The Little Drama Queen of the Seventies: At Five, I Sell Off My Stepmother

A 32-year-old modern sales champion opens her eyes and finds herself transmigrated into the body of Li Daya, the most miserable five-year-old burden in Kaoshan Village in the 1970s.

As soon as she wakes up, her awful stepmother is gleefully holding a sack, ready to trade her for a sack of cornmeal and a ten-yuan bride price.

No pocket dimension, no System, no spiritual spring? No problem! With a sales champion's silver tongue and a quick, clever mind, Li Xinghe instantly puts on an act and clings to her stepmother's leg, sobbing, “Mom! A human trafficker has his eye on you! He says he'll pay fifty yuan to buy you too and take you deep into the mountains to have sons. He says your wide hips mean you're good at having babies!”

The next moment, the lustful trafficker carries off her stepmother, while five-year-old Li Xinghe pockets the ten yuan and claims her first windfall after transmigrating into a book!

From banging gongs and drums at the village entrance to welcome her stepmother “home from eloping,” to serving troublesome relatives who show up looking for handouts a soup made with laxative beans and wild greens; from scavenging for antiques among junk to leasing barren hills and starting a pig farm, Li Xinghe not only turns her spineless father into a man who can stand up for himself, she also talks all of Kaoshan Village into becoming the richest village in the province!

But why is that proud, aloof childhood sweetheart from next door, who was sent down to the countryside, looking at her more and more strangely?

“Li Xinghe, I don't care if you swindle other people, but why did you shortchange the accounts by two mao?” Her childhood sweetheart blocks the door with an abacus. “Come to my room tonight. I'll teach you how to balance the books, one step at a time.”

Li Xinghe: “That'll cost extra!”