Lin Zhi transmigrates into a period novel called The Little Lucky Star of the 1970s.
The heroine is her cousin, Lin Wan, born under a lucky star. She brings good fortune to her husband and family, finds money on the street, meets benefactors whenever she falls into water, and eventually marries into the city to become an official’s wife.
Lin Zhi, meanwhile, is the novel’s doomed foil. Her parents die under mysterious circumstances, her uncle’s family swallows up all their property, and she’s eventually married off to a lame old bachelor who beats her to death in a pigsty.
The original Lin Zhi dies by smashing her head against a gravestone. The book brushes it off in one sentence: “That Lin girl was unlucky too.”
Lin Zhi awakens an infinite storage space in front of her parents’ graves and lets out a cold laugh. Unlucky? She’ll see who really has no luck.
Lin Wan finds an antique jade beneath a locust tree? Lin Zhi digs it up first. Lin Wan saves an educated youth and earns good karma? Lin Zhi brings a doctor over ahead of time. Lin Wan falls into the water and gets rescued by the male lead? Lin Zhi pulls her ashore and sends him on his way.
Relatives try to seize the ancestral home? She clears out her uncle’s house down to the last penny. Her third great-uncle occupies the family home? She posts the deed on the wall and tells him to pay up before he can come in. Her aunt tries to trade her for a bride price? Lin Zhi has the prospective groom chase her aunt all over the village.
Later, Lin Wan stands before her and asks, “Zhi, do you hate me?”
Lin Zhi replies, “I don’t hate you. I just refuse to accept my fate.”
She steals one by one the opportunities meant for her lucky-star cousin, only to discover that the “092” fragments her parents left behind conceal a far greater secret than she ever imagined…
They didn’t die of illness. They were silenced.
And behind Lin Wan’s lucky-star destiny lies the real secret of the novel.
That day, Lin Zhi takes out the antique jade and weighs it in her hand. She has no intention of giving it back.
She’ll use it to pry the truth open.
Why is this writing technique used? This is not the first time I have seen it. It sounds awkward and a bit stiff to read. The plot is okay, the content is average, the characters are pretty good, and the protagonist solves the same puzzles. The cousin writes as if she is sick, and the people around her are like NPCs. The protagonist doesn't seem to know anything about her unless she exposes them. She only clings to Lin Wan and praises Lin Wan for being true, kind and beautiful 🤦 🤦 It's so weird, and the space is also weird. Is the thing left by the protagonist's parents something from this era? It's very mysterious. Not a cool article. I don't feel anything about being slapped in the face, I just feel that it's amazing, and the people inside are all amazing.