Did I pick up the wrong script? What’s with being the tragic heroine of a 1970s drama?
Li Shulan wakes up to find she’s got the wrong script. The original owner worked herself to death supporting the whole family, only for her younger siblings to turn out ungrateful, her boyfriend to be a mama’s boy, and her younger sister’s mother-in-law to treat her like a free grain warehouse.
Who wouldn’t lose it?
The former executive at a foreign company tears up the script on the spot. “What do you mean, the typical heroine of a period drama? I’m done putting up with this!”
She tears into her scumbag mama’s boy boyfriend, kicks her younger sister’s parasitic mother-in-law to the curb, and gets the three little ones in her family to fall in line.
She thinks she can lie flat at the print factory until the college entrance exams, but a casual translation of a few pages of English instruction manuals catches the attention of the municipal industry bureau.
Officials: Comrade Li is a real talent!
Coworkers: Sister Li was hiding her skills!
Antagonists: Who is this woman, anyway?
A gentle, dependable big sister on the outside, full of modern jokes on the inside.
A model worker, politically committed and reliable, by day; secretly cramming for the college entrance exams by night.
Her younger siblings think their big sister has finally come to her senses, never realizing she’s already mapped out her future in detail:
Go to college, build a career, get promoted, earn more, and live a prosperous life.
Get married? No, thanks. Self-interested women like me aren’t looking for that.
The toughest woman of the 1970s is coming online today.
Everyone at the print factory: Comrade Li is someone you can count on. She’ll really show up when there’s trouble.
Li Shulan: Don’t ask. I’m serving the people (crossed out), striving for myself.
【Everyday life in the 1970s + double life + big shot pretending to be a nobody + a major “you’ll love it in the end” alert】
