gossip in the 1980s: My Sharp-Tongued Professor

After waking up one day, Jiang Lili, a 40-year-old corporate drone dreaming of retirement, finds herself as a cannon-fodder supporting female character in a story set in a bygone era, about to be sent to the countryside.

Faced with awful relatives and parents pressuring her to marry, Jiang Lili brings out her new brain with a photographic memory and draws up a college entrance exam study plan.

Stay in the city? Get into college? Do scientific research? And enjoy all the juicy live-action drama involving reborn heroines, military wives, and insincere white-lotus girls along the way!

Her life plan is crystal clear, except for one little detour in her marriage plans.

To silence the gossip, she sets her sights on Shen Yan, a mathematician from a poor family with a strange temper and a tongue sharp enough to max out its skill tree.

The neighbors shake their heads. "Has that girl lost her mind? He's one of the stinking intellectuals. That's a living hell!"

Jiang Lili chuckles to herself. You wouldn't understand. This is angel investing, buying in at the bottom!

Their married life is even more unusual.

While other couples are all sweetness and affection, they compete in the lab. While other families fuss over everyday trifles, they watch the era-novel protagonists put on a show in real time.

The reborn heroine wants to get rich? Shen Yan frowns. "Her business logic is full of holes. I suggest she retake elementary school math."

The military-wife heroine has a misunderstanding? Jiang Lili munches on sunflower seeds. "I've seen this tragic romance plot before. She'll jump into a river next episode."

The white-lotus heroine tries to frame someone? Professor Shen immediately tosses out an "Intelligence Test Report." "I recommend isolation to prevent contagion."

When Jiang Lili and her sharp-tongued professor husband quietly get things done from the front lines of the gossip, and accidentally present their research achievements at a national defense awards ceremony, they finally realize they've become the greatest legendary background characters in every era novel ever written!