The 1970S: I Wanted to Coast, So How Did I Become a Top-Level Mogul?

“The following reprimand is for Lin An'an, archive room administrator, for repeatedly leaving her post and knitting sweaters during work hours...” At the factory-wide meeting, the discipline officer reads out the punishment through a megaphone. In the last row, Lin An'an yawns, changes position, and continues knitting her red sweater. “Bang!” The meeting hall doors are flung open. Director Yang rushes onto the stage, his face flushed. He snatches the microphone and roars, “Reprimand my ass! The provincial bureau just called. That technical manual Lin An'an wrote on a whim has cut the factory's malfunction rate by 67 percent! We're first in the whole province! Anyone who lays a finger on her will have to deal with me! Give her a first-class merit award at once!” The people below, who had been looking forward to a good laugh, are all stunned. Lin An'an covers her ears in distress. What a pain. I only wanted to keep everyone from bothering me during my nap, and now I've been promoted again? I need to clock out right at five! After dying suddenly, top industrial designer Lin An'an is reborn as the downtrodden third daughter in a 1970s family that favors boys over girls. Her whole family pressures her to go to the countryside in her younger brother's place. Instead, she sends him off on the educated youth train and gets into the factory's most laid-back department, the archives. She thinks she can drink tea and knit sweaters until retirement, but then...