Back to 1998: Instead of Pushing My Kids, I Push My Parents

[1990s setting + everyday family life + slightly slow-paced + feel-good wish fulfillment + a touch of ensemble cast]

[If real life can't make my parents financially independent, then I'll make them first-generation millionaires in a novel!]

One ordinary night in 2026, 43-year-old Liu Xiangyan fell asleep in her rented apartment. When she opened her eyes again, she was lying in the familiar wooden bed of the tiled house back in her hometown.

Outside, her mother was calling to the pigs as she fed them. The sweet aroma of sweet potato porridge drifted from the kitchen, while the clanging of her father mending farm tools rang out from the main room next door.

In her previous life, she had gone south to work in an electronics factory, then bounced from job to job as a junior clerk. At 43, she was still single and renting, with no savings. Her father died of lung cancer while she was still working overtime. Her mother stayed in their hometown until she was utterly worn out. Chen Yuzhuang, her middle-school deskmate and the man she had secretly loved for twenty years, died a hero while serving the people. Her best friend jumped to her death from a pyramid-scheme den. Her cousin was beaten and permanently disabled by her gambling-addict husband...

In this life, she would make up for every regret. But,

She wasn't going to wear herself out by endlessly pushing everyone else.

She would teach her honest, simple father to drive and haul freight;

She would drag her mother, who only wanted to farm, into the city to set up a stall and run a small business;

Her eldest brother, second brother, and fourth younger sister would all get a chance...

And while she was at it, she'd put the alcoholic, gambling father of the man she'd secretly loved in her previous life in his place...